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The training at fields #5 and #6 consisted of "hops" in the 15 meter buses until landing ability was shown; then a series of close vertical spirals; then [[acobacy?]]. In the landing a "turn de piste" was made time and again until the perfect "three point landing" was accomplished on the directed spot. This sounds easy, and isn't. The gliding capacity of these nifty little planes is so great that it takes more than one tour to get used to the fact that after you've flattened out just off the ground the speed is great enough to carry on clear across the field, and consequently way past the marked stopping point. So to please the instructor takes more than a few trips.
On the take-off the rapidity of attaining flying speed is marked to a greater degree still, than was experienced in the 18

Transcription Notes:
acobacy - previous transcriber had 'accuracy' but it doesn't look like that to me. Standard French now for acrobatics is 'acrobaties' which would sound the same if he omitted the 'r' in error!