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I managed to book an early flight, first thing. Arrived at the airfield at 9am only to find it covered in mist. Confident that it would lift enough to be able to fly, we did a briefing on some more stalls. Eventually, by 0950 most of the mist had gone and we were airborne by 10. It was very smooth this morning, definitely the smoothest I have seen it yet. This made the planned lesson on stalling easier to manage. We climbed straight ahead and eventually got to 4000 ft, which is the highest I have been so far.

I did some more advanced stalling, building on last time. After seeing some demonstrations, I went through stalling wtih power off, power on, some flaps and full flaps in the configurationt for approach to landing. The last one with full flaps and power on was the worst, with a pretty violent pull to the left; it was quickly recoved and carried on without losing much altitude. This just highlights how dangerous a full stall can be when close to the ground.

After landing I taxiied to the fuel bay to refuel then went back to parking. There were lots of people watching today, it was a nice day so they must have turned up to watch me.

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