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foreignobjecticus · 2 years ago

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Just read back over 2+ years of what are diary entries, I suppose (I’ll write one every 3 or so months). I started during the lockdowns with them and they’re all basically: oh apparently there’s this thing called mental exhaustion/stress/burnout and I think I might have it. Ahhhh, my sweet summer child... (I say, while having just gone through a period so stressful that I’ve permanently damaged three teeth). Not entirely sure how I can consistently exist so far outside my own mind that I don’t actively realise my emotional state in anything but retrospect lolololol

#but the overall theme of the entries is getting better > more restrictions are lifting > realising good things > feeling better > repeat #text tag #went flying again. three months exactly since my last lesson #quite happy with my performance. good innate sense of flying now. very good landings but still a bit shite with flare #I called off the lesson at the third touch and go because it was so choppy I was starting to feel sick #but then had to go around because of a gust lolllllll. did a bad weather circuit to get back in quick. I didn't really feel proper nauseous #but keeping going would be a poor choice. It was up to 25kts gusting which is a LOT #that'll be because of the storm up in scotland #anyway my instructor is lovely and said i did very well for having been gone so long AND with shite weather #its' a fucking workout flying like that man. Seriously. So exhausting.#he also told me not to be embarrassed to call off the lesson early because that's good practise to know your limits which I totally agree #like literally... I have landed twice while ready to throw up on myself and... look... that's HARD. Like. SO HARD.#because you can't fucking stop when you're flying. once you go up #you have a commitment to come back down ...in one piece lol #that's the most intimidating thing about flying solo tbh. the fact that it's 100% on you to stay alert and land safely.#that's the only thing I find I can worry about with flying but I try not to #anyway this cessna is the most fogiving thing in the universe anyway. Good god it's like flying a little tank #heavy dumbo slow baby with half its intrumentation just a little bit dodgy.#one fuel gauge dead. such a loose door. But it's got soul #i'll never complain about the treefrog-filled jabiru again lol

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