Passed my Private Checkride!

ettsn

ettsn

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Temp ticket in hand, I'm official! Super excited, exhausted, all at once. :D

I'll post a write up soon. :yes:
 
Congrats and welcome to the club!! Your learning has just begun. Good luck.


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Congrats and enjoy the moment, its always a good feeling.
 
You are now objectively superior to most people. Congrats!!:D
 
Welcome to the club. Becoming a PP is a huge accomplishment and a life-changer. Have fun with your first passengers, keep learning and fly safe.
 
Welcome aboard! Flying simply never gets old. Now you get to share that with anyone you want. Enjoy!
 
Congrats ,now go out there and fly pilot.
 
Good deal! Now go out and fly. I think I learned more (real world stuff) on my first 3 flights as a PP than in all the others.
 
Thanks, guys. Biggest compliment I got from the DPE was "I think you're gonna be a safe pilot" :D

He also really liked my XC planning ("very thorough, complete and well thought out"), and asked if he could keep a copy of all my materials. Pretty proud of that too.

Already started studying the Instrument stuff, and can't wait to get started. I'm not going to officially start on it until I crank up a few more hours and XC hours under my belt, but going to start learning the material now. I've even been working on nailing my altitudes and headings to the Commercial standards, versus just the PP standards. The blade was forged, but you have to hone it to be sharp!

I absolutely, positively treat this as the proverbial "license to learn" and I feel like I learn something every single time I go up, even when I'm not PIC. I hope to never stop learning and improving. In fact, I will probably keep regular lessons with my CFI just to hone skills or work on the little things.
 
Thanks again, everyone. This board has been a tremendous aid to me, both learning about this stuff and as a positive support network. I'll keep working at it, like the wet-ink ticket I am, expecting to learn every time and gain confidence while pushing away overconfidence. I'm still smiling like a dork, and getting really, really distracted at work, thinking about heading skywards! :)
 
If you ever get your own plane, believe me the urge to fly only goes up :)

Congrats!
 
Do share - send me copies of how you planned your flight. I could learn something!

Benjamin

PS - Congratulations! That's awesome. Knowing how long it's taking me and the effort put into learning, training, scheduling and swiping the credit card, this is no small feat.
 
Will do! The files are on my work computer and I'm taking today off, but help me remember next week and I'll send you the lot. :)
 
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