If my calculations are correct after this past weekends cross country flight I now have 133.6 flight hours, 6.5 night hours, 19.4 PIC hours and 3.2 hours of simulated instrument training with all of my required flying done ahead of the written and flight test for the Private Pilot Certificate. This is good news, of a sort, since it means that the first major phase of flight training is nearing an end. And with AvGas at nearly $5.90 a gallon it couldn’t happen soon enough.
I now have to do a few more brush up flights to stay frosty, start figuring out my plan of attack on the written test, take one more check-ride with another instructor then it’s off to the final flight test and oral test. Normally this would make people happy but I am going to take it easy and make sure everything goes smoothly. It’s been a long road to get to this point and there is no reason to blow it at this last stage.