I take it all back!
0900 today, cold dense air, no wind, bright sunshine, my instructor says "I'll authorise you for solo consolidation today, off you go"!
The tired old 172 climbs like a rocket, she really wants to be up here this morning. I'm the only one in the circuit, it's like my own private world in the air for the first few minutes... No t/gs, just low approaches and g/a since the grass has had such a hammering so I get to fly uninterrupted for two and a quarter hours with only one landing and departure in the middle "for practice" How can people say that circuits are boring? Today was PERFECT.