[Promotum] First solo

[Edmund A. Hintz]

    Flew from Concord to Napa this morning, and finally got that moment
I've been waiting for; my CFI stepped out. It was pretty uneventful,
which is exactly how  I wanted it. The old chinese curse "may you live in
exciting times" applies  to aviation... The main difference was that the
bird's much easier to fly  without all that dead weight in the left seat.
Did 3 patterns at Napa, had some  minor problems but nothing too bad.
Just little things like controlling the rpm  and such. My last approach
was a bit lower than I'd like but ok. Overall it was  rather enjoyable to
pop around up there all by my lonesome. Looks like we'll do  another
supervised solo tomorrow at Rio Vista, then Friday I'll probably be on 
my own. Cool. 

Photo here:

<http://www.hintz.org/solo/>

Regards,

Ed Hintz
ed@hintz.org