[dmcummins]

Originally I was going to wait till I got back from vacation, I am taking off for two weeks the first of January. But I'm I got tired of waiting and went ahead and started. I was suppose to start Monday, but the weather was bad, so today was my first lesson. I'm training in a Cessna 172.

So today was easy, a couple of takeoffs and landings, turns, and climbs. The instructor was calm and just basically talked me thru everything. I was a little nervous on the landings. Both times I had to increase the throttle as I was coming in to short. It's not natural for me to control the throttle by pushing a rod in, but I'm sure I'll get use to it. I figured today that I would just basically get to cruise around and make some turns.

So I survived, didn't freak out, and I hope we have good weather on Friday for my next lesson.