Bad landing

Posted by Nearby_Ad_1191@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 21 comments

Hi everyone, (low time student pilot 10 hours)

Had a pretty shitty landing today on my behalf, where I landed a little too hard, leading to ballooning.
In previous flights where I ballooned, I then continued to hold back pressure and wait for the plane to settle, but today I instinctively applied a little forward pressure after ballooning instead.
This lead to the instructor (rightfully so) stepping in and taking control very abruptly. It was clearly voiced by the instructor that applying forward pressure in those circumstances is a big No No, and even though I know that, in the moment it just happened to be an instinctive thing.
We spoke about it afterwards and it was all good, but still hard not to beat myself up about it.

Any words of encouragement, or even stories of other people doing similar stuff at all?

Cheers in advance.