More circuits today so we headed off to the training area at Bradfield. Now Bradfield only has one runway and because one end is heavily wooded, I had to land with a 10-12 kt cross wind that was blowing slightly from behind. On short final I kept to the centre line but because of the slight tail wind I was going to over-shoot so I powered on and went around again.
The next time around I got it in with a bit of buffeting as we came down through the tree's but the landing was ok. We did another seven landings and another aborted landing, but out of the eight landings we did I would say considering the conditions two were good, three were ok and three were a bit hairy but none were hard or bouncers.
We then headed back to Lynfield for a slightly on the nose cross wind power on short field landing. For the first time I got the airspeed and attitude working together and some slight power adjustments got us nicely over the fence but then I stuffed up by pulling the power off as we crossed over the fence, then I dropped the nose, rounded out, flared and put it on the ground.
At debriefing I was told in no uncertain terms how dangerous it was pulling the power off early but I was told I did save the situation by dropping the nose when I did.
Next time I will remember the power doesn't come off till I flare.
I'm starting to feel the landings are more controlled and not something that happens with some control.
T/T 7.5 hrs
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