Big Boy Service in Waco

Watch out for that .. Antenna Array

Waco Departure: N422LC, are you familiar with the large antenna array with a maximum height of 2500 feet at your 2 o'clock?
N422LC: Affirmative, however I think I'll be climbing a few hundred feet right now (as I am at 3000 feet).

Lesson learned: Don't be in a hurry, always review your route of flight for any obstacles on your sectional. Even if you've just flown the opposite direction

Pre Solo Cross Country Checkup

A quick dash over to Taylor with my instructor for a pre Solo Cross Country Checkup.

Flightdeck Gallery

Southwest Boeing 737 - Steam Gauges

 

They let me fly this thing?? Nope .. they sure didn't :)

 

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