Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Solo Cross country

Today was the big day, I got to do my solo cross country flight which should be the last of the PPL flying I need for my licence (all 2.9 hrs of it).

I took a few photos for you guys to enjoy along the way:

Parking at Charlotte County Airport, spotted this aircraft parked next to me and thought my Dad might like to see it so took the pic.

Flying between west coast to east coast there really is nothing in between but flat grass land. Unfortunately for pilots this makes it easy to get disorientated but my planning paid off and out of the mist on Lake Okeechobee I found Pahokee (which had been easier to spot at night)
Took this picture of the Naples coastline while flying downwind to land at Naples airport. After my flight I grabbed my books and spent an hour laying on the white sand beach reading my books. after the hour my time was running up on the meter so I went back to the car and headed home, unfortunately I made the silly mistake of brushing the back of my head with my hand while in the car on the way back and half the beach poured down my back! (The sands so fine i'm still finding it an hour later.)


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