I have to have a preprogrammed set of instructions to follow because it may take me 2 or 3 seconds to react
to a unfamiliar condition. Thanks to all of you for the help. I am pretty sure I will not make that mistake again. What concerns
me is how many different ways there are to crash. I have not repeated any yet.
And you will never have a complete set of preprogrammed instructions for all the different situations you're going to see.
You need to focus on flying the airplane where you want it to go.
Forget about identifying the situation and then what the airplane is doing in that specific situation and then trying to remember what the checklist says you should do in that situation.
If you see the airplane's nose coming up and it shouldn't be coming up, you need to move the sticks whatever way keeps that nose from coming up. And that happens if YOU are flying the airplane upwind, downwind, on approach, in a loop, in a turn or taking off or landing.
You don't take 2 or 3 seconds to react to the nose coming up. You simply put it back down where it should be, where you wanted it to be.
Learn to react to the airplane. And that won't take 2 or 3 seconds. Trying to remember the checklist's instructions for the specific situation will.
How long did it take you to see that the airplane's nose was too high on those takeoffs and go rounds? Did it matter that the airplane was taking off and it's nose was too high, or just that the nose was coming up and it shouldn't have been? Same deal whenever the nose is coming up and you don't want it to. Fly the airplane, not a checklist.