The day was finally here. The day I got to climb into a Cessna 152, start her up and take off without anybody by my side! All alone, only me, my Cessna and the surrounding air. A feeling so magnificent it's difficult to describe!

It started at 9am, when me and Kristian sat down with Anna to review the presolo test, that makes sure we're ready to go! After that I preflighted the plane I took Anna for a short flight to see if everything was in place. After two rounds in the pattern, I taxied back in and Anna got out. I restarted my engine and annouced my first solo on the Unicom as I taxied towards runway 22. I thought I would be nervous, but when I sat there at the start of the runway, I really wasn't. I felt that this is something I know how to do and that I was ready for. Incredible feeling. I gradually accelerated down the runway and rotated the nose towards the sky at 50 kts before the rest of the plane lifted off the ground and I was airborne! If anybody had heard what was going on inside the cockpit, they would surely think it was a mad man, cause there were quite a few screams of joy as I ascended upwards!

I did 3 take-offs and 3 landings in total and logged half an hour. I finished the whole thing off with my best landing ever. Almost didn't feel the wheels touch the ground!

Mandatory ceremony afterwards where I received 2 buckets of water after stepping out of the plane. It was quite refreshing, cause the cockpit has a tendency to become rather hot in the summer heat!

It is all captured on tape, so that I can look back on my first solo when I reach 100!

Tomorrow me, Bernt and Kristian are going out flying solo on the same time. We're all going out in te practice area a couple of miles northwest of the airport. Exciting, though I'm a bit afraid I'll be having difficulty finding my way home. The scenery here is so flat, it's hard to find good points of reference.