Jubilee weekend and the wether was pretty poor. Luckiy the cloud was slightly higher on the bank holiday Monday so I got a chance to fly. As it was still around 2000ft we weren't able to do manouveurs - next one to learn is stalling and you need around 3500-4000ft available for that. Instead I gt some more circuit practice in. 6 take off and landings, 4 of which were touch-and-go. That's not to say there was anything wrong with them, t-a-g is jut a method by which you don't waste time waiting coming to a complete stop, taxying back to the start of the runway, waiting for any traffic to clear and then taking off again. Instead as soon as you touch-down and have slowed the aircraft to taxy speed, you put flaps up, carb heat to cold and then full power again to immediately take off for another circuit.
We did have one bounce where we landed a bit hard and came off the runway again but as it was only a couple of feet we were able to still land it. The general rule my instructor has is that any bounce is an immediate go-around, as the danger of bouncing is that you panic, push the nose down to try and land, bounce again, repeat and eventually land on the nose.
All in all a relatively successful day although once again there was about a 10kt crosswind so I've still yet to do a really smooth landing into wind. Anyway I'm off for a couple of hours today so fingers crossed the weather is on our side.
