First Solo flight today!!

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!

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.

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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