Thanks for the kind words, chaps.. .. .I'm still on a huge high, of course. It's just getting better as it sinks in. At the time it felt a bit like just another circuit - apart from the first time you glance to your right and there's nobody there - but hey, I'm fairly busy in the circuit and there's not too much time to think about it. Afterwards it's not just another circuit. I've done plenty of circuits where my instructor hasn't done anything, but that's the first one where he couldn't. Cool <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> . .. .The other feeling I've got is a realization of how little I actually know, which I haven't really had since I started learning. Back then everything happened too fast, the RT could have been in greek and I was only doing one of the six things that needed doing. That feeling passed, but I guess it never really went away - I just got used to a friendly FI covering the things I was missing. Now I'm probably doing five of the six - might even manage the lot sometimes - but suddenly there's nobody to cover the one thing I might have missed. It's a big sky up there and I don't have a tenth of the awareness of it that my instructor has. I'm not overly worried, but it's a useful eyeopener.... .. . <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="smile.gif" />