Well, my first time flying on a Saturday morning in the San Diego area. I am pretty sure everyone that owns an airplane was out flying as well. Two minutes after our initial takeoff, as we're climbing to 3200 for the coast, moments after turning north up the coast (see todays flight path picture) a Cirrus blew by us heading the opposite direction no more than 200' low and a couple thousand feet to our left. Rather close considering. The radios were buzzing with chatter once again. We continued north to the northeast practice area. My instructor pulled the engine on me a couple of times, I still need to smooth out my engine-out flow some more. We went through all of the manuevers, some of them twice. Continued to Ramona for 2 short field landings and 1 eng-out landing. That was rather exciting. Just after taking off from Ramona, after our first landing, my instructor pulled the throttle on the leftt engine, simulating an engine out. I then flew the pattern and landed with the single engine. At this point the one thing I really need to work on is establishing the correct airspeed in an engine out situation all while running my memory checklist as quickly as possible. When we finished the flight we jumped in the FTD for 2 more hours, the last time I will be in the FTD prior to my Multi-Engine Add-on Checkride this Tuesday. I took a low quality picture of the FTD with my phone
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