Plane Project

My second cross-country was from Santa Rosa to Modesto, with a quick stop at Stockton, and back to Santa Rosa.  A nice little trip.  I think I made a mistake in not asking for flight following before I took off at Modesto.  My thinking was that the hop to Stockton is only a few minutes and I would request flight following again there for the flight back to Santa Rosa.  The problem is that Stockton was a little hard to see and it would have been helpful to have radar keeping an eye out for other traffic.  Alternatively, I could have asked Modesto tower for frequency change to Stockton and called them earlier.  Another lesson learned.

Some pictures from my first cross country solo from Santa Rosa to Chico and back.  I was a little busy on the way there so these are from the way back.  I foolishly tried to file my flight plan in the air after Duats had apparently failed to file it for me.  Don’t think I’ll do that again unless I’m on a really significant journey.  It must have taken 10 minutes.  Please say again aircraft type. . . .