I arrived at the airport this afternoon and talked with Greg, who I met the first day I was scheduled for my Intro flight. We chatted for a bit and was told to preflight the plane. Greg wanted to come along for the ride and I thought that was great. He has about 15 hours and is almost ready for solo.

After preflight, I forgot to remove the chocks. My instructor asked me if I got everything and was ready to go and then it hit me. A few lessons ago it was the left tie-down, now the chocks. Maybe I'm subliminally trying to stay on the ground. :-)

Today was point to point navigation, which made sense. I got up there, started looking at traffic and lost my point. Oh well, correct the course and go on.

We did some clearing turns (left then right) and a 30 degree 360 to ensure no one was up here with me. Then my instructor took the controls and demonstrated a steep turn to the left, then I did one. Couldn't keep altitude and kept losing the 45 angle. Then we did right steep turns, same thing. At one point, I was almost rolled into a 60 degree bank when my instructor corrected me. I wasn't feeling good from all the G's and dizziness from going in circles. Then my instructor demonstrated what I shouldn't do, quickly go into the bank and yank back on the stick like a fighter pilot. That was all I could handle, so I suggested we head back.

I didn't want to take the controls as I was quite airsick at that point but didn't need to take advantage of the sic-sac. He got it on the ground quickly and I felt quite light-headed and naseaus.

I paid my money and we put the time into the log book. We joked around about the sickness. Time to try Ginger and the Reliefband...

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