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Strangely time seems to speed up for me- I think it's because it's overwhelming and the skills aren't baked in. Takeoffs, for instance, are finally slowing down- I can watch the airspeed come up, observe where we are, choose to rotate, where at first that all seemed to happen in a blur. I've...

I'm posting an update. I've managed to get another dozen hours or so. I'm relatively comfortable with the "four fundamentals" and other maneuvers now, it doesn't take all of my brain to simply fly straight and level, and I've now moved that crisis of confidence to landings. But I at least feel...

I'm not far from you, geographically. I've had more cancellations than flights so far- if everything went well, I think I could fit three days into my schedule. But between no daylight and mercurial weather I could have started at a better time of year, I suppose! I'll continue to book time and...

Thanks for both of these messages (which I'm grouping together). I guess that if my CFI's in the plane, it means there are two of us dumb enough to trust me on the controls :) Thank you. Yeah, there shouldn't be anything different with a throttle on the dash vs a "quadrant" vs a lawnmower vs...

Thanks, I do. Maybe the difference is that I know what I don't know at this point in life! I don't have any pressure (personally or financially) that says I _must_ solo and I _must_ pass checkrides as soon as possible, but I don't know how to benchmark myself to what "normal" is.

I'm a few hours into my student pilot flight adventure. I feel like I'm doing okay, not great. Maintaining altitude is still a conscious effort, and there are a lot of tasks in a standard turn- maintaining altitude, maintaining rate, a little bit of rudder, all while looking outside and...