flew my first (real) passenger today

i flew my first (real) passenger today. the reason i say that is that your first passenger is actually the FAA pilot examiner. today, a friend that got his license a month or so ago were going to fly from Leesburg (JYO) to W45 (Luray). we needed to be back by 10 because there was another reservation after us. we wanted to go to W45 because that would let us start accumulating cross country (flights greater than 50 miles) hours to qualify us for instrument training (he would fly down there and i would fly back). the plane needed gas and oil so we got started later than intended. the route we were going to take was a 170 radial from JYO to the 232 radial from MRB. that radial would take us there via FRR (Front Royal). when we got to FRR we could see that going any further would probably make us late getting back so we elected to land in FRR and switch seats. we headed back via the same route and arrived at 1000. unfortunately, the DG (directional gyro) was still frozen which meant that the next guy (who was going to fly IFR to PHL) could not use it so we shortened our trip for nothing. it was still an excellent little trip.

one more thing, a couple of days ago i mentioned that a flyer at JYO (the paper kind) said to monitor guard on 123.0 (rather than 121.5) while using the JYO notch in the DC ADIZ. i have asked two instructors since seeing that and neither know about that change and both think it might be a typo in the flyer.

another update on this. i called the FAA today and they said that the 123.0 is incorrect and that you should continue to monitor 121.5.