Cessna Aircraft Undifferentiated or Other Model
Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Private
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 34; Flight Crew Total 425; Flight Crew Type 63
Training / Qualification; Confusion
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach; Inflight Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control
Flight Crew Regained Aircraft Control; Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach
Human Factors; Weather
I was returning to my home base of ZZZ from ZZZ1. I am flying my newish Aircraft X; of which I have about 19 hours in. It should be noted that most of my flight hours are from 25 years ago. I knew ZZZ had some crosswinds but I thought they were manageable and I felt I needed to push myself a bit. If I remember; the winds were about 13 at 260 (260 at 13). Part of my challenge was that they were not reporting winds on METAR only ATIS. Upon approach the winds started gusting to 19. This would give an 8.4 kt. crosswind gusting to 12 knots; something I should be able to handle. So; on the first attempt; I think my approach was OK; but I flared high; bounced and quickly realized a go-around was the best option. Not perfect but decent decision making.The second attempt is where things went very wrong. This time I came in with 20 degrees of flaps. My approach was probably a bit fast; but seemed OK as I got closer to the airport. First of all; I flared too high again; bounced; but then made the mistake to try and salvage the landing. On the second bounce I recognized that the plane was proposing and I'd have a prop strike if I let it drop again. So; I started another go-around; but the plane would not climb; more importantly I wasn't facing down the runway but more towards the left side. At this point the helicopters parked left of the runway are getting bigger in my windshield but I know I've got to gain air speed. The one correct decision I made was to keep the nose down until I gained some airspeed. Eventually I got the speed and was able to climbout. At some point in this I realized why I couldn't climb; I had raised all of the flaps! I then came around and successfully landed the plane on the third attempt. It was bad enough that after I parked; the fire department came over to 'congratulate' me on my recovery; but I really think it was to make sure I was OK.I learned the following on this landing attempt. I need more time with my instructor with landings; especially crosswind landings. I need more practice on Go-Arounds focusing on flap management and right rudder.
C206 pilot reported crosswind landings resulting in two unstabilized approaches and go-arounds resulting in momentary loss of control before successfully landing.