First Solo flight today!!

[Cossack]

Hey everybody, im new to this group but I just had to tell people that
I did my first solo flight today! Bring on the congrats :) Without
warning, my instructor told me to pull up the the terminal, and got out
of the plane and told me to do a circuit on my own. It went great....I
didn't flare quite enough on the landing, but it was still one of my
better ones. When I got back my insturctor dumped a bucket of water on
me and I suppose it was some sort of tradition in my flight school.

P.S. Flying solo is so much more fun than with an instructor aint it?
Nobody to look over your shoulder analysing your every move :P

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[Jose[_1_]]

> I did my first solo flight today!

Congratulations! Ain't life AMU!

> Without warning...

Solo hadn't been discussed at all in the previous few lessons?

> ...and told me to do a circuit on my own.

Just one? Traditionally it had been three.

> When I got back my insturctor dumped a bucket of water on
> me and I suppose it was some sort of tradition in my flight school.

The one I'm familiar with is tearing your shirt. I escaped that. (I
would have been ****ed at ripping up a perfectly good shirt)

Jose
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[Jay Honeck]

> Hey everybody, im new to this group but I just had to tell people that
> I did my first solo flight today! Bring on the congrats :)

Whooo-hoo! Way to go!

> Without warning, my instructor told me to pull up the the terminal, and got out
> of the plane and told me to do a circuit on my own. It went great...

That's the best way to do it -- you don't have a chance to get nervous!
My CFI did the same thing to me, and it went great.

> When I got back my insturctor dumped a bucket of water on
> me and I suppose it was some sort of tradition in my flight school.

Whew -- I'm glad my CFI didn't do that to me, since I soloed in the
late fall, in Wisconsin!

He also didn't tear my shirt off, but did have me "bring an old
T-shirt" in from home, for the purposes of writing the date and
circumstances of my solo flight.

That shirt hung in the FBO until I got my ticket, and has since been
hanging proudly on my rec-room wall (right next to Mary's) for years
now...

> P.S. Flying solo is so much more fun than with an instructor aint it?

That's a good sign that you were ready. Shoot, I was kinda missing my
CFI, at first. It took a few more solo flights for me to appreciate
his absence...

Good job -- welcome to the club!
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Iowa City, IA
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[Peter Duniho]

"Cossack" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Hey everybody, im new to this group but I just had to tell people that
> I did my first solo flight today! Bring on the congrats :)

Congratulations. :)

Though, I think if you have to ask for it, the gift is somewhat diminished.
:p

> [...]
> P.S. Flying solo is so much more fun than with an instructor aint it?
> Nobody to look over your shoulder analysing your every move :P

You obviously pine for someone to second-guess you...after all, you've
posted your experience here. :)

Pete

[Jeff Shirton]

"Jose" > wrote in message
t...

>> ...and told me to do a circuit on my own.
>
> Just one? Traditionally it had been three.

I'm guessing, both from the one circuit and the bucket of water
(I got mine on a cold January day, thankfully it was warm water)
that the poster is from Canada. I might even guess Quebec,
from his email address...

Congrats, Jean-Marc!

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[Danny Dot]

"Cossack" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Hey everybody, im new to this group but I just had to tell people that
> I did my first solo flight today! Bring on the congrats :) Without
> warning, my instructor told me to pull up the the terminal, and got out
> of the plane and told me to do a circuit on my own. It went great....I
> didn't flare quite enough on the landing, but it was still one of my
> better ones. When I got back my insturctor dumped a bucket of water on
> me and I suppose it was some sort of tradition in my flight school.
>
> P.S. Flying solo is so much more fun than with an instructor aint it?
> Nobody to look over your shoulder analysing your every move :P
>

Did they cut your shirt tail off????

Danny Dot
www.mobbinggonemad.org



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>

[Cossack]

Yes, I am from Canada, and luckily it was a warm day, and I find its
always too hot in the cabin even with the vents open (not to mention I
was sweating form being nervous :P), so it was a nice refresher to get
the water. Im not from Quebec though, im in Ontario and im bilingual.
The guys at my school told me that at the Toronto Island airport, the
school used to dump you in the lake after your first solo....I would
hope to have a warm day there :O

P.S. Cut my shirt tail off?....i dont think so... and yes I suppose the
rate of climb was a bit higher without the added weight of the
instructor. Although my instructor is pretty thin, and I fly a Cessna
172 so its quite heavy anyways so I didn't notice much of a difference.

