After about 12 flights, numerous touch and go's, 6 dead stick landings and one hit tree I go my chance to solo last night. The plane was flying great - no problems at all, the first flight was very smooth, took off with a bit of a cross wind, that did not cause a problem, took the plane up to altitude and did a bunch of circuits, cam in for some touch and goes, landed, taxied and did another take off, no problems at all. Came around for another touch and go, the landing was perfect, then I gave it throttle to get back up into the air, the engine sputtered then died. I had no altitude, no power and a very short runway for my 7th deadstick. No problems, I was calm, got her down, but ran into the long grass at the end of the runway because I was just moving a bit too fast for the amount of real estate I had left. First Solo was out of the way.

I refueled, and charged the plane for one last short flight as the sun was setting, again, no problems - nice smooth take off roll, and into the air. Did a number of circuits, and touch and gos, came in for a landing - wanting to take off again, but did not flair enough, striking the prop. That ended the night - did about 20 min off of the buddy box (no looking back now), I should have my wings soon.