faasafety.gov

If you're not familiar with it, http://faasafety.gov/ is an excellent site for learning and they also have regular safety related events. I went to one yesterday at the Fairfax County Government Center and saw 3 speakers on several topics. Each was excellent and well worth the time.

firsts...

So, for the first time in my life today I flew alone in an airplane. I did my first solo today (in a Cessna 172R, N409ES to be specific). This involved going up with the instructor for a couple of landings so that he knew I could do them ok. Then I went up by myself and did 3 full stop landings. Each landing was decent and I didn't have any fear/concern at all.