Pattern Work

Today we had the longest flight so far; we were in the air for 2.0 hours. We flew out to Livermore, stopping to practice slow flight, stalls and steep turns, which was OK except I was a little tight on the stalls. I keep thinking they're more complicated than they are! They're not. Nothing really is.

Then we did six touch and gos at the Livermore airport. At first I couldn't even find the thing! I must advocate Google satellite views for this purpose, if not any other. But I did really well on my approaches. The landing itself however was a bit hairy. I kept tensing up, and not reacting enough to the plane's movements. I wasn't really able to control the plane on any of those landings, save the last one, and then too, only slightly. But I got my pattern work in, and we flew back to PAO for three more landings (actually Kevin did the second one just to show me). The third one I did pretty well. So, more of this on Friday!