Beautiful day today. Back at the airport flying with real weather again. This time there was a 13 knot wind from 355 degrees. Runway is at 320 degrees, so direction of wind was 35 degrees off-center. Not a full cross wind, but still something to contend with. Plus the wind was stronger today than yesterday and with gusts up to 16 knots.
I flew seven pretty consistent patterns, with just a couple of wide turns on the base leg/final approach and had seven not bad landings (none on the grass) but none perfect. The picture above is of my fourth out of seven and probably the best. I'm just a bit to the right of center-line, but otherwise pretty good. I had one short landing, on the runway but behind the white markers, four long ones, generally from flaring too soon and floating (killing instead of just slowing my rate of descent), and two that were right on the money, one a little right and one a little more left of center.
No grass on my wheels this time at least, but I still need to work on it.
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