Trained on an Avistar. Showed up one Saturday morning, prepared to solo. My trainer was late in showing up, and it was starting to get windy so it looked like 'now or never'. Fired the plane up, taxi'd..takeoff. Hrmm..plane seemed a bit twitchier than I was used to. Must be the wind. Finally brought it down on the cross runway and came to a stop only a couple feet off the asphalt. Not too bad, and the shaking should go away by lunchtime :P. Trainer shows up and I tell him I had solo'ed, luckily I had witnesses. Then he says, 'You did set the dual rates on that radio didn't you? They weren't set because we were using the cord'. Hrm..no wonder it was so twitchy...