Today was quite an interesting day for a lesson. Firstly although it was hazy and sunny at home Blackbushe had no sun and visibility was down to 2-2.5km which was okay for circuits. Secondly the Olympic restrictions are bugging everyone at the club. Viv and Tony were pulling their hair out trying to submit flight plans on the internet when I arrived, which left Tony in an uncharacteristically quiet mood. It hadn't helped that he'd been flying earlier with a broken transponder and Atlas didn't want him to come back to Blackbushe but remain outside the Olympic restriction zone. I wasn't totally on the ball - not as good as last week anyway which didn't help. Add to all of this the fact that Alpha-November is off for a service and we had to fly G-BPTE with it's airspeed indicator in MPH, lack of HSI and really heavy rudder. I need to overcome these little obstacles - frame of mind; changes in aircraft and weather; minor lack of sleep.
We flew circuits for an hour during which time I managed one landing I was praised for, two hefty balloons and one when I took so long to get down we ran out of runway and had to taxi back to the holding point to take off again. The airfield was quiet - not surprising given the conditions.
In the end Tony was happy I was making progress and once again urged me to take the Air Law exam. Challenge: I feel I still need to get a handle on changing conditions like allowing for the wind. I have another lesson on Sunday 0900 - lets hope the weather improves a bit.
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