Flying

As most of you know I had my first solo last Thursday. To say the least it was way cool. I did three take offs and three landings. I wasn't scared because the flight had been postponed so many times due to weather, so I was ready to get it done. That was until I took off, then I thought to myself crap I have to land this thing by myself now. The first landing was a wee bit skidish, I came in a little crooked and when I hit the pane kind of skidded diagonally. I recovered and took off again and the last two were pretty good. When I was taxing off the runway the Tower told me to exit A3 but I was going to fast, and I tried to make the turn and almost wound up in the grass but since I have cat like reflexes I aborted that and keep going straight and just exited later on at A4. other than that it was really cool and exciting. I have a stage check on Saturday which is where I have an oral exam and a flight with a teacher and they grade me based on knowledge and flying ability. I have three of those on lesson 14, 26 and 30. Lesson thirty is the one where I get my private license. Saturday is my lesson 14 stage check. School is going pretty good, it could be better if I would study more which I am. I made a study schedule of when I will study what. ROTC is getting better it's not so painful anymore. It's getting pretty interesting learning new things and learning how the Army does things it's pretty cool. That's about it for now.