Friday 6th Feb
Well today started off looking good with a light south/south easterly and a few clouds drifting across the blue sky. I was excited and looking forward to a lesson without that strong cross wind creating wind sheer,mechanical turbulance and sink down amongst the trees.
I did all the pre-take off procedures, checked out the aircraft etc then we strapped in and got airbourne.
We had a slight tail wind to the training area and as we were going to be landing on r/w 36 that also meant we would have a slight tailwind on final. I joined circuit on cross wind and turned onto downwind and noticed a little bit of drift and adjusted my course for it, turned onto base picked the position to bring the throttle back to idle, turned onto short final and soon realised I must have had a good tail wind because I was going to over-shoot so I powered on and went around again. So that set the theme for the rest of the lesson, trying to control a bucking bronco down through the trees and onto the ground.
Fortunately the paddocks up-wind were clear of scrub so we also practiced a couple of engine failures on take-off and called it a day and headed home.
T/T 9.3 hrs
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