After your PPL, what do you regularly practice?

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Training is all about repetition and doing things over till you are safe. I was wondering what things people practice on a regular basis once you have receieved your PPL. Do you get up there and do stalls? Slow flight? Steep banks? Just kinda wanted to know.
 
I try to get up and practice emergency maneuvers every once in a while. Short and soft field landings all the time (I seldom do a "normal" landing). I like to practice soft field takeoffs whenever KHAF is clear -- generally, it has a crosswind and it's a very wide runway.

If I haven't flown a particular model in a while, slow flight, steep turns (these days, 55-60 deg bank, not 45), and and least one stall is called for.
 
I used to do Short fields or power off 180's whenever possible. Stalls/Slow flight normally only when I hadn't flown a plane in a while..
 
Steep turns,and slow flight.
 
Crosswind landings.

Short and soft field ops.
 
At least once a month I try to do:
Steep turns
stalls
slow flight (especially this time of the year to get the oil temps up).
Emergency procedures (engine outs, etc.)
Crosswind landings if the winds will cooperate.

I try to hit at least one short grass strip on every "just poking a hole in the sky" flight.

I always do power-off landings from downwind.
 
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