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Georgia, We all have vivid memories of
learning to fly, and your description brings these memories flooding back.
I had the unique experience of going through the same experience again when I
got back into flying 2 years ago. I had not flown for 20 years so I
scheduled a BFR. I told the instructor that I was like a beginning
student. He insisted that flying was like riding a bike, you never
forget. And he was right, I knew all the technicques and could verbalize
them just fine. The takeoff was uneventful, but the turns around a point,
the criss-crossing of a road, emergency landing, and navigation exercises,
combined with trying to get a feel for the plane, listening to Approach and the
instructor, was almost overwhelming. I expected it to be, but the
instructor considered me a 20 year experience pilot. It made me feel like
a new student; i.e., arkward and ignorant. But it also helped make me
a better pilot again--I didn't take flying for granted after that BFR, I knew I
needed more instruction if I was going to recapture the sky. The point of
this narrative is that the experience you described is normal, although at times
it will seem even more complex and overwhelming. Don't get
discourage when that happens, it will come together, (and then
you solo!) I can't wait to hear about it.
(I still use this same instructor for my
BFRs).
Ken Doyle
Springfield, Mo
Alon N5477E
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