Great feeling isn't it. I can see the smile all the way from the west coast.

As the guys told me, now you can learn to fly. My suggestions are to make sure you have your second plane well on the way to completion. The first couple months after solo are going to be rough on your airframe. I was told this and it is so. You are going to strart doing more than the basics and on your own. This is what it is all about. You will test your limits and sometimes the test will have some bad results. We have all been there and from my point, I'm still a long way from the point that when one of my planes goes down, that I know it was equipment failure not my dumb thumbs. We only have one guy at the field that we have never seen crash, in fact we have never seen him fly.

At the point you are at now, I was buying props by the dozen. A good day was one that I only used two props, three was normal. It starts to really come together after a bit. Like I said before, it took be over six months of three to four days a week training before I soloed. It took close to two months more before the swelling in my head went down and I could hit the runway every now and then.

I hope that someone got your big grin on film. It's a great day and one to remember. Congrats again.

Don