I did alright on the retake. I checked the outside distracions at the door and am now catching up immensely.

The other night I was so lost that I started to wonder if I had completely missed the boat during training. I was asked to turn the auto pilot off and hand fly a non-precision. My instrutor said I flew well for raw data but he wanted the flight guidance on, lol. This is where my problems started. I found out that I was totally cluless about the flight guidance system. I understood the theory but it was the application that I struggled with.

Summary of my awesome flight, The flight guidance scramble:

Selecting a new altitude before I had captured the previous, not good. Focusing so much on how to work the flight guidance panal that my attitude and airspeed went to poo. Then there was the missed that inolved a turn to capture a radial. I set the initial altitude instead of the final missed altitude. Therefore I scrambled with the callouts while creating an unnecesary struggle trying to set the next altitude/heading, all while trying to sink the VOR frequency and radial. In the depature, when to go from pink to green needles. I didn't understnd why I was suppose to have green needles if there wasn't a VOR to set them to. Oh and the best was leveling off at the MDA and then flying the flight director till I was too high to land. I kept thinking it was going to give me a glide path to the runway like the gps I have used in the past. I know, I'm a bone head. But it was somewhat clear as mud.

I felt like Miss South Carolina at the Teen USA pageant.

I think I understand it all now but it is hard to know for sure. The other night I thought I knew it pretty well too and than everything went to poo.
Give me a single engine ILS any day over hand flying a non-precision with the flight director

BTW, Thanks everyone!

There have been a ton of PM's and emails sent with advice. I now see that I am not alone here. There are a lot of people going through or have been through similar experiences during training.

Also, Just becuse I am usually the first one to vocalize what others may be feeling, doesn't mean I don't have a good attitude. I may be highy opinionated with a complete lack of grammer, but at least I don't live in Kansas.