On May 3, 6:20 am, wrote:
On May 2, 1:15 pm, "ManhattanMan" wrote:

wrote:
On May 2, 12:55 pm, Erik wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote:
Just remember your CFI consider's you ready to solo. Doubtless, his
job (if not more) is riding on that decision if you should become an
incident or accident statistic.

Famous last words: "If anything happens, just make sure your
logbook gets burned up!"

Will I be in radio contact with him? Does it matter?

Mine went up in the tower to keep tabs on me - even had the controler remind
me to watch my pattern altitude

I'll be flying out KLBX (untowered airport). He does have a hand held
radio. Can he just give me a frequency. Somehow I feel a lot more
comfortable not talking to him...lol


The funniest thing I recall was the other 'stick' (it was a MS880b)
moving round without the 'real' pilot :-)