Balls. Not a bad one today, just a frustrating one.
Another beautiful CAVOK day but my head just wasn't on right. We were doing a different circuit direction, this one very tight due to noise abatement. It's been my bogey circuit since the start and for some bleeding reason I just can't get configured properly on it. The turn to final is at about 400ft and where as the opposite circuit is wide with a late configuration, this one you have to get set up and start losing height immediately after the base turn, and I'm consistently WAY too high leaving me gliding it in steeply. Every single time.
Did 3 landings with FI, all sketchy, hard, with misjudged flares, but ultimately safe. Tried my first proper glide approach which was ok but again, put it down hard.
Nothing felt right. Felt nervy. Even my seat was giving me backache. We noticed fog all the way along the coast which was moving very slowly inland - but still an easy 6-7 miles away. So my instructor told me to land and do as many circuits as I wanted for about an hour, but to watch the fog and to come in if I felt uncomfortable.
So up I went, all was fine, but on downwind I saw the fog visibly moving, although still 5-6 miles away.
I think I was being massively overcautious but I radioed that the fog was creeping in and I decided to put down after a single circuit (still effing high leaving me doing final on idle, but landed it nicely). I'm almost positive I could've kept going and would have had time to get down if the fog started moving in fast, but I flapped a bit and just decided to call it a day. And still not a cloud in the sky on the airfield. Queue of students about to go up. I felt like a right idiot.
So... back home. I live on the coast and thought I'd dust myself down and work in the sun in the garden this afternoon. Except it's too foggy.