Recent content by Johnc3640

First, I can not thank all you enough for your encouragement, your views and suggestions. I decided to try a different CFI, a pleasant young man. We talked about 30 minutes before our first flight and discussed many of the thoughts and suggestion offered here. In summary, I tried a...

denverpilot - Kansas flyer I am DETERMINED to learn to fly, I show up for every lesson at least 15 minutes earily, as prepared as I can be with positive attitude. Many days I drive home after my lesson feeling embarrassed, but after the drive I "leave it there", spend the afternoon thinking...

Denverpilot - no it wasn't a joke and I don't think I even exaggerated. For the record, I wasn't trying to hurt anyone, I just wanted to find out just how much "hop" that old Piper still had in her!!! Actually, during my prior 2 landings attempts, apparently I was too aggressive in raising the...

Ryanb you must have spent in the back of my Piper - after reading you posts it occurred to me that I may very well be way too much "fly the airplane, be assertive, don't let the plane fly you" and not nearly enough of "small, smooth corrections". Also, Clark, thank so much, I am very excited...

mscard88 lol too late already done that - luckly somewhere between the first and second bounce while my CFI was having a meltdown and screaming, I went around. Seriously, thank you all for your thoughts - although I am frustrated, I am not giving up. I'm just looking for thoughts and ideas...

I am a student pilot struggling with consistently landing the airplane so I thought I would attempt to obtain a fresh/different view of what I am doing vs what I should be doing. First, basic info, plane Piper Archer, v speeds 85 downwind, 75 base, 65 final - patern altitude 1800. I seem to be...