First Passenger + Another Scholarship!! (Globalair)

I finally flew my brother Labor Day to a small local airport! Sadly, we got started late so everything was closed it also being a holiday. What a cute place! We met Lee, he was watching his sons while they were gliding. I had some trouble mishearing a glider pilot on the radio while landing (the airport we went to was uncontrolled) but this is what being a Private Pilot is all about! Learning, every flight is learning!

So Labor Day with my brother was also my first official flight taking a passenger! I can't totally sugarcoat it tough, while the flight went without a hitch and I got a good 1.9 to add to my Cross Country hours in my logbook, my brother was slightly intimidated because I did 3 go arounds at the small airport. I let him know my landing wasn't fantastic, but he thought I was smoother I suppose? NOT unsafe at all, nope! Just a little wobbly, but that's what happens when ya girl doesn't fly as often as she'd like! Not because of weather because the weather is BEAUTIFUL right now! But because of money...it's hard to spend a whole weekly paycheck from 20 hours of working on about 2 hours of flying. Mentally that can be hard, but you know what's cool? I haven't regretted it thus far. Ever time I hack over the cash thinking "Abbie that's a LOT of money are you sure??" but I KNOW I'm sure when I get to see my brothers smile, or do a night landing with the runway lights all lit up, and as cheesy as it sounds I don't regret it at all. Even more so, I love telling pilots that I passed my PPL, because while it was only 3 months, I really felt like I waited and worked and saved up money for years - because I did!

BUT SOME GREAT NEWS Y'ALL:

Thanks to Globalair, ya girls gonna be in the sky at least for a little while longer now and I’m hyped.

I’m not gonna lie, after my checkride I was so wound up I didn’t even want to fly that much just because I felt like I hadn’t slept right in weeks. But now it’s nearing the beginning of Sep and I feel ready to fly again (more). And you know $$$ is always hard to come by when you're a student for school AND flying...😅 BUT: I applied for Globalair's scholarship weeks ago (and forgot) and then got the email that I won this past week! That was an interesting day at work, I was fueling a Cirrus and kinda chilling leaning on the wing and enjoying the breeze and the sun when I thought "man, how am I ever gonna get 50 more hours and be able to pay for that ON TOP of my IFR training..??" I obviously know the stats on flying, I know it's super hard just overall to become a pilot. I knew this before I started, I know it now, it's not easy to forget! But then later that day I checked my email after work and saw I won the scholarship!!! I'm so grateful for this, it will keep me flying that much longer. It increased my confidence in my future. AND this scholarship gave me hope. I really do stress to people that applying to scholarships is NOT useless, they need to do it!!

Check out the site, it's awesome to have resources like this at your help while being a student pilot etc. They have everything from airplane sales to weather available on their site! I'll be using the weather for some upcoming flying...stay tuned!

So, what I want to do by my blog is what I've always wanted to do from the very beginning. I want to show how my life/journey/training/etc unfolds, and how God again and again delivers! I want to encourage and inspire others, and also blog to remind myself on how everything is gonna work out. In the future for example, I might think "hmm, I apply to everything yet never win anything" but then I can just go back and search "scholarships" on my blog and see "oh, actually I won more than I realized, I just forgot." I forget easily! I know I'm not the only one. You pray things and then even when they're answered you forget. We stress about a test and then that test passes and we forget. We think we'll never be smart enough to take a test or exam and then we pass it. I mean hey, life happens fast! It's hard to remember my locker combo and what I prayed that morning and the answers to my exams! But while I sometimes get lazy with posting to my blog or to youtube, I really do love to look back on memories!! I love remembering the stories I've lived. So I also should mention this scholarship requires that I post to my blog once a week. If anything can keep me accountable to this blog, this be it eh?

NEXT STEPS:

1. this week I'm finishing signing up for Fall term classes.

2. my parents might go to the beach this weekend with the younger siblings, and I'd like to fly there to join them and get more Cross Country hours!

3. I'm applying for more scholarships, working, wanting to film a video on my Checkride Experience because it's overdue!

Thanks for reading if you stayed this long!

What are you weekly plans? What are some things you were worried about that got resolved this past year/6 months?