[d.burnette]

I am please to report I got it finished, and just completed successfully my first solo training.
Well I say I was successful - never could quite seem to figure out where exactly the instructor wanting me to take off from. I followed the visual guide that I thought would take me to some runway - I ended up just giving up, in a fairly smooth area of the grass, and took the plane off. Flew around freestyle I guess, kept getting message to join formation but never new where it really wanted me to go.

So I ended up just flying for a bit then set her down successfully in an open field - I figure that was a success for me anyway.

Now to see about doing some actual fighting...