Solo!

Finally after a week of rain and bad weather, I passed the checkride and took the T-34C out, sans instructor, on my first solo. The more I think about it, the more I find it slightly ridiculous that the military entrusts me with a million-dollar airplane after all of 25 hrs in the front cockpit. Fair warning to all civilian pilots: STAY AWAY from southern Alabama. The skies are filled with student aviators with entirely too little experience flying airplanes with entirely too much power.
That said, I'm glad the Navy and the taxpayers let me do it. Theres a real peace at 8000 ft with nothing but you and the steady humm of a turboprop...