The best advice was to stop asking for a raise based on my needs. Instead, I made a short list of my recent wins and how they helped the company save money. Framing it around the value I added changed the whole talk.

Wondering if we're overthinking this a bit. That purple overlay is a neat trick for a quick fix, but like keith264 said, it can look a bit off. I usually just pick two different greens, a cooler one for far away and a warmer one up close, and that solves it without any extra layers.

Wait, is that film actually a big deal though?

My old Midtronics unit did that after about three years. The internal calibration drifted and it would show a full charge on batteries that were nearly dead.

Yeah, I did! I was so nervous, but my instructor said I was ready. He just got out of the plane and told me to do the pattern twice. Honestly, the second landing felt way smoother than the first. What was your first solo like, did you do more than one circuit?