Today was clear up to 12000′, a bit chilly, and surface winds of 8 knots out of the southeast. What I didn’t know was that winds at about 1800′ MSL and above were over 50 MPH. It made going where I wanted kind of entertaining. Most of the flight was over the lakes, working on my slow flight skills, Slow flight involves, as the name implies, flying very slowly — close to the stall speed of the plane. The plane’s airspeed was about 55 MPH, and the wind speed was definitely faster than that. So when heading directly into the wind, my ground speed was, um, negative. So when I looked out the window at the ground, I got to see the ground going the wrong way, which was a little disturbing. Made a couple nice landings at the end, so that makes me happy. Still floating a bit more than I would like, but nothing too horrible.

UPDATE: Changed title to be flight 20 after realizing I skipped the flight on Jan 16.