Well... got to fly this morning.. not nearly as much as I had planned because of other issues so I only ended up getting a few flights in but I tried to pay attention to what I was doing..

It turns out that I DO fly the gear on takeoff and landing... who would've thunk it... certainly not me... I did a series of touch-n-go's and there was no denying that I was flying the gear... a surprise to me..

During a loop I'm pretty sure I was focusing on the canopy to emmpennage part of the plane...

Rolling I found myself waiting to see that stripe so I'd know to re-center the sticks... anticipation plays a big role here I think because I have a lot of flights on this plane... during the role I thinnkn I was trying to watch the canopy of the plane or center mass when I couldn't see the stripe..

I"m kind of disappointed that I didnt get more flights in and actually found it difficult to try 'catch myself" paying attention to something without conciously paying attention to it... if that makes any friggin sense LOL...

I'm very surprised though that I fly the landing gear on takeoff and especially the first turn after takeoff..

Same goes for landing... ended up paying attention to the pitch by watching the nose shifting over to watching those landing gear wheels when I'm about to cross the threshold of the runway...

Try some of these things... I'm very surprised that I didn't know what I was doing until I analyzed what I'm doing...

One thing.. after doing some of these tiny expirements I felt much more comfortable landing and doing touch-n-go's than I normally do... I'm not sure if it's because I'm becoming more aware of my actions or just because I was having one of those "good" days....

Anyway... I look forward to hearing if anyone else tried these ultra nerdy expirements and learned something...
Casey