Solo flight with touch 'n' go from Oakland to Livermore and back. Flight #20

Solo flight, after endorsement, from OAK-LVK back to OAK

99348, 1.1 hrs hobbs

Thinking about ATC/calling up LVK with initial position report, forgot to do maneuvers and the ABCDE (not-low-approach) engine-out practice.

Called LVK tower with position etc, then instructed to make Left entry on the 45 for 25L! (this is the short runway) - and report 1 mi on the 45.

Right as I was turning onto the 45, I heard LVK say to another cessna that he didn't know where I was yet, and I told him I was 1mi on the 45. There was another plane (cessna I think) turning crosswind for left closed traffic 25L, and

I was asked to make a 'wide' downwind - well I was already about in the normal downwind and hadn't kept TPA perfectly (was about 250' low) so I slowed down and kept wide to let the cessna go ahead of me.

First approach - ok - T&G, but damn was my heart pounding, probably had 500-700' of runway before the end when I lifted off.

The second was a go-around.

The third was fine, but I asked for the back-taxi making this a 'full stop'

The fourth was a go-around - but by the time LVK was done chatting with another plane, he already pointed to my upwind position for another aircraft to see [so I didn't call go-around].

The fifth I asked for a straight-out departure to OAK and made a decent go-around, touching down early on the runway, keeping speed, and taking off with no delay!

This was all quite hectic, fun, and a good learning experience.

Coming into OAK was nothing unusual - ATC was calm and friendly. I asked for the 180-back taxi and they said something like they were already going to ask me for that.

I aimed for between the numbers and the 500' markings - touching down right on the 500' markings, and turning 180 before the 1000' markings - score one for the short-field technique.

(flaps up, brake) - although this time I braked more smoothly - was more concerned with control than a 'shortest distance' on 27L.

that's about it - an awesome day.

learned a couple of things with a few mistakes - this solo thing is awesome & good for learning (duh).

I left the carb-heat on at the beginning of one go-around and wondered why the climb was soo poor.

The ATC 'wide downwind': I should have asked clarification, or just thought about it before essentially merging with the normal downwind - oh well - no problem and they were nice to me.

Also: It was 34 degrees C in LVK - and I think 30 C in OAK - very hot - the plane definitely had a performance reduction - but nothing too bad.