First flight (in 19 years)

Woohoo!!!! I got off the ground :) When I woke up this morning I looked outside, and it didn't look good. Lots of low clouds and a bit of rain. I drove to the airport though, and over there, it was much better. Still hazy though. I met the CFI, went through the preflight procedures, and off we went. He gave me some headings & altitudes to fly to. Then he had me do a right & left 360 degree turn. He seemed satisfied with my control of the plane. We were going to do stalls, but because of the haze & clouds he decided to stay low and have me practice touch & gos. It really does come back. The first one I did, he had his hand on the throttle. Then I did the next 4 on my own. They all went well except the next to last one, he had me put on full flaps. We were about 15-20ft off the runway, and I was losing airspeed. Then came the stall warning. He told me to nose down because of the stall, and we came down a bit hard. But other than that, it was pretty good :)

After the flight, I asked him if he had a feel for how much time I would need to solo. I thought it would take 7 or so hours since it had been 19 years since I flew. He surprised me by saying it would only take another couple of flights and whenever I was comfortable to do it. I am a little nervous about that, but I did think I did well - in the limited controlled environment that I was in. I need to get more practice so that the coordination of pitch, roll, rudder, throttle, radio work, & scanning the skies becomes more natural. Right now it requires a lot of thought.

One thing that would be nice... if someone made a high res scenery add-on to Flight Sim of the Houston area. It would be nice to learn the area from the air. I would also like a sectional of the Houston area to start learning where all the airspace restrictions are.

My next flight is scheduled for tomorrow morning. But that may change if the weather does not allow us to fly higher like what happened this morning.