FlyGirl

My daughter and I are off to LA for the weekend to visit my brother and his wife. We haven't seen them since we "crossed paths" in New Jersey at my parents' summer home a few years ago.

My daughter had a wonderful time the last time that she got to hang out with my sister-in-law (a schoolteacher, by the way) and I know she is looking forward to doing so again.

Since I passed my checkride, I have chosen to join a club called BASA (licensed pilots only) and am in the process of getting checked out in their (our?) Grob 103. It's a multi day checkout, so I did part last week and will complete it on 8/11/07.

Whoo Hoo!!!

What a great 6 days it was.

I decided to get my glider rating in Truckee, CA... I spent 5 days there doing the "total immersion" technique of learning how to glider fly (i.e. I did little else for all those days). In order to get a commercial add-on, I had to get in 20 solo flights and, of course, do all the prep work for the oral as well as the actual flight check.

I passed my checkride and am now a licensed glider pilot!!!