Flight# 24

The problem with my landings turned out to be due to looking directly at the runway instead of looking far down the runway at the tree line and let the peripheral vision measure distance above ground. The owner of the flight school, John, happened to notice one of my landings while driving by and knew right away what the problem was. His suggestion was to force myself to look outside the side windows while landing, instead of looking directly at the runway. I tried to apply that trick on this flight. Bill also placed a book infront of me to block my forward vision while I was landing. I was able to land even with a crosswind without many issues this time. I still need more practice though. After I practiced around 4 landings, only 0.1 hour was left on the tach time of N4655X before 100-hour inspection is due. So, we cut short our practice and headed to the hangar area.

Weather outlook is not good for the next 24 hours. On top of that, two of the three small aircraft are out for maintenance. So, there is going to be a lull in training for the next day or two.

The Hobbs time of this flight was 0.7 hours. Cumulative Hobbs time: 26.3 hours.