FIRST SOLO - AGAIN
Written: 03 MAY 2004

I've been making good progress with my first two students, Paul Jones from England and Ed Lustig from Holland, and I sent them both on their first solo this weekend, which was just as exciting for me as it was for them.

I've been working at the school here for about 3 weeks now and have so far logged about 50 hours. There is alot of flying at the moment, but it will probably quiet down towards the summer. It is pretty hot here at the moment. The temperature is crawling up over 30 C almost every day and the sea temperature in the end of April was 27 C. Florida is notorious for its thunderstorms in the summermonths, and in the last couple of days we have gotten a little taste of what the future will bring.

We have to be at the school from 8 to 18 every day, which can be pretty exhausting. I've started bringing my pc to work so I can use my "idle" time efficiently. Today was my first day off, and I will have the Monday off every week now. I spent the day doing different stuff I had to do, but had to stop by the school for a little ground instruction in cross country planning.

I've also started to transfer my hours into my JAR-FCL logbook (the european). Seems to be a pretty large project, so I figured our I might as well start.

We spent this Saturday at the beach and in the jacuzzi again. This is about the only time we have to relax. Our trip to the beach was interrupted by a thunderstorm, but as true vikings, we were the last ones off the beach. After the weather had calmed down we headed straight for the jacuzzi.

This week I'll be flying alot of cross country with my students. Hopefully I'll get Ed ready for the checkride by the end of this week.

I've posted some more pictures in my gallery:
NAPLES PICTURE GALLERY