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Jerry's Thirty-second lessonA short one this time.... I set out for a lesson at PAO this morning. Wow, two lessons a weekend! I felt downright self-indulgent :-). In general, I've almost _almost_ got this landing thing down; it's so close I can taste it! I'll take a lesson whenever he's willing to give it to me. Next lesson is tomorrow, that'll be three days in a row.We did 15 landings at HWD, and one at PAO, coming home. Still trying to touch that tailwheel first. Did it too, a couple times, although one was too high, and we dropped a foot or two out of the stall. Bonk! But no bounce, because the tailwheel hit first. And one was absolute, textbook perfect. We did stops on some of them, but most of them were touch & goes. He tried having me do final approach at 65 instead of 70, so the plane would start out pitched higher. I can tell that 65 will ultimately work well for short-field, because it doesn't float nearly as much. But it also gives you less time to play with the flare. We went back to 70. We came back to PAO, I muffed the landing there, he fixed it. If I'd been alone, I probably would have gone around. We taxied back to parking. He got back in the plane to do some flying. I went to the park bench by the runway to watch. I sat there and watched him do four or five touch & goes. All of them were wheel landings. And he's making _me_ do all that work to touch the tailwheel first :-)! - Jerry "46.1 Hours" Kaidor |