My Commercial 1 stage check is this Wednesday at 8:15am (11:15 Michigan time). If I pass, I can focus my energies and attention on completing my Instrument Rating, which I MUST finish this semester. Please pray for me, that I would pass it on the first try and that I wouldn't let my nerves affect my performance. Thanks.

I'm back! My commercial 1 cross-countries are now a thing of the past! And this morning's trip went spectacularly! The only reason I can come up with is that I was praying hard, and a lot of people were praying along with me. Thank you to all those people ( Read more... )

Weather permitting, tomorrow morning at 6:45 (9:45 Michigan time) I'll be leaving for my final cross-country of commercial stage one. It's also, arguably, the most difficult cross-country I've had to fly yet. I would greatly appreciate prayer.

I just got home from my solo flight to Sierra Vista. This was my do-or-die test to see if I'm okay to solo into a towered airport. It went as well as I could have hoped for. No complications at all. I'll most likely end up flying my final cross-country on Wednesday morning. My friend, Isaac, is flying that cross-country right now. He's going ( Read more... )

My interest list is now updated. But that's not altogether too important. What IS altogether important is that today is our first Arizonaversary!!! We first set foot on dusty, Arizona soil for the first time one year ago today. And what a year it's been.

I know this can't possibly be significant to anyone but me, but I think I'm going to redo my "interests" list this afternoon. I'd do it now, but I have to get ready to maybe fly to Sierra Vista. There are, apparently, storms developing in the vicinity, so flying may not be happening today. Oh, well. At least there's still my Tucson flight ( Read more... )

Yesterday was the first step in my plan to accomplish my final cross-country before my Commercial 1 stage check. The cross-country requires me to fly into Williams Gateway, a busy, towered airport underneath Phoenix's airspace. My problem is that I'm not very comfortable dealing with air traffic control, so I need to take steps to get comfortable ( Read more... )

I just got home from my local solo. Since the point of the flight was to help prepare me for the cross-country, I decided to fly over to Bisbee Douglas International and do a few touch-and-go's. BDI is only about 6 miles from here and it's not towered, so it tends to be the "practice airport" for students. Until today, I was frightened of making ( Read more... )

I was supposed to fly a local solo on Friday morning, as a means of preparing for my final Commercial 1 cross-country. I got as far as the end of the runway, when it became obvious to me that my vacuum system had failed. The vacuum system powers the attitude indicator and the heading indicator. I technically could have still made the flight, as ( Read more... )

After a largely uneventful day of travel yesterday, we made it back home safely. We had a really great time in Michigan, and I'll try to post some pictures (if not on here, then on my Blogger) soon.