Another David

Hi Red I too am learning circuits. I have flown three different planes and had 4 instructors. You wouldn't think they were all following the same procedures as all have their own ideas and methods. I have decided now to stay with just the one instructor and the one plane. That way I won't get so confused with what I am supposed to be doing and when I look down to check my instruments I will know where the bloody things are. I think this will help me. Know what you are going through.

In the process of learning to fly and loving it so far. At the stage of trying to master that landing thing. Controlled panic I think is a good description of where I am at currently. Just hoping one day it will all feel as easy as driving a car.

I am just learning to fly and doing circuits. So far I have flown from 3 different Airstrips at vastly different heights. While I can see the merit of setting the altimeter at the circuit elevation when venturing away from base to another airfield it makes no sense to me when taking off and landing and flying over the same place it can't be just left on 0 from the ground as in England. . All the approach heights are then easy to follow. There is something just wrong about landing and the altimeter reading 1500' Also from reading all these threads from some obviously very experienced pilots going on about all the variables of altimeter settings based on pressure and the changing there of with weather mountains etc. Why in this day and age aren't all planes equiped with a GPS or Radar height calculator that would give the correct height without all the re setting.