[Wingtipvortex]

Well, it's been a while since I finished my ground school. It had always been my idea that I would rather finish that first before I started flying because I have harder times with "book-stuff" than "doing-stuff".

That was a couple months ago now and since then I had stalled ('cuse the pun) partly because I was planning to take a week vacation and I did not want to spend the money.

Instead, at the end of my trip down at Hilton Head SC, I had some money left over, so I took my first flight lesson down there. And boy was it beautiful!!

It was a mild and beautiful day, and we took off from the local airport in a Cherokee 160. We did some basic introductory stuff, like standard rate turns, climbs and descents, maintaining altitude, etc. I believe it really helped that I had done a ground course because most of what my instructor talked about was familiar.

Now I am back in my neighborhood in Northern VA and I have another lesson set up for this sunday. I am freshly motivated by that beautiful first flight in SC and plan to (this time) take regular lessons until I get my PPL, hopefully in a little more than a year.

I have a picture I want to attach but don't know how to do it. It asks for a URL address which I have no clue what that that is and the conventional attachment only allows 100KB. My picures about ten times that.

Any computer savvy pilots here that can tell me how to do it?