Never Quit

Of course the wind canceled our scheduled flying lesson on Tuesday as expected, so we rescheduled for next Monday. Guess what, Micki had to go out of town again, family issues she had to attend to. To date, 5 out of 6 scheduled flight lessons have been canceled due to something. These things are no ones fault, not predicted or foreseen, I know what Micki is dealing with and she has my thoughts with her.
Always have a back-up plan.. well one fell in my lap today. Long story short, I found a Cessna 150 to rent from a pair of owners at Noah’s Ark airport, at a fraction of the going rate and a huge bunch cheaper than the Piper Warrior I flew that first day. My dad taught both the owners how to fly in the past years and he’s agreed to attempt to get me to the solo point. Now I don’t know how this will work out, it may not, but he is  a CFII with 19,000+ hours, and if we can stand each other for about 10-12 hours, we might get through this. Once my proficiency has returned and is back up to where it needs to be, I can get signed off for a few airports around and go practice whenever I want.
I did get a check flight from the Cessna 150 owner today, he showed me the whole plane and how they maintained it. It is fully IFR rated and has a color moving map GPS which is awesome. The flight went well, I had a touch of the anxiety come in today, but I was with a pilot I didn’t know, in a plane I didn’t know and the winds were 8-15knots (9-17mph) directly across the only runway (above my personal comfort zone). We flew for about 30 minutes out west of KC, he made a real nice crosswind, no flap landing, all in all a good flight.
The weather looks good for maybe a Tuesday flight, after that it’s going to rain the rest of the week.