Scott,
Congratulations. Keep this up and you may be the first person on this list
to drive and fly a Spitfire! Do you have a hangar ready???
Kristi
This morning, Friday, 13 December, my attempts at flying an airplane were so
hideous, that my instructor got out of the Cessna 172(on the ground, of
course!)
and told me to fly by myself! IN OTHER WORDS- After 40 some hours of
instruction, I have finally come to terms with landings, and this morning
SOLOED! Yes! I flew as "Pilot In Command" for the first time. Well, as "In
Command" as a student can be- no passengers, cargo or livestock(Ever try to
fit
"livestock " in a 172? Maybe lemmings, or a mink or two...) no choice of
destination(right- go off that end or the runway, turn about the pattern,
come
back on that end of the runway) but I- by myself- taxied out, took off-
climbed-flew a pretty good pattern- descended- and LANDED- not once, but
three
times! Even the fact I had to go to work afterwards failed to annoy me
today. I
have now, officially, had my first solo, and I am happy. :)
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