On Sep 17, 10:00 pm, Richard Carpenter wrote:
...is in the books.

http://richcarpenter.blogspot.com/

Any comments or feedback is appreciated.

I just had another lesson last night. It was perfect weather for
practicing landings. Only a breath of wind at a slight angle to the
runway. Unfortunately, the airplane I normally fly was down for
maintenance, so I flew one I had never tried before. This one was
much more sensitive to rudder inputs on the ground, so taxiing and
tracking the centerline were difficult. After a couple of slalom
takeoffs and landings, I eventually figured out that this airplane
wants to turn left, and if I just fed in constant right rudder I could
keep it tracking much better.

FYI I am an amputee, and I operate the rudder pedals with just my
right foot by switching back and forth. If I can learn to handle a
plane on the ground, I am sure you can too. It just takes practice.
After all, you have spent your life steering with your hands, and now
suddenly you have to learn to do it with your feet. Your brain needs
to do some re-wiring for this, and it will take time.

Oh, and that fear and loathing about landings? It's perfectly
normal. At first it felt like wrestling a snake to try to get the
plane to line up and cooperate on approach and landing. But gradually
your brain and body adapt to the needs of the airplane. You start to
whittle away all the extra control inputs, and pretty soon you find
that you aren't wrestling so much anymore. This _will_ happen for
you, so don't despair or beat yourself up while you are going up the
learning curve. Everyone who learns to fly goes through this process.