Keep doing it! Be careful with planning, scout for
land out places near your airport while flying and
then visit them by car to critique your choices and
to fix in your mind where they are, and extend the
distance gradually. Figure out where you went wrong
with your accident; it is probably further back in
your decision path than you might be aware. Forget
the criticism; they weren't there. Most everyone has
twenty-twenty hindsight. For the most part, these
critics are not the ones who can give you foresight,
but a good instructor can.

I have been in your shoes.



At 19:12 27 June 2007, 126driver wrote:
I would like to fly more cross country flights but
have to admit I
usually come up with a list of excuses for not going
on any particular
day. The weather is never good enough, or I have a
dinner engagement,
or my battery seems low, or something. Some of this
is a general
concern about personal injury, but I think I am also
just afraid of
landing out and having to put up with the inconvenience
of a retrieve
and getting criticism from other pilots in my club.
(I did some damage
to my glider on a land out last year and I have lost
a lot of
confidence.) I thought I would get over this, but
have not so far.
Has anybody else been through a period like this, and
if so, how did
you work it out?

thanks,

Steve