so to speak today. I am officially no longer a private pilot.

I am instead, an instrument-rated private pilot!! I successfully passed my FAA check ride today after a rather pleasant 2 hour oral and 1.5 hours on the hobbs meter with DE Lyn Carlson. Special thanks to Ron Rapp and the folks at Sunrise Aviation for helping me reach this personal goal!

I originally thought I would detail the experience here in my blog but I'm still thinking how appropriate that is. If anyone cares to know or has an opinion one way or another, leave a comment at the end of this posting.

I find it rather ironic that the same night that I reflect on this experience, I found this posting on Aviation Mentor to help put things into perspective the part that flight instructor's play in making these dreams come true. I'm still in regular contact with Jonathan Bernath, my primary flight instructor at Hawaii Flight Academy. He has moved on to bigger and better things but I will always be grateful to him for helping me reach this goal and now Ron can be counted in that same company.