Learn to fly an airplane in a week!

As per Melissa's request, I've been asked to scribble my experience so far in IFS (Introductory to Flight Screening). Gotta love the world of acronyms! So I endured 24 hours of ground school in 1 1/2 weeks, and in my off time, I was asked to go through a 660 page large textbook...not to mention the additional books and sheets they hand to you in a handy-dandy Jeppesen bag. Jeppeson is the name of the company that has created a syllabus for private pilots. There has been a lot thrown at me, but it's good that I have had some experience in my 11 years of Navy live relating to physics/math, engines, navigation (even though i suck at it), and other navy type stuff or else I would have been in trouble. Today was my big flying day. I am no longer an aviator virgin! My flight instructor had me pre-flight the airplane, taxi the plane to the runway, and off we went. He helped me do all of the radio controls to clearance, ground control, and the tower/departure control....but other than that, i was piloting the airplane. Pretty cool stuff, except for the 8-12 knot crosswind when we were landing......my flight instructor went ahead and landed the plane for me and I wasn't going to argue with that! Now Melissa's take on it. I asked him if we had our will up to date. I still can't get over the fact he just started class last week, and he flew a plane today!! Holy crap! And in 2 weeks he will be flying solo - no instructor in the plane, just little old TJ all by himself!!! I hope they know what they are doing. Off to check the will now. Oh, and here is a picture of the beautiful piece of equipment he flew, it was made when we were born!