Unusual Attitude? me?

Haha, well no this is not the attitude that you're thinking! Today I drove into Norwood hoping that I would get to do my first solo flight to the practice area. However, the left over clouds from yesterday's storm kinda hampered that plan. Although, the reports were saying the cloud ceiling was at 2900'. Since my allowance is that the clouds have to be at 3000' for student pilot limitations, that idea was shot down. So we went on to the next lesson instead - and it was a good thing - as we were departing Norwood climbing up to a desired altitude of 2500' approximately 400' below the clouds.......the cloud layer was at 1900 feet!!!!!! By the time my hour lesson was up, the cloud layer had moved out of the area and it was a beautiful day! Bummer! So, I will be doing my solo practice tomorrow instead.

Today we went up and started intercepting VORs (imagine, invisible highways in the sky that are guided by radio signals from stations on the ground to the instruments in your plane), they are really straight forward to fairly easy to find, you just tune in the radio frequency and select the heading you want to fly and line up the needle in the middle, and there you go, you're tracking a VOR! Wasn't that easy?? Then we also did more time under the foggles to simulate instrument time, and that funny thing called unusual attitude. Basically, my instructor takes control of the plane while I'm wearing my foggles, I put my head down and close my eyes, and he puts it into all different kinds of positions and then tells me to open my eyes and recover the plane to straight and level flight. That was a ton of fun! Then I flew back and performed my short-field landings which went very very well! I actually love landings now!

Overall, a great day, I was definitely born to fly.