Thursday, June 21, 2007
firsts...
So, for the first time in my life today I flew alone in an airplane. I did my first solo today (in a Cessna 172R, N409ES to be specific). This involved going up with the instructor for a couple of landings so that he knew I could do them ok. Then I went up by myself and did 3 full stop landings. Each landing was decent and I didn't have any fear/concern at all.
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Congratulations! Good job, and good luck with the new instructor!
nice work - fun innit???
Fantastic - Does this mean you're officially a pilot now?
This just means that I've learned enough to take that airplane up and bring it down again at the same airport (relatively) safely in controlled conditions. "officially a pilot" means a whole lot more training in other things such as navigation for cross country flying, unfamiliar airports and being able to handle emergency situations.
One advantage of training in the ADIZ btw is that it causes you to have to get familiar with flight plans and more stringent radio communications procedures earlier in training (I think).
CONGRATS!!
What a great feeling on your own. It didn't hit me until I locked the plane up, I couldn't get the key in the lock!
On to XC work!!
Congradulations.
Congratulations! I just did my first solo (in 19 years actually) on June 26th. So it will be cool to keep up with your progress as I go through my training.
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