Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:25 pm
#1858987
@jcal Quote "Instructor is throwing so much at me I'm still trying to digest things I've learned before we move on, but I'll make sure to ask to recap things I'm not confident with."
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Well, here's the odd thing..... this learning is like nothing, and I mean NOTHING, I've ever done before. And I've done a fair bit!
I too thought one should consolidate, not move to another new thing (or 5) before one had grasped new thing number 1.
How wrong I was!!
More stuff just keeps getting chucked in, you think you haven't got it, but your brain secretly works away on the Stuff and one day it spits it out , pretty much fully formed.
Took me a while to get straight and level, I mean I was heavy handed and it seemed beyond me. Now it just happens.
Meantime, I tackled rolling onto headings, level turns, climbing and descending etc, some I took to faster than others .
When I finally got into the circuit lessons, S&L was fine! We'd not really practiced it specifically after the first lesson* , osmosis had solved the problem
*that's not true, I had to repeat that lesson
Every lesson you are in fact recapping things, of course. TO, climbing, general handling, may not be the focus of the lesson but you're doing those things.
Obviously I love learning to fly, it's almost an unbelievable thing I find myself doing, but I'm no natural. It's gonna take a while.
I've felt embarrassed by my shabby performances and slow progress, but then suddenly I have a great lesson and there's the rush!
So the short version is, your brain is secretly consolidating, you'll see.
PS, I thought I was suffering from capacity overload, instructor took away some tasks in the circuit to help me work on the flying but it disn't help much . However, the day I suddenly had far MORE to do was my best ever lesson. Work that one out
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Well, here's the odd thing..... this learning is like nothing, and I mean NOTHING, I've ever done before. And I've done a fair bit!
I too thought one should consolidate, not move to another new thing (or 5) before one had grasped new thing number 1.
How wrong I was!!
More stuff just keeps getting chucked in, you think you haven't got it, but your brain secretly works away on the Stuff and one day it spits it out , pretty much fully formed.
Took me a while to get straight and level, I mean I was heavy handed and it seemed beyond me. Now it just happens.
Meantime, I tackled rolling onto headings, level turns, climbing and descending etc, some I took to faster than others .
When I finally got into the circuit lessons, S&L was fine! We'd not really practiced it specifically after the first lesson* , osmosis had solved the problem
*that's not true, I had to repeat that lesson
Every lesson you are in fact recapping things, of course. TO, climbing, general handling, may not be the focus of the lesson but you're doing those things.
Obviously I love learning to fly, it's almost an unbelievable thing I find myself doing, but I'm no natural. It's gonna take a while.
I've felt embarrassed by my shabby performances and slow progress, but then suddenly I have a great lesson and there's the rush!
So the short version is, your brain is secretly consolidating, you'll see.
PS, I thought I was suffering from capacity overload, instructor took away some tasks in the circuit to help me work on the flying but it disn't help much . However, the day I suddenly had far MORE to do was my best ever lesson. Work that one out
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