Flew Charlottesville > Lynchburg > Farmville > Charlottesville today! 2.3 hour flight in total, lengthy flight but so much fun! Weather was absolutely perfect and despite some minor winds, the winds gods were very nice to me today! Didn't crash land at the two unfamiliar airports, didn't get lost, didn't freak out my instructor, so all in all, great day!
All the logistics behind it is really the big deal of it all. I planned my course, took into account winds, found my true course, found out all the airports' info before leaving, and filed a flight plan with the FAA. Once in the air, I contacted the FAA to tell them I began my trip, contacted Potomac Approach (monitors all traffic in the VA/MD/DC area) to get a transponder code (when you see a blip on the radar, the tail number of the plane is shown, as well as altitude), file a heading, then contacted both a tower-ed and un-towered airport traffic. Also flew via VOR instrument and dead-reckoning. Oh, and I crossed 25 hours of flight time =D
All in all, thumbs up!
Next: my next cross-country with the instructor is a night time solo to Richmond. Then, I'll solo cross country to Lynchburg. Then...who knows. Spending the rest of the day studying for my written because it looks like that'll definitely be over Thanksgiving break. Tomorrow I'm out to a local airport and I'm flying with a friend who got his license about a month ago. It'll be good for both of us and he's showing me a few tricks and I'll be there to help him with some of the nitty-gritty stuff, like talking to the tower. We'll see if boys fly better than girls =P
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