first solo.

twinprop · Post by **twinprop** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 10:42 pm

tell some of ur expieriences and feeling, that happened druing ur first solo.

shwaman · Post by **shwaman** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:23 pm

hmmm, first solo....lets see....I can remember wondering how many times I would have to touch the wheels down before I actually stayed on the runway! I can also remember after finally settling down on the runway being amazed at how fast I was still going and also amazed at the dramatic effect in direction an accidental slight pressure on the brake can have, and how quickly it resulted in rapid zig-zagging when correcting too aggressively! and finally after all of the zig-zagging was coming to an end, the rapid speed at which I was moving was brought to my attention once again with the sight of the rapidly approaching runway end, I swear the runway shrunk for that circuit!!! All in all it wasn't pretty, but it was all by myself!!!!

... · Post by **...** » Sat Mar 20, 2004 11:24 pm

Well when I solo'd for the first time it was in the shower at the age of 12. I stumbled onto my older brother's collection of Playboy and I felt a tingling in areas I had never felt before.....

..to be continued..

scabber · Post by **scabber** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:05 am

Birddogger......

I bet that same solo feeling is still overwhelming you. Perhaps a female partner could be thrown in the mix?

... · Post by **...** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:10 am

scabber wrote:Birddogger......

I bet that same solo feeling is still overwhelming you. Perhaps a female partner could be thrown in the mix?

you can be done with girls now?!?!?! WTF?!?!

I gotta start going to meetings!

Louis · Post by **Louis** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 12:30 am

In ________ pilots want _____ time.

love : dual
airplanes : solo

Not my best landings ever performance wise, but the overrall great feeling that went with this flight was unforgettable, nor was the cold shower (extra snow) that followed. What's the initiatic ritual in your area? Is there one?

Shiny Side Up · Post by **Shiny Side Up** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 4:31 pm

Hey! Hey! Hey! The first rule about first solos is no one talks about first solos!

Seriously! Its the rule around my school, nothing can deflate a student's confidence than some yap bragging about how he went for his first solo so quickly or something. Besides, if anyone here starts telling about the ceremonial "washing of the airplane" I'll have some of my "people" visit you.

corn-shoot · Post by **corn-shoot** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 5:27 pm

I remember it like yesterday, I did circuits.

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:34 pm

I learned to fly in July 1959 with the Air Cadets. Air Cadets had to solo by 12 hrs instruction or they were sent home. After, I instructed and we sent pilots solo around 12 to 15 hrs instruction. Just curious as to the Industry average now or is there. Cost then was $460.00 and the government returned $100.00. Man, that was expensive. I built up time in a Fleet 80 Canuck for $9.00/hr. wet.

FA28 guy · Post by **FA28 guy** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:39 pm

Central airway had fleets is that where you learned to fly old timer. When i got my private it cost $807.00 in 1967 with the hundred dollar rebate. I really don't remember my first solo exept that it was a circuit.

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 7:49 pm

The Regina Flying Club had a Fleet that they were trying to sell so they were renting it out till it sold. I was building time for my commercial. They had a fleet of Cessna 140,s then. I remember my first solo quite well. Beautiful summer evening off the "grass area" in Cessna 140 CF-HJM. Instructor, the late Jake Clake. It was a hoot.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Sun Mar 21, 2004 8:02 pm

Hmmmm, first solo.

How can one forget.

August 13, 1953 Fleet Canuck CF-EBE Toronto Island Airport on the grass, beautiful summer day...seems like yesterday.

Then there was my first piece of a................... Naw, this is the wrong thread for that one.

Cat

I'd Rather Be Flying · Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:30 am

Ahhh....the first solo. A beautiful day but a busy one in CYXU. Took off behind a Dash 8 and by the time I was ready to land, had to follow another inbound from CYYZ. I can remember landing and taxiing off the active...tower comes on the horn and says: "First solo...well done." What a high! And I'll never forget it!

Fusion · Post by **Fusion** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 5:16 pm

I took off without a clearance, followed too close in the circuit and had to over shoot, and it was special vfr. but when the tower called to yell at my instructor they said my landings were great.

shitdisturber · Post by **shitdisturber** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 8:47 pm

Remember it well, had to wait for the yahoo skydivers and their yahoo pilot to get out of my way before I could go, too long thinking about it. Then I had to try to decipher whatever it was he said to me through those lovely Cessna overhead speakers in his barely understandable english. I still don't know to be honest. Downwind over the nude beach at the Sollingen quarry, ya gotta love Germany!

greenwich · Post by **greenwich** » Mon Mar 22, 2004 9:43 pm

corn-shoot wrote:I remember it like yesterday, I did circuits.

Corn: I couldn't have said it better myself!

G

co-joe · Post by **co-joe** » Tue Mar 23, 2004 11:45 am

My first solo...well she was older and much more experienced, I was so nervous, palms sweaty, lips trembling, and then it was over before I knew it.

Kind of like my first time flying an airplane alone.