This seems familiar..

corey

Flying

I took another trip to Fort Morgan, solo, this Sunday. I had scheduled a couple of hours with my instructor so that we could start reviewing for my pre-check ride check ride, and then my actual FAA check ride.

Turns out, I was missing .4 hours of solo cross country time. I didn’t realize that you needed a total of 5 hours of solo cross country time (plus 5 hours of non-solo cross country time), otherwise I would have tooled around a bit at Sterling when I went up there for my long cross country.

But, the weather was rapidly improving and I was able to jump over to N21180 and schedule a block of 3 hours for it. Hurriedly, I put together my flight plan (pretty much the same as my first solo cross country to Fort Morgan) and calculated winds aloft and all that fun stuff. 45 minutes later I was taxiing down to runway 11L.

It was pretty busy when I got clearance to “follow the two jets to runway 11L” and ended up playing chicken with another bizjet heading to parking. The ground controller was too busy reading an IFR clearance to tell him to “hold short of Alpha 12″ (which is where I was going) – when I was coming at him head on it was really hard to tell if he was moving or not; I wasn’t sure he had stopped at all!

Anyways, I quickly made my turn at A12 and proceeded to follow the two bizjets to the runway. After a somewhat uneventful soft field takeoff (darn it, I keep forgetting you have to steer with your brakes when you do those) I headed out to the north and east for those now familiar checkpoints.

Aaannndd .. it was a long flight. 2.1 hours later, I land back at Jeffco and all is well.

(Though I didn’t have my MP3 player with me, so I was fairly bored while flying around NE of Denver.. nothing around but me and a few cows).

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On another note, I scored a 93 on my midterm for AES 1100 at Metro. Yay!