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After a long month of crappy weather and  a notice of dissapproval I am now a private pilot.  I have been waiting to get my license to post to the blog, kind of silly to wait for but it was a bit of superstitions for me.   So here is what happened in the past month.  Late last month I met with my examiner on a scuzzy day to get my oral out of the way so all we had to do was wait for a nice weekend to go fly.  With the “easy” part done I waited and waited for a a full month of weekends to fly.  After a month of dissapointments, of either having bad weather and good temps or bad temps and great weather, one day coming down to a degree difference between fly and not fly.  So finally this weekend I had the perfect storm of weather, great weather and great temps.  Yesterday I sent out and flew with my examiner, everyting went well, all of the cross country, stuff, stalls, until I got to steep turns.  I dont know what happened, they had been giving me some trouble and I had not done them in a few weeks.  I think I just got to them and forgot how do them.  Long story short I was well out of standard and thus this was my area of dissapproval.  Flying back I was very dissappointed but pushed it to the back of my mind and smoked all of my takeoffs and landings.  So now it was dark and all I had between my license and no license was a few steep turns and some turns around a point that we did not get to due to it getting dark.   This morning I met up with Will and went out to just get steep turns down.  I had him color them out in crayola for me and really got them down.  There was no way I was going to out again and totally blowing it.  Got my steep turns down and went out with my examiner again.  We went out, I smoked my steep turns and did the turns around the point where are easy.  Landed the plane with no problems and got a big congrats from my examiner and my instructor.  What I really figured out from my examiner is that not passing the first time is not a big deal because no matter what happens we are always learning and we as pilots don’t want anything for free we earn what we get and learn from our mistakes.  I know I learned a ton from my little road bump and am a better pilot for it.  Today I earned a license to learn and I am looking forward to every learning opportunity that flying has to offer.  My next step is and instrument rating which I will happily blog about and I am going to open this blog up to more of my life than just flying now.  Thanks for reading to this point and I look forward to sharing my next my future explorations in learning.