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Here is My Cross Country Flight For tomorrow
Part of my Requirement towards my LS license

http://skyvector.com/?ll=41.84.....RS:A.K5.C91:A.K5.3TR

looks good and supposed to be good weather too. glad to see you are getting close, tomorrow i am going up with a different CFI for a simulated checkride and second opinion and hopefully if all goes well will be doing my checkride for my private ticket this week.

I sure been to all those places, enjoy your trip looks like a blast, thunder wish the best..

Dave

For what it's worth: The secret to the check ride it to REMAIN CALM. If your CFI is confident enough to allow you to take the check ride then you are ready (whether you think so or not). His (or her) reputation is riding on his(or her) students doing well. I was scared to death and imagined all kind of frightful scenarios during the check. Most never happened. While I was going through the things I was told to do the gentleman conducting the check was listening to a college football game on my radios. I don't know whether he was that big of a fan or if it was a ploy to help keep me calm. The worst thing he did was making me put the hood on and he twisted the 150 around and made me get it out of the mess he created, using instruments only. A piece of cake, because my CFI had me well prepared. So the point of all this is: remain calm, do what you were trained to do and ENJOY the experience. GOOD LUCK......

Gary

Good luck David, I am sure you are prepared. We will be  thinking  about you, let us know the  outcome.

Paul Fiebich

Thanks everyone,
well  had leak on engine,So decided to tear it down to find issue, it happened to only be the exhaust gaskets were bad,So replaced them them took on test flight ,checked for leaks, all was ok So since it was a late start decided to just fly over to a friends private field and back 45 min round trip.... Better safe than sorry I say.
Will try cross country another day maybe tomorrow.
theecoop

Better safe than an engine out in the middle of no where.

damn coop, the huns mus be quite active sabatoging here in our area because i was supposed to get a flight review with another instuctor before my check ride and after some ground work we preflighted the plane, called Flight service, pulled out the plane got all strapped in and ready to go only to have the starter on our cherokee 140 be DOA. so called the maint officer for the club and mechanic will be out tomorrow to determine what all it needs and how soon we can get it back up. but the huns must have fled the area after their sabatoge mission because i went and pulled out the Eros and went on a search and destroy mission with it only to find no sight of them in the area so i made my first 2 smoking flybys of the year followed up with a couple practice landings to include my first ever wheel landing. when this weather breaks it will definately be open season on the huns with no bag limit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well trying again , this wonderful Saturday they are predicting good weather

go coop