Today is another important day to remember apart from 5th Oct and the aircraft this time was LTJ. Finally came the moment for me to do my solo after 5 hours of intense teaching from MS, the assistance chief instructor. He reminded me of Gandaff, old and wise. Coaching under him made my flying so much better. He was able to point out all the bad habits I had, the consistent mistake I made. He enlightened me the ease of flying with all my mistake corrected.
Yes, he set high standard for me to clear under him but he made sure that I learn well and progress to his standard. I really admired his patience and professionalism. Hope I would keep up the standard and not let him down. Thanks to him the 5 hours of teaching and that really made me a better pilot.
However, the greatest person that made thing turned out this way was God... Glory be unto Him. I heard from the sermon recently that God intervention is never early and never late. Never early so that to train us to be patient and continue to wait with faith. Never late for obvious reason. Once again, through this trial, my faith level was tested.. my patience and never give up attitude was toughened. I had come out stronger. I prasie God that I went through it with victory.
Thru this trial, I was once again humbled. I thought I knew everything about flying a circuit. However, these 5 hours of flight under wise old instructor taught me lots of aspect of flying I lacked. For example, listening out for radio call, looking out for traffic, follow through action after landing. I must say I learned so much more than the previous flights from other instructors. I want to thank God for bringing me through all these... Time had not been wasted because right now I am stronger than I use to be.
