Welcome! The fact that you're working towards a "certificate" rather than a
"license" proves to me that your aviation career in the rec.aviation.*
usenet groups will be successful and flame-free.

Have fun!

By the way, personal experience...5 hours into my PP training I managed to
thump a landing hard enough to shatter the plexiglass windscreen. I was
nearly about to give it up, but 6 hours and 2 weeks later I soloed. I'm glad
I stuck with it, and now 10 years several hundred hours later, I'm finally
an instructor!

"John" wrote in message
om...
Just found this group a few days ago, it looks like it is interesting. I
started taking private pilot cert. lessons this weekend. I logged my
first
two hours. The first half hour was windy and I was questioning why I
wanted
to do this, but we went back out the second day for just over an hour and
a
half and it was great, turned out to be a rewarding experience. My CFI's
name is Lucky (real name not a nickname)
John