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OMG, yes. I've been burying myself in this over the past few weeks, especially. It's been nuts. But I wanted to get this done and do well. I'm REALLY looking forward to having fun with it, because I've been so down to business over it all. :)

I took my checkride yesterday, and passed! I am now a certified PP-ASEL, ready to take to the skies with passengers and all that lovely jazz. Here's how it went. Prior to the checkride: A couple weeks before my checkride, I was flying in a 172N model airplane that started having engine...

I did it! I'm a pilot! Hanging with friends tonight, but a report will follow in the next few days. :). Yayayayay!

Thanks for the good wishes! I really hope I make it! I think I'll take makg1's suggestion and do a post about my experience on Monday. :) I'm planning to spend most of tomorrow AM doing practice work on my own, followed by practice work with my instructor in the later afternoon. Then we...

Sure! I'll write up my experience, success or failure. And if I fail, I'll write up the next one, too. :)

I'm an overachiever (like many pilots, I'm sure). I don't like being anything less than perfect. As my friends keep telling me. "RELAX. You don't have to be the best pilot in the world, Joyce..."

Phase check completed today. I was surprisingly nervous about it, and was even shaking a little in the airplane when doing the runup. Personally, I felt like I was really sloppy and underperforming what I've been able to do in the past, but the phase check CFI basically said I'm going to do...

I round up and pay for the few minutes of the next pilot. Seems polite.

I suppose that's one upside to not having any kids yet. My partner doesn't even want to consider them for another 5-10 years anyways... More time and disposable income for aviation? :dunno: Your path here sounds vaguely like what I expect to happen for me. Lots of little trips for a few...

I wonder how that's going to wind up for me... What kind of R/C planes do you fly?

Good advice. How far do they usually make you come down? All the way to 500 AGL before doing the go around? Or do they set you up for an emergency landing at a runway? Or possibly both/either? My CFI has done both with me.

Thanks for the info. To you and everyone else. These are some great resources for directing passengers to airports in the event that I'm picking them up somewhere I haven't been before.

The CFI tomorrow is actually an ex-DPE, so I'm going to get the deluxe insider's treatment tomorrow. :) I'm actually really looking forward to it. Hope she'll be able to give me pointers and ideas on how to keep things "in the green" on all of my maneuvers and stuff.

Just sharing this here. :) One week to go until my checkride... IACRA form filled out, check. All hourly requirements met, check. Flight maneuvers (slow flight, stalls, turning stalls, steep turns) "in the green" according to the CFI, check. Airplane serviceable for checkride, check...

Aye! On the 8th!

You guys have convinced me. :lol: reservation cancelled, and celebratory flight scheduled for the next day.

With the exception of having possibly two people with me, that's basically my plan. Start small. Go to small airports. Stay close to home. Etc. branch out SLOWLY. Definitely do not want to become a statistic.

You know... I don't think I made the connection that FBOs are the ones you have to pay for tiedowns and stuff... I figured it was the airport itself or something...

Lol. Indeed. My "short" X-C was just a quick hop to KMOD and back to KPAO, and one of the founders of the club I'm at commented, "Is that really what counts for Cross Country these days?" I assume this stuff used to be a lot harder or something?