Cleared direct Gateway.

Day 4:

I was still awake at 1am so I decided it would be a great idea to just stay up until I needed to jump in the shower at 345am.  The plan was to go to the airport, fly, and come home and sleep for a bit then head back for ground school.  I grabbed a Dr. Pepper and a Snickers bar and went out to preflight.   Something told me that wasn’t a great idea but I needed to stay awake. 

Our lesson today was steep turns and power on/off stalls.  I was a bit nervous about stalling the airplane (see where I’m going with this?) but now have an understanding as to how it works and how to prevent them.

Once I turned onto final it became quite clear that Dr. Pepper and Snickers aren’t a good combo when you haven’t slept in 36 hours.  Needless to say we taxiied in with urgency and I made a pit stop at home. 

Later that day I went out and purchased the ASA Prepware CDROM for the Private Written.  I recommend it to anyone who is studying for the written exam.  My parents are intown this week so it’s been tough trying to balance school, family time and study for the written.  Flew again today but no ground school since it was Saturday. 

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