Thanx for the replies. :D Put my mind to rest a little bit. I am pretty sure I will relax a bit when flying weather is better.

At one stage I was quite confident, but the training in the stiff cross winds really brought me back to earth - as a figure of speech

- smashed my confidence to pieces.
Eggbeater says:
At one stage my instructor and I debated putting large tyres on the Magni because I insisted on landing next to and not on the runway.
After training when I was pulling about two wheelbarrows of veldgrass from the gyro's wheels - Brakpan is a tar runway for the uninformed - my instructor remarked " Good to do some training in not so perfect weather."
With that I have to agree. Gives you a taste of what can happen out there if you do not concentrate on external factors. I am sure this was one of my more valuable training lessons.
