IFR to Chicago for Deep Dish Pizza

Today I flew under the hood (check out those foggles) to Chicago.  We stopped at LaCrosse and Madison.  In Madison I got to shoot an ASR approach.  I was excited because it is less common and it provided practical experience for something I had just read about.

Flying to Chicago left me feeling starstruck.  I was handed off from Minneapolis Center to Chicago Center where I shared the same radios with the airline jets flying above me into O'Hare.

Once we landed at KPWK (Chicago Executive), we were able to use the courtesy car...my instructor and I grabbed some deep dish pizza, then we flew home. 3.5 hours both ways, for total time of 7 hours.  I brought home some pizza to Sara, but at that point it didn't look as appetizing.