And the Beat Goes On

I had a great evening last night. 5 safe landings on my own in Nampa and one back in Boise. What a relief! I have always thought of landings in terms of "good" and "bad" or "smooth or "hard." CFI talked about "safe" as the criterion last night. Maybe he has given up on "good." :) He also told me that smooth isn't always good. The analogy is that a golf coach takes a first time student out and on the first shot, the student has a horrible swing.. just awful.. but, through serendipity, the shot is pretty good.. straight and fairly good distance. Does the instructor say, "Good shot" and stop teaching? No. Because if he did, the student would end up in trouble down the road. So if you start slopping together a bunch of crappy landings, you get bad habits, and could smack up an airplane at some point. Better to have the right technique and be a bit off on execution. Anyway, I did great.. and I needed that.