Alright. Time for a long overdue update of what has been going here in El Cajon. By now I have completed my first solo flight and also my second solo fight has been made. The landings took a little longer to perfect so I didn't solo until my 29th hour of training. The next step is to go on the cross country flights. These are flights made with a navigation log along several waypoints and landing at airports that are unfamiliar. First you plan a route yourself an...

9-10 Today is the day that I'll be going flying! We booked the flight from 6 till 8. For some reason we started at 5 pm and we went over the traffic pattern (circuit) and the landing and take off configuration. It was interesting stuff to learn and I should make a cheat sheet for the traffic pattern and the configurations. He wrote it down in paper and I decided I'd make a copy of it in Word for easy reading. After all that has been done we went to the apron to...

6/7/8 -10 During the weekend (6/7) there's not much to tell, did some groceries, studied a bit and we, the Dutchies, went out to Pacific beach to see how life is on the west coast. It was nice, only thing that sucked was they require passport ID's for clubs to get in and I didn't know that so I wasn't allowed in with just my Dutch drivers license . On Sunday evening I got an email from my instructor to be at the school @ 9.30 on Monday and I got emails from th...

3-10 Alright when I woke up it was still dark outside so I went to the viewing cart to see the sunrise. This was again beautiful to see! I arrived in LA in the morning and I had to transfer from the Southwest Chief to the Pacific Surf liner. After a short while riding the new train we were driving along the west coast. There was a blue sea with rather big waves and palm trees on the beach. This was what I was expecting and it even looks better then on tv! The...