On 03/13/07 16:57, Andy Lutz wrote:
Thanks for the encouragement. I did sound a bit scared as I read my first
post. I have heard about most of the things you mentioned in my reading. I
got the test booklet from ASA last year and have read it through a few
times. Without the instructor walking with me through it too, it was
sounding rather complicated to do spur of the moment. But now that I have a
CFI to help explain things one concept at a time, and train to competence as
I need it, I should do much better.

I guess I'm feeling that more may be expected of me than I think I can do.
My instructor, a MCFI, by the way, I trust implicitly. He told me after my
last lesson that most people take their check ride at 65-70 hours and he
thought I may be ready at 50 or less. That is scary too. But as I said, I
trust him and he won't push me beyond what I'm ready for. I want to push out
of my mind that 50 hour comment and not expect anything like it, but it
threatens to hang aroung and plump my ego, and there is no room for an ego
in those small cockpits.

Perhaps you should mention to him how is comment affected you. If you would
have done better without it, he should know. Consider it "constructive criticism" ;-)

I haven't soloed yet and I think I still have a way
to go. I expect I'l be sharing about that here when the time comes.

OK, for now, just breathe! Take lessons one at a time. I'll worry about not
learning what I've been taught, after I've been taught it.

Best of luck, and please keep posting.

--
Mark Hansen, PP-ASEL, Instrument Airplane
Cal Aggie Flying Farmers
Sacramento, CA