Gliding

Went gliding again today, with Piao Piao (wow I was gonna spell Piao Piao as Piano) lol.

Anyway, weather was great at the beginning, I was launched twice. First time only a 6 minute flight because we couldn't find any thermals at all. But the second flight was awesome, went for 34 minutes because we found thermals that pushed us up till over 5,000ft.

Then I did stuff like going up the thermal, turn right and left, which was slightly better than I did last Saturday. Then we did stall as well, and I stalled the plane (on purpose, yay!) and then practicing using the trim. Then we did spin (a type of maneuver but is required to be learnt) amongst many other exercises one can fit in 34 minutes of climbing.

We then did a circuit to land and I approached the runway, unfortunately I forgot that the safe speed was supposed to be 60knots, but I only went 50knots, bad!

Anyway, the rest of the day was just rest and waiting for the rest to go home.

Feeling slightly better, albeit still a bit down. I think I should talk to Helen tomorrow.