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Cossack94u515710



B A R R Y wrote:
> On 26 Nov 2006 07:22:31 -0800, "Cossack"
> > wrote:
>
> >P.S. Flying solo is so much more fun than with an instructor aint it?
>
> Did you notice a very different climb rate? <G>
>
> Congratulations!

[Judah]

Congratulations! Welcome to the group!

[BT]

congrats, have you checked out
recreation.aviation.students ?

welcome to the skies Jr Birdman
BT

"Cossack" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Hey everybody, im new to this group but I just had to tell people that
> I did my first solo flight today! Bring on the congrats :) Without
> warning, my instructor told me to pull up the the terminal, and got out
> of the plane and told me to do a circuit on my own. It went great....I
> didn't flare quite enough on the landing, but it was still one of my
> better ones. When I got back my insturctor dumped a bucket of water on
> me and I suppose it was some sort of tradition in my flight school.
>
> P.S. Flying solo is so much more fun than with an instructor aint it?
> Nobody to look over your shoulder analysing your every move :P
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Games I like to play:
>
> a href=http://www.gamestotal.com/>Multiplayer Online Games</a> <a
> href=http://www.gamestotal.com/>Strategy Games</a><br><a
> href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/>Unification Wars</a> - <a
> href=http://uc.gamestotal.com/>Massive Multiplayer Online
> Games</a><br><a href=http://gc.gamestotal.com/>Galactic Conquest</a> -
> <a href=http://gc.gamestotal.com/>Strategy Games</a><br><a
> href=http://www.stephenyong.com/runescape.htm>Runescape</a><br><a
> href=http://www.stephenyong.com/kingsofchaos.htm>Kings of chaos</a><br>
>
>
> Cossack93u515710
>

[James]

Cossack wrote:
> Yes, I am from Canada, and luckily it was a warm day, and I find its
> always too hot in the cabin even with the vents open (not to mention I
> was sweating form being nervous :P), so it was a nice refresher to get
> the water. Im not from Quebec though, im in Ontario and im bilingual.
> The guys at my school told me that at the Toronto Island airport, the
> school used to dump you in the lake after your first solo....I would
> hope to have a warm day there :O
>
> P.S. Cut my shirt tail off?....i dont think so... and yes I suppose the
> rate of climb was a bit higher without the added weight of the
> instructor. Although my instructor is pretty thin, and I fly a Cessna
> 172 so its quite heavy anyways so I didn't notice much of a difference.
>
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Congratulations. I soloed in a Cessna 150. My 230 lbs instructor told me
that I would get to find out how much better the plane flies without
230lbs of lard in it. He then signed my student pilot certificate for
solo and off I went. The cessna 150 definitely climed better, I kept
finding myself turing downwind, 100 feet above pattern altitude. On a
hot day with him and myself in it you would battle to reach pattern
altitude by the time you turned downwind.

[Greg Farris]

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>Congratulations. I soloed in a Cessna 150. My 230 lbs instructor told me
>that I would get to find out how much better the plane flies without
>230lbs of lard in it. He then signed my student pilot certificate for
>solo and off I went. The cessna 150 definitely climed better, I kept
>finding myself turing downwind, 100 feet above pattern altitude. On a
>hot day with him and myself in it you would battle to reach pattern
>altitude by the time you turned downwind.
>


When Cessna introduced the new 172 and 182 models, many had hoped for a 152 as
well. Cessna's reply was that it would cost them about as much to make a 152 as
a 172, so the justification was lost. I'll bet they were also concerned about
liability, because with what people weigh these days the 152 is not really a
two-person airplane any more.

I also did my first solo in a 152, and much early training in 150's and 152's
with an overweight instructor. We were always overweight, which no one seemed
to worry about that much. I'll bet it's taken more seriously these days. If
anything it's a poor example for a student learning to fly.

GF