Tuesday, May 6, 2014

First Solo Woes

So .. first solo last Friday departing out of KGTU.
Wind was 6 knots on the ground but man, as soon as I got up there it was nothing but shake, shake, shake.
I have about 150 landings under my belt but for some reason I almost broke the plane every time I came in for a touch 'n go I almost gave up and called it a day.

To calm things down a bit decided to just fly over to T74 and hang out over lake Granger for a bit. Spent some time just circling and making sure all was well with the plane as well as with my head.

Then back to KGTU and finally managed a better landing.
The rest of Friday night I was pretty bent out of shape over what happened. A good night's sleep fixed the problem though and now I'm ready to head back up and show that plane who's boss