Because conditions were not good for doing circuits today, Kev (my instructor) told me that we were going to do some steep turns and see how we go doing some gusting cross wind landings.
From memory I can not remember ever doing a landing with the wind on the nose, all of my landings have been in some form of cross winds but today has been the worst gusting cross wind I have had to handle. At times trying to keep on centre line on final it felt like we were side slipping in. But over all I believe the landings were good, considering the conditions and the fact the airfield is a cleared strip through the bush which made things a little interesting once we got down below the tree tops.
We did the steep turns first and they went well once I got used to pulling back on the stick as hard as you need to, then we headed off to Bradfield (pictured) to do the cross winds.
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We also practiced a forced landing before heading home. When we arrived back at Lynfield we did a power on short field cross wind landing.
All in all it was a good learning curve today. It was challenging doing the gusting cross wind landings down through the trees, but I'm happy with how I did.
T/T 8.4 hrs
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