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August 15, 2010

flying: I fought the instructor

OK, what actually happened was that he's told me that I was flaring too high, but I took it as an order to flare NOW. His reaction was to resist my input and since I have no clue what control forces should be, mine was "pull harder". Fortunately he won and we didn't stall.

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