Thanks for all your feedback guys, some good stuff for me to think about. My instructor keeps mentioning the amount of bumps and knocks the early 70's cherokee has had, it doesn't like flying straight, which I can notice from little experience I have on other aircraft. The problem with my airfield is there is nearly ALWAYS a cross wind and quite a strong one at that, so my approaches I find always require lots of input from me, which if I'm honest at my low skill level gets a little bit too much.
But as it has been said many times before, practice, practice, practice and more practice
