Absolutely drained after this one !!! It’s always the ones where I don’t crack it that leave me drained. It’s as if my mind is going 100mph to work out what went wrong.
Today was transitions. This is where the helicopter goes from a hover to forward/climbing flight and from descending/forward flight to the hover. I suppose it’s the equivalent of a takeoff/landing for a fixed-wing aircraft.
The transitions themselves went “ok”ish, but of course, they involve a hover. We did circuits where you takeoff, fly back on yourself and then transition back into the hover and they went ok as well, but once I had got into the hover, the hover just WASN’T there today. I am disappointed in myself because it was worse than the other day.
But, Steve could tell I was feeling dejected, and said that I shouldn’t worry. He explained that he was nowhere near my level by this time in his PPL and I was doing very well, which was just the pickme up I needed. Thanks Steve.
