First overland solo!

Today I made my first solo trip to another airport and back. That was very,very exciting. The days before I imagined so many things that could go wrong. It was a nice sunny day with good visibility. Wind was 180/15 so a direct crosswind on both runways which made landing a bit tricky. We did three touch and go's on Lelystad before I went on my solo trip and these went OK. Navigating from Lelystad to Teuge is as easy as it can get, but still you can get pretty nervous imagining what would happen if you lost track (I didn't get around to pratice the VOR ;-). Another exciting thing was the turbulance above 'the veluwe', a large body of forest ground where an emergency landing is near to impossible. All in all an exciting lesson and a milestone in my life.

The approach charts above are now, amongst lots of other nice stuff, free downloadable from the AIS Netherlands website.