Aileron

I am endorsed… as far as the FAA is concerned, as a solo student pilot. We met up for a three hour ground session to review the student knowledge test and all the necessary papers are signed and pasted into my logbook. Still remaining to actually solo is a phase check with the club's chief pilot and Rimas's final thumbs up. I don't feel quite ready for either, but I now honestly think that both are within two or three more lessons. Maybe even more important, it's finally settling into my head that yeah, I can handle a plane by myself.

I learned a new term today. Engineer's Syndrome: where the student feels the need to try out all the wrong things for himself instead of just listening to his instructor.