Student pilot under instruction

Today, Alex and the baby twins, and I, had lunch at a small airfield alongside Lake Zürich - and watched a couple of Cessna light aircraft doing what's known colloquially as "circuits and bumps" with student pilots under supervision from their instructors.  I remember those days well as "circuits and bumps" provide valuable training experience from handling take-off, to accurate climbing turns, to straight and level flight parallel to the runway at about 1000ft AGL (above ground level), to turning and controlled descending turns, to aligning with the runway cognisant of the wind strength and direction, and then a (hopefully) smooth landing, before opening the throttle and doing the same again - over and over and over - until one day your instructor suddenly tells you to not go round again - unceremoniously unstraps, gets out, and tells you to go round once on your own. This is your magic First Solo, following which you go back to the clubhouse, collapse, and have a beer - or whatever. You are not fit to fly again for the rest of that day.

Memories, memories!