Heh
I fly/flew a Diamond DA-20 for the training - fun little bird, got a stick control and throttle quadrant (and GPS! woohoo!
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And yea, it does feel good
We're flying out of a Class D airspace with a single 10,000 foot runway (paved, obviously). The area's great for training because you have all that runway room if you screw up, but there's almost no traffic nearby so you can do touch and gos all day and not think twice about it. Then, if you want some busy airspace, San Juan Intl. is just to the North, and that's pretty busy Class C there
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The checkride wasn't too bad...I did have a "oh God I just totally flunked why doesn't he end it now?" when he put me under the hood and did some unusual attitudes. I recovered from those fine, but then he told me to find my island's VOR, and I got lost almost instantly - lucky for me I flew well and he let me continue the checkride.
Afterwards he told my instructor that I flew like a 250 hour pilot, so I was pretty happy about that
Good luck with getting yours Badger
. Hasn't your instructor been prepping you? You might want to practice your power on/off stalls, if you want something different.
