Today’s cross country flight was awesome, giving me lots of motivation. After yesterday’s day of lousy check points I picked less check points but ensured the ones I chose were easier to find for today's flight. So as I lifted off runway 28R and I started identifying checkpoints easy. With more time on my hands I was able to get ahead of the aircraft making life easier. Soon SOCAL (local area controllers) approach handed us off to John Wayne’s tower. After checking in I was approved for the left downwind for 19L. As I turned base, tower gave me approval to land, and notified me to watch for the traffic on 19R (a Canadian Regional Jet (CRJ) ). I briefly looked over to see the jet behind and to the right. After a soft landing, we were taxing alongside Southwest and others, so cool! The tower was in a hurry to get me airborne again, but they were patient. So we were headed off to French Valley airport. After being chased by a Pitts (small fast bi-plane) we were given approval “assume own navigation”. With this notice I was frantically looking for my next check point, and then a little doubt came in. Soon I figured out where we were, Brett was smiling as he said “trust your plan, they have been great do not doubt them, fly them” So I did and soon found myself setting up for landing on runway 18 at French Valley.
After a brief break we were airborne again and headed back to Montgomery. The return leg went well so we covered the use of radio navigation and its benefits.
As we taxied back, after landing on 28L the debrief started. Thankfully Brett was happy and gave me a bunch of pointers to make my life easier and provided guidance for the areas that needed help. After he signed my logbook, I was told to prep for a quick trip to Carlsbad/Palomar tomorrow. I headed home happy and prepped for tomorrows flight.
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