Night Flight Landing: Video

My wife Sara back-seated on Lesson 15 last night of my Private Pilot training.  Check out this video she took of one of my landings.

First Solo

It's taken me 15 flights and 24.4 hours before I did my first ever solo flight today.  I started my Private pilot training on October 12, and here I am about two months later completing my first solo.  We started with a dual flight, 3 takeoffs and landings so my instructor could be sure that I was prepared to fly alone.  After that, I kicked him out, did 3 takeoffs and landings and I'm still here to write about it.  My instructor was available the entire day and helped me progress through 5 lessons!

Juggling Act: 3 Jobs + Night (and weekend) School

So, I'm starting to realize how adding one more thing to the "plate" is going to feel like a lot.  Here's a look at my calendar last week...

The blue is my teaching job.  In the mornings I go to Moreland where I teach one class of elementary school Phy Ed.  Then I head over to Heritage Middle School, depending on A day or B day I have different start times, but not really enough time to go home or do anything else... so I just go to school.  I'm planning on using the gap in the morning to study, but we'll see what happens.

The red/pink is coaching.  Football season ended a bit ago and now I'm coaching middle school wrestling.  The green is my job at Concordia University where we live and where I supervise the RAs in Holst Hall.  The purple is my flight training on the weekends and now I have face to face ground school class that has started up on M & W.

But hey, got to see Brian Regan this weekend with our friends so can't complain!