Lol, thank you! Yeah my wife asked the same thing… ‘why does he keep bracing himself?’
It’s a weird circuit this one btw. Because there are several noise abatement areas the circuit is like a normal circuit rotated thro 90 degrees, elongated out in the crosswind direction. The turn to crosswind happens at about 200ft or 3 if I annoy the villagers, and with two people means you’re usually still climbing into the downwind leg, and can’t get configured until your almost on top of the final turn. And instead of it being at 5/600 ft, it’s about 7 or 800 feet. It’s tricky and feels like a lot of judging by feel and by landmarks.
Good though, keeps you away from the instruments and out of the cockpit. I’m enjoying it immensely. I’m hoping after next week that’ll be my mandated 2 hours solo circuits done though (or is it 3?) and I can get a temporary reprieve back up into the sky! I’m champing at the bit to start some nav work. Or even just to pole it about for a bit!
@bladerunner911
Haha, yes - those judges are real inside my head. I’ll never judge an airline pilot’s landing again