I flew to Phoenix and back today to get some long cross country hours.  I needed to get this out of the way for my commercial license anyway.  I departed IFR from KMYF (Mongomery) at about 8:30 and quickly climbed above the clouds.  From Mission bay, I got on to V66 and took that a LONG way.  Eventually I turned north on V95 and flew directly over Phoenix Sky Harbor airport…pretty cool.  I was then cleared for a visual approach in to KDVT (Deer Valley).  After a greaser, I quickly taxied back and departed for KGEU (Glendale).  I stopped at KGEU to gas up, stretch my legs, and grab lunch.

I filed another IFR flight plan back to KMYF.  However, there are no convenient IFR departs from KGEU so I departed VFR and picked up my clearance from Luke AFB approach.  They vectored me back to the airways, and I sat on V66 all the way back to KMYF.  There was a nasty headwind so I was only doing about 85 kts ground speed.  It took forever.  When I got back to KMTF, the LOC was out, but it was VFR so I just canceled and came in visually.  I landed at about 3:30.  Total time away…7 hours, flight time 6.3 hours.  Not to shabby..

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Well so far Grad School at SDSU is going well. I made it through two semesters and have managed to rock the 4.0 for both. It’s definitely been an adjustment. This past semester was especially tough on my schedule. I spent several months eating lunches in my car in a parking garage. All in all I can’t complain to much.
I am sure glad to have a few weeks off in between semesters. The summer semester should be a little easier since I am only taking one class.