Personal milestone
I'm sure that you chaps will appreciate the significance of this.
After an NST pass a week or so ago, my first "right through" student got a first time pass in his NPPL GST today.
It was an NPPL(M) --> NPPL(SSEA) upgrade appropriate to my CRI, and it's additional to some other instruction I'd done: conversions / tailwheel mostly. But it still feels like a significant milestone in my flying, and I'm really quite proud of it.
I'll arrange to talk to the examiner in the next couple of days for a debrief on how well trained he felt the student was - I'm sure that there are more learning points than the many I've received en-route so far, and I'm determined to get them and hopefully any future student will get the benefit of that.
But in the meantime: damn that felt good!
(Mind you, the student seemed pretty chuffed when he phoned and told me as well!)
G