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Had a nice, relaxing lesson today.  The air was dead calm, which was a nice change of pace from the weeks of gusty conditions that I’ve been dealing with.  We flew over to Lake In The Hills (3CK) for some uncontrolled airport and precision landings practice.  The conditions were so nice and smooth, that I could just focus on my approach and flare technique.  I was eventually hitting the numbers and got some greasers in there.  I could tell my instructor was enjoying the smooth flying as well.

Some success can really build confidence and he said he would have soloed me right then and there, but I still didn’t have my student pilots license.  I say “didn’t”, because when I got home this evening, there it was….