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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.  […]

Well, it’s the day before my Check Ride (hopefully) and I am spending today finishing/polishing up my X/C planning getting in some last minute studying and mentally going over my flight manuvers.  I need to run out to the FBO today to go through the Pilot Operating Handbook for the plane I will be flying […]

Well I am now in preparation mode for my check ride which will be very shortly after Christmas. I have some good time now over the holiday to study for my oral and do my flight planning. Basically, I am planning a cross country to Green Bay, a Weight and Balance for the […]

So I officially passed my Private Pilot written exam today.  It was really pretty easy after much studying this weekend.  I met with Will this morning to get my log book endorsed.  After that I drove up to Jane Field to take my exam.  The folks at Cirrus were quite helpful, though I had to […]

My long cross country went very well. Seriously what a great trip. I remember a post from S4xton on his blog a while back about falling in love with flying all over again. I thing you get to a point especially when you are learning/training that you are just going up flying […]

I have been a bit “unplugged”  the past few weeks getting a few things going in my life, I have done a bit of flying mostly my night stuff.  Monday I flew my first solo cross-country.  It was a blast out to Wilmar and back.  Kind of lonly though - all by myself.  Today I […]

Did my first cross-country today. All of my planning went well and everything worked out pretty close to plan. It was pretty sweet to write down the times for my checkpoints and only be a minute off the entire way out. I like it when a well formed plan comes together. […]

Finished up my 3 hours of IFR “hood work” wearing the “foggles” That was actually a good time and some valuable training in case the worst happens and I find myself in the middle of a cloud. At any rate I am planning my first cross-country out to Wilmar today. So this […]

So today I am out flying with will doing some short field/soft field takeoffs and some cross wind landings. In addition to that we also did some hood work which I thought was pretty fun and a good thing to learn for emergencies. At any rate we were flying back from Maple Lake […]

As you can tell by the title today I did my first solo! It was very exciting. The story goes something like this. Showed up to where I have been flying for the past month while N13329 has been down this morning around 1045 and finished up a few bits of paperwork […]