N291DR 1.0 Quick flight around KRHV

I wanted to test out Airball, but because the charging circuit lies to you about whether it's charging the battery, it turns out my probe was out of juice. So I just went out for a quick flight. 3 full stop landings.

Departed KRHV with a short-field takeoff with flaps 2. Climbed out to about 6,500', clearing turns, then did some steep turns, slow flight, and stalls. The main thing with steep turns I need to learn are:

• Stop working too hard. Steady body, steady hands, look out the window, and use all your senses.
• Get the plane coordinated, especially in right turns (where for some reason I have a tendency to hold in top rudder). Then it will fly itself around the turn. Just keep it there.
• Try to sense the stick back force required, and be aware of it.

I made PTS on most of the turns but they were nothing to write home about. Oh well.

Back home, I did a couple of landings. On one of them I went around because I was too high in the pattern and didn't account for the extra energy. They were not super short landing stuff, but they were passable.

N291DR 2.8 Fun and practice flight to C83

Off to Byron (C83) to do some takeoffs and landings. 6 full stop (i.e., tailwheel currency countable) landings total today. All were no-flap "conventional" takeoffs and no-flap wheel landings.

Departed KRHV on a very clear day with quite a bit of turbulence near Calaveras. Flew at 5,500' then did a left 270 into C83 rwy 30. There was a moderate crosswind. I did a rather embarrassing attempt at a wheel landing, then stopped, tied down, ate some lunch, and took a leak in the dirt somewhere (because the bathroom was closed due to COVID).

I took off again and did a boatload of patterns, all of them wheel landings with crosswind correction. First I was flaring too high (but this is a wheel landing, why are you even flaring?). Then I was doing too much crosswind correction and sliding off to the upwind side of the runway (who knew?). Then I finally got it when I reminded myself to "dance" on the rudder pedals, and was able to roll down the runway on one wheel like I should. I still have to get more confident with planting the nose forward; I'm sort of worried about stuffing the propeller into the asphalt. But oh well.

I shut down and took another leak and a swig of water, then took off and returned to KRHV. The landing there was pretty easy since there was almost no crosswind. I did a wheel landing again. Woo hoo.