My Solo Progress C

Panorama view over all parts of San Diego on Cowles Mountain.

The last week was quite stressful and demanding for me. I prepared for my 2nd progress check, which would automatically give me the solo-endorsement to go on a flight on my own. I had to study a lot more stuff than in the past few days and still remember all the other things from before as it is a continuous education to become a Private Pilot.

Me and my plane 284LP. I nearly flew every plane of this flight school, but there are some aircraft, which  are just extraordinary and smooth to handle. This plane on the picture is one of these.

So at Friday I had my actual Solo-Check, which went good except for the landings:$ The theoretical part as well as the maneuvers and the handling of the aircraft were considered to be good. However the landing was not what the examiner expected to see at a prog-2 test. Therefore I had to repeat the landing procedures at the next day. This time I passed and was officially authorized to fly the plane all alone.
At Sunday morning I met my instructor on the airfield to get the first solo-flight done. We first did a few landings together and he was certainly convinced that I was ready. So he got out of the plane and left me alone as a Pilot-in-Command. I did 3 full-stop landings and taxied back to my flight school, where my Instructor already greeted me.

View to Gillespie Field from the mountain, which is actually the backyard of
where I live.

Redbird Simulator is a really authentic flight trainings device
to educate students how to react in an emergency in s real flight.