Pattern work today to brush up on landings. It started out with light but direct crosswinds that increased as time passed. Wind at pattern altitude kept pushing me toward the runway and had to crab a lot to keep from drifting toward the runway on downwind. So the downwind-to-base turns took forever, and then it was hard to avoid overshooting the base-to-final turns. And then the landings were interesting, with winds variable from calm to 7 knots, always with a crosswind, sometimes with a slight headwind, sometimes with a slight tailwind.
So I got six landings in and called it a day before the conditions got any worse.
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