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.
Archive for March, 2009
Second Solo Cross-Country
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
First X-Country Solo — Chico
Saturday, March 7th, 2009Some 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. . . . 
