Better!

I flew yesterday morning. Tuesday was an off day. I was sorta wound up and it showed. Yesterday was much better. I worked real hard on relaxing (yes, I see the irony there). As a reward I did much better. We worked on power-off and power-on stalls. It was the first time I had stalled the plane and recovered myself. The other time we tried, the CFI demonstrated it. We also did some ground-reference maneuvers again (tracking around a rectangle on the ground, S-turns around a road, and circles around a point. It's interesting because the heading (the direction the nose is pointing) varies from the course (the track on the ground) because of wind. I did most of the landing (CFI handled the throttle, I did the rest). Not too comfortable with that yet, but landing is a mandatory factor in every flight, so I guess I will get better. I am still hoping to post up some pics. I need to get to the airport on a sunny day and take some. I think I will wear shorts and pretend it's summer for purposes of the pics. Weather is going to continue to be a factor, but my CFI agrees with my assessment that the weather guys are often wrong. In addition, he claims that he tv guys are under great pressure to never miss a storm. So they are overly pessmistic. The ground school focus from here on out is material with which I have limited famiarity, so I anticipate that it will be a little tougher. Nothing else to report. Every time I talk to my mother she quotes Dad as saying, "Yep, flying is lots of fun if nobody is shooting at you." I guess that applies to lots of things.