Hey guys! I'm still alive and well. The beginning of school has been extremely busy. I have started on my Commercial License and can tell you that flying is starting to become second nature! Right now I am in stage 2 and need 40 solo cross country flight hours. This is the fun part! I get to choose my destinations for my cross countries and am already thinking about trip to Colorado sometime. My goal is to fly as much as possible this month to try and get this stage done. My instructor Mike informed me that this is the longest part of the training because everything depends on weather and availability of planes. Because I need to fly so much, the combination of the two can mean sometimes I don't fly. As long as I am aggressive with the scheduler then the latter of the two shouldn't be a problem.
You might ask, why not go IFR if the weather is bad? Although I am instrument rated, I have never flown actual IFR, much less actual single pilot IFR. While my training means that I can fly IFR by the book, being in that setting in real life is completely different. I have set personal minimums for myself which means I am not comfortable quite yet going single pilot actual IFR until I have had a bit more experience in it. I hope this year to have plenty of opportunity to do that. IFR flight is as rewarding as it is challenging and I can't wait to do more of it!
I hope to post more in the coming days. But for now, this will have to do for a recap. Later!
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