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Old 4th Oct 2016, 10:34
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engineno9
 
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June 19th 2013, Gillespie Field, San Diego, C152, N757CD

The most calm, clear California day you could imagine, 3 circuits with the instructor and back to parking. Off he goes and it's my turn to start up/taxi on my own for 1 circuit with full stop landing.

Instructor did actually give me a heads up about the vastly increased climb performance but I still remember being surprised at the magnitude of the improvement.

Managed to make a perfectly stable approach, bang on speed and came down right over the numbers but started to flare too high, instinctively pushed the nose down again, picked up some speed as a result, and then flared again at a more suitable height but floated for what seemed like forever with the extra speed before touching down with a fair old thud.

Absolutely dripping with sweat by the end of it but a great feeling. And it didn't matter about the perspiration as I subsequently had a large bucket of icy-cold water thrown over me, as was protocol at the school in question.
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