Blimey - some replies! Wot a friendly bunch! . .. .WAHAY!!! back to you Saab D. Mutual plaudits all round! Have to admit, the QXC is the bit I'm most brickin' it about, in a kind of can't wait way... Have you done everything now?. .. .CBG - Yep, both those things happened to me too. The congratulations from the tower made me feel like I was in Star Wars or something. Never fear, I have great plans for my PPL - which suddenly looks a good deal closer. . .. .And to djk - believe me, I know how you feel! I was told I'm 'so nearly there' for so very long and was daft enough to tell all my friends the first time my instructor gave me those empty promises , so they kept asking me how it went every time they saw me. Tell you what, though - I was worried it would be an anticlimax after all that waiting, but it wasn't. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> . .. .Suppose there'll be a lot more now that spring is nearly upon us.