I'm afraid my flight training was during the day, and the nearest ocean was 700 miles away, so I can't say for sure. I just found taking off a matter of applying power, keeping the nose lined up in the right direction, and pulling back when the airplane reached the rotation velocity. But that was over fifty years ago and I'm sure I would not be as capable as I was then.
Landing was more of a dance between altitude, air speed, throttle, flaps, ailerons, elevator, rudder, oh, and yeah, talking to the tower. I didn't do well with the radio and flying. That was the main reason I didn't end up getting further along in my flight training, I was not good at understanding the controller. It's one thing to listen to a radio on the ground, another when you're pilot in command.
Landing was more of a dance between altitude, air speed, throttle, flaps, ailerons, elevator, rudder, oh, and yeah, talking to the tower. I didn't do well with the radio and flying. That was the main reason I didn't end up getting further along in my flight training, I was not good at understanding the controller. It's one thing to listen to a radio on the ground, another when you're pilot in command.
