Today N5356F was back from its 100-hour inspection, and the weather was decent, so I finally managed to go on my long cross-country flight. I flew to Baton Rouge, then on to Lafayette, and then direct back to Hammond. The whole flight was actually quite unremarkable. No airliners chased me down, I didn't get lost — nothing worth recounting happened at all, really. Which I guess is a good thing.

Just about the only mistake I did make was due to the fact that I seldom fly N5356F. Most of my training has been in the other Warrior, N1288H. And so, out of force of habit, when I filed my flight plan and made my initial call to Baton Rouge Approach, I reported that I was flying N1288H. It was only about 20 minutes into the flight, when I requested Flight Following from Baton Rouge Approach, that I realized I had given them the wrong callsign, and had to correct it. But it was no big deal, and after that everything went smashingly. Now I'm up to about 32 hours. That 40-hour mark is getting pretty close.