Well, as I mentioned in the cafe, I turned 40 last week. My wife really gave me a wonderful gift! An hour and a half in a Piper Cruiser! Before I flew, I registered and am now enrolled with The Nassau Flyers Training School at KFRG! When I was done, I received my official log book and officially have 1 hour of stick time in there! I basically flew 99% of the flight! Did a precheck of the aircraft, hoped in, started her up and then away we went. I taxied to the runway and took off! It was a bit windy with 18 to 20mph gusts so the minute we took off, we were bounced around a bit! as we climbed up, it calmed down a bit! Flew out over my house then over the North shore of Long Island. Headed East out to Port Jefferson then North again over to Connecticut. Turned around and flew over to the South shore for our approach and landing. Since it was a surprise, I did not have my Nikon digi but at least I had my old Olympus digi in the glove box! Here are the shots and then I will post where I went after!!































































MY HOUSE is just right of the four smoke stacks! Those stacks are the "visual" when departing straight out to the North from KFRG.
I am really excited that i am now registered with them and can now just schedule some flight time! The instructor I was with is 31 and flies twin engine props. He has his applications out there at a few of the regionals! It was real exciting and not much different than the sim except for the bouncing around! Will post some shot of where and what I did after we landed!!!