After the morning's debrief, I think I had a better handle on why I had such a crappy climbout. Grant and Matt told me not to worry about time. They factor in more time for students. This time, I took my time, watched my hand placement, watched my foot placement, and shoved my knees and belly and everything in between out the door, then stood right up. I was still a little weak on the exit count. I just need to push up on the balls of my feet a little more for "up" and that will probably fix that. Because I was completely (except for my right hand) outside the plane, I didn't kick off hard. I did sort of roll to the left a bit. I'm close on this part.
Matt was debating what, if anything, to tell me as I checked with him on reserve side during my first COA. I got impatient and moved to Grant on main side. I knew I shouldn't have done that. I did. I got a legs-out from Grant.
Both Matt and Grant released. We're not 100% positive about this, but it looks like I made way too much motion checking altitude and started turning left. I went around 1 and a half revolutions. Matt came in and did a block stop. Basically, he put his hands on me enough to stop the spin. I thought he redocked with me, because I definitely felt him. I also knew that this meant that he had switched sides, which also meant that both guys had released, which I didn't know before then!
After Matt stopped my spin, I stayed on heading, stayed in good body position, and did the rest of the skydive just as planned.
I could have stood this one up on landing, too. I felt like I had complete control of everything, flared at the right time, flared smoothly, and I knew that I was going to hit the ground just about right. At the last second, I made the conscious decision to PLF. I'm not exactly sure why - maybe it was a reaction to the training that says that landings with very little wind are harder than with a steady 10 mph or so breeze. At least I now know that I'm fully capable of standing up the landing!
And, I'm cleared for Cat C-2! Woo-hoo!
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