After a long week of entirely fogged in mornings, and therefore no flying, today was just about as perfect as it could possibly be. Unfortunately my instructor was all booked, but that didn’t prevent me from going for a flight by myself.

This past weekend I went flying twice, something I’ve not yet done. Usually I only fly Saturdays because my instructor takes Sundays off, but this weekend I was on my own, allowing me to fly both days.

As frustrated as I was with my performance in my last lesson I was anxious to get back up in the air again today and prove to myself that I was capable of gentle landings.

Afternoon flight lessons are always an interesting experience for me, both the temperature and wind speed pick up in the afternoons; makes for fun flying.

A family vacation can only entertain me for so long before I need to go flying again. Fortunately I had arranged to go flying with an instructor while on vacation in central Florida. For some reason or another I found an instructor foolish enough to go up with me for a couple hours out of Sun State Aviation.

I have a lot of respect for both my flight instructor and his judgement, but for one reason or another today we taxied back to the parking area, he stepped out of the plane, wished me luck and told me to go fly some circuits. Leaving me to fly the plane by myself, without adult supervision.

As I creep precariously close to my first solo flight, the only things stopping me right now are weather, and myself. When I called to get a weather briefing last night, the outlook for this morning’s lesson was not looking positive at all. I had some doubt that I would be able to fly at all given the low hanging clouds and higher winds that have been moving in to the bay area.

Due to some scheduling challenges, my instructor and I decided to move up our standing appointment from Saturday to Friday in order to ensure that I got two flights in this week.

I’ve had a good cadence of writing post-flight-lesson blog posts, so how about another one!

Last Saturday my instructor and I decided to head out to Livermore for our work on approaches and landings. With temperatures in the triple digits (38+ for the non-Americans) around the Bay Area today, we decided to look for cooler air this weekend towards Napa County’s Airport (KAPC).