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thinking a big part of my mistake was getting a too confident and not realizing the profficiency need to correct mistakes close to the ground. when the plane floated across the runway and into the pits I really had no idea what to do.

chopped down to size.

Next time, cut the power and put it into the ground. Planes can be replaced. I lost my second plane in a similar fashion. I rolled it into the ground and watched it disintegrate. I felt stupid at the time, but now it's just a good story and I don't miss the plane at all.

No insult intended, but I think your instructor is letting you try to land before you're ready.
Dennis-

Your were definetely not ready to be flying without the assisted instructor via a training cord. One of the most important manuevers to learn while learning to fly, and you do not see this one preached around is to taxi your trainer around without the wings on, but do cover the entire wing opening and hold it with masking tape, as it will get a lot of oily exhaust residue from the engine, taxi the airplane around and when coming directly toward you, mentally call a right turn, then a left turn and so on until you can automatically do it without hesitation when practicing on the air remember to straighten the airplane out of a curve you must always push the stick toward the low wing and practice and practice until this is second nature to you, very important manuever to become proficient at flying, and by the way, we have all done that mistake, only thing is the ones still in the hobby learned how to get over it.

yeah we were both ahead of ourselves. taking a big step back. high altitude patterns until Ive got the stick work down pat.

We've got a grumpy old guy in our club who's been flying since the planes were chiseled out of stone. He swears that the only way to learn is the "pass the transmitter" method. I'd say this is a great example of why you should use a buddy cord instead. There may be some benefits to passing the box, but they sure aren't obvious to me.

Kerry

If your instructor does not use a buddy box go find one that will. I've had students run away with the box at least when I have a cord they can't get far. By far its the best way to train and it will save you a bunch of heartache-Mike