Tue Jun 08, 2021 10:59 am
#1851776
editmonkey wrote:The mostly poor attempts at circuits/landings were due to being too high on final because it is *still* taking too long to get my landing config right. I've identified that this is because I'm still fumbling downwind checks
Have you totally memorised your downwind checks? By which I mean, so that (out of the aeroplane) you can recite them and mentally step through them, quickly, but still imagining each action, while you are doing something else?
If not, then do so.
Recite them, imagine each action, 20 times every day. While cooking, cleaning your teeth, driving a car, anything. But really, really learn them, so that you really, really know them. Get someone to test you on them while attempting to distract you.
Do the same for the actions on base and final.
My instructor told me to do this - he said, "we'll be starting circuits soon, learn the DW checks really thoroughly, I will test you on them, and unless you know them well, we won't be going up."
So I did.
You need these ancillary tasks to take only a tiny amount of your concentration at the moment, because as you're saying, they are distracting from the flying. If you need to think less about the checks, you'll have more head space for the flying, which will then seem easier.
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