Right-seat consolidation: traffic pattern, normal takeoff and landing

What this lesson is for: repetition, until the right seat stops taking up attention. Mostly circuits.

Still no teaching. Narration starts at lesson 26. What you are buying today is the spare capacity that narration is going to need.

Read:

• Your own lesson 10 debrief, and the one change it identified.
• FAA-H-8083-3C, the takeoffs and landings chapter, plus the October 2025 addendum.

Deliverable: One sentence, written: the single thing you are changing today, and how you will know at the end of the flight whether it worked.

One sentence. If you need a paragraph, you have picked too many things.

1. Your lesson 10 debrief, and what changes today.
2. The traffic pattern from the right seat, and where the runway sits in the window now.
3. Normal takeoff and climb.
4. Normal approach and landing, with attention on the flare.
5. Crosswind handling from the right seat, if the day offers it.
6. Repetition.

Fly circuits. Six or more landings, probably eight to ten. This is a deliberately repetitive lesson and that is what makes it work.

1. You fly at least six normal takeoffs and landings from the right seat to private pilot standards.
2. You demonstrate the specific change identified in your lesson 10 debrief.
3. You fly the pattern to standard tolerances without prompting on altitude, spacing, or configuration point.
4. You maintain centerline on the takeoff roll, without the drift from lesson 10.
5. You deliver a self-critique before hearing your instructor's.

Not meeting this does not block lesson 14. No proficiency gate. It triggers the visibility rule in policy/REMEDIATION-VISIBILITY.md, which makes extra work visible as extra work.

• Still flaring a bit high. Less than lesson 10. This is what progress looks like here, and it arrives through repetitions rather than through concentration.
• Flying a wide pattern, because the runway sits in a different part of the window than the one your eye has used for years. Ask for a reference on the wing.
• The left-hand throttle grab coming back when you get busy. It will. Notice it each time.
• Fixating on the landing and letting the downwind get sloppy.
• Getting frustrated at the rate of progress. Sight picture is a repetition problem, not an effort problem. Trying harder does not move it; going round again does.

Same thresholds as lesson 10, and stated again so they stay familiar:

• Below 300 ft AGL on approach without correction within two seconds.
• Drift toward the runway edge on takeoff roll not arrested immediately.
• Airspeed below 1.1 Vso on final without correction applied.
• Bank exceeding 45 degrees in the pattern.
• Attention inside the cockpit in the pattern while traffic is developing.

Positive exchange of controls, both directions, every time.

Uses the two slots from lesson 10, both currently empty. This lesson is complete and deliverable with them empty.