I learned my lesson after my last flight at the gliding club at Kingsfield, Cyprus. The CFI took me for an aeros flight, and we/he only just managed to get back up to airfield level from below the cliff at the western end of the runway.
A well known tale in Detmold of a boss on his last flight....spanked in
My how we laughed. Couldn't have happened to a better bloke. T****er.