KOWX..... Fun Times

As I progress in my training I find that the more experience you get the more freedom and fun opportunities you receive. As a student pilot in your first 10 hours or so its mostly maneuvers, pattern, maneuvers, pattern. As I grow near 30+ hours the freedom of being able to stray away from the usual and enjoy flight more for what it truly is seems great. We flew to a couple airports today including KOWX which is Ottawa Airport. I really wanted to do this for a while for I love Ottawa basically grew up there in a sense and wanted to see their airport not just from the fence. Overall it was a cool airport pretty dead but good runway. Then my instructor proceeded in taking me to Pandora for some grass strip work. It was real fun and tought, hands on soft field training. Even though it wasn't real soft. As we rolled to a stop to get our plane refueled a saw the Learjet taxi in from landing and people get off with enlightened smiles on their faces. It reminded me exactly why I fly and cant wait to be in the cockpit of one of those someday.
Until Next Time,
Ian

No one to the right

Solo flight is what I flew yesterday, It was fun for I havent been up by myself in a while. I flew the pattern the whole time for I was trying to not be high like I always am. Although being high is better than low I still wanted to hit the altitudes dead on. First landind was a good one perfect pattern into a nice landing. The second one however was a bit different. As I came in my approach was spotless. Im over the runway and start to flare. For one reason or another I was a little higher than I should of which in result made a hard landing. I have never really experienced a truly hard landing until that. So just to be safe I came back and had my instructor take a gander at the plane make sure it was okay. He said it was probably just harder than I usually do and it actually wasn't as bad as I think. All in all it was a fun day and cant wate to do it again.
Until Next Time,
Ian