Does anyone else beat themselves up for their flight lessons?
Got back from my 1.7 hour flight earlier today.
Overall it went pretty good (my 5th flight 6.6 hours in now) however there are things I’m not happy about.
We did some slow flight, cool, not too hard.
Did some steep turns (first time) and the first one was awful, as expected, lost a ton of altitude but the ones after that were significantly better. Such a weird feeling doing those turns and feeling g forces.
We then moved onto power on stalls (I’ve done power off and those weren’t too hard) but today I really struggled wit power on stalls. I kept using aileron in recovery out of instinct I guess? It didn’t go very well. Disappointed but it was the first time so fuck it.
We went to land, and I accidentally “ballooned” our landing. And my instructor went and did a go around and the landing after was significantly better… anyone else beat themselves up for performance expecting more of themselves?
Posted Mar 4, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC