Mo Bettah Flyin

(15 Oct '06/Lake City, FL/Casio EX-Z750)
(not that it's anything great as a photo, but, you know)

So i'm through the cross-country phase now, except for the last stage check. It's a nice confidence builder to discover that you can actually fly to another state, find an airport, and land, all without overly alarming any local pilots or air traffic controllers, or motorists. Especially motorists. Your instructor would also likely appear in that list of interested parties, except that in this phase, he/she is unable to become alarmed, as he/she is no longer in the airplane. This has its pros and cons.

Night flight was nice. Those were last month. We flew up to Amelia Island, where i could enjoy the little feeling of absolute power that comes with turning on the lights of an entire airport for yourself by clicking your mike button. Next, we went to Jax International, where i was suitably re-humbled by having to detour for passenger-laden 757s approximately eighty-six times my size. I think the tower forgot how slow a Cessna 150 is. Halfway through my touch-and-go i heard them tell the airliner behind me to do another circle. They sounded grumpy.