Like the other posters have said - good for you for sorting it out and getting her back in the air again
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I hate touch and go's since I came in to do a couple some months ago (having not done any for a bit) and, in the PA28, on touchdown veered sharply off to the left, heading straight for the grass edge of the runway. I brought her back to the centre of the runway, had a mental blank (for what seemed like an eternity) about how much flap to use on take-off and then finally realised I hadn't applied full power.
It was VERY late by the time I rotated
and I squeaked over the trees at the end.
I have been extremely wary of doing touch and gos since.
The two things I learnt?
1) Know what you're going to do before you do it (i.e. I should have rehearsed in my mind well ahead of touchdown exactly what I was going to do - hopefully I would have avoided the mental blank)
2) Don't feel the need to press on with a maneuver if its safer to stop.
Hey ho.....the learning goes on!
