well apparently it is confirmed. i have several things i need to master in flying that helicopter before i can call myself good. God i am slow -_-. I enjoy it but man, these past couple of lessons have really shown where my errors and bad habits lack.
one, i cant do high reconnaissance approaches (i think) worth crap. im slow to planing ahead and my approaches are therefore a little shifty. sometimes they're close but not quite, others, i found miserable. i couldn't even decide i had to go around and try again. if your descent rate is still more than 300 feet a minute by the time you get too close for comfort for your landing spot, you have to go around, because obviously its not safe for a helicopter. see, I know that. but for some reason its not quite getting to me while in practice. i guess i'm so worked up on keeping the helicopter on its path whatever im 'focusing on' isn't giving me the numbers i wanna see on my instruments, which is because im too concerned with IT and not with what i want to do!
two, my autorotations are actually fine, only its the ending flare maneuver that i struggle with. i need to push the nose down. yes theres a difference between a push and a shove but i need to push it steadily down. you cannot let the helicopter flare up and linger there in something as dangerous in an auto rotation. i need to be more forceful!
three: i need to pay attention to details as well. i forgot another something on my shut down checklist. the clutch! how lame! here id gotten it off numerous times before and yet here i forget it, just like i did with making sure the throttle wasnt closed, ugg.
*sigh* how can i change these habits, and adapt? how can i calm down and think clearer than ever?
i just need to slow down, pick solid points to measure up on, and glide down gradually. i guess I'm a little better than i was before, but meh, who cares about that. im the one thats always worrying about the future, for some reason my mindset changes when im in the helicopter. I'm glued to making sure that everything i currently see is okay. WTF? things are going to change, so i need to plan AHEAD AND ADJUST. i should know this and thats why im berating myself about it now. i gotta change these habits if i think im fit to fly this machine.
i just find it so ironic, here i am always planning ahead over every little thing i want in life, yet i can just barely do it in a helicopter o_O. weeell thats about to change!
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