Third Supervised Solo

6/21/2010

On Monday morning I had my third supervised solo. We have to meet in the morning, because North Carolina this week is in the high 90's with high humidity. That sort of weather makes flying in the pattern with Sky Pig uncomfortable to say the least. I finally took a few pictures of the beast, here she is.

I did two landings with Hal (one of which the side latch of the door popped open again) and then he sent me off on my own. The first landing was good except after I touched down I was swerving all over the runway and realized my foot was on the right side brake too soon. About this time a snide little voice comes over the radio questioning whether there was a deer on the runway I was avoiding...

Two more landings and it is getting really warm in the Cherokee, there is no fan and nothing but hot hair coming in the vents. Hal tells me to keep going, so up I go again. By now the sweat is running down my face and I have had enough, one more good landing and I head back in to get out of the sweatbox.

So now I have three solo flights in and ten solo take offs with their corresponding landings in my logbook along with the endorsement to go out to the airport and practice on my own. Hal and Lorin both say that things will go fast now and we are going to start work on cross country navigation. My cross country solo will be the next really big step. I am hoping to finish up and have my license by the end of August.