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mcartier713 04-21-2007 06:43 PM
Originally Posted by TonyC (Post 153509)
Congratulations, McArtier!!!
close tony, close. :p its m for 'matt' and Cartier, cest francais.

mike734 04-22-2007 02:23 PM
Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 153534)
it was in my beech sundowner (my avatar)... what do you mean how did he break it to me? how did he tell me i was gonna solo? we were just flyin the pattern and he was like, "ready for me to get out?" and i said it was up to him, he was the instructor. so we landed, he got out and I did 4 touch and goes. then we flew to a diff airport and i did 4 more.
Yeah, that's what I meant. BTW now you need to change the caption under your avatar from C-23 FO to PIC! If you think solo pattern was fun, just wait until you do your long cross country. I remember that as being a truly cool time.

threegreen 04-22-2007 02:49 PM
Congrads no one forgets their first solo. SNA in a 152 5 yrs ago for me

aerodarts 04-22-2007 03:04 PM
Class D Airspace
 
Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 152175)
ok ok so I wasn't going to make a post about my first solo, but I can't help it, I'm still smiling from ear to ear. TD, I remember you saying once that you sang "fly me to the moon," so when I went up and thats exactly what I did.. haha. I got about 1.1 solo time today, did 8 landings, all in class D airspace.
What did the class of airpace have with you flying the airplane to a safe landing? Did you do touch and goes? Were you scared?! Be careful out there!

:D ?

mcartier713 04-22-2007 04:15 PM
Originally Posted by mike734 (Post 153841)
Yeah, that's what I meant. BTW now you need to change the caption under your avatar from C-23 FO to PIC! If you think solo pattern was fun, just wait until you do your long cross country. I remember that as being a truly cool time.
haha yeah i was just thinking about changing it but i figured i'd wait till I actually got that little card that says "private pilot" on it :)

mcartier713 04-22-2007 04:17 PM
Originally Posted by aerodarts (Post 153858)
What did the class of airpace have with you flying the airplane to a safe landing? Did you do touch and goes? Were you scared?! Be careful out there!

:D ?
i donno, i was always under the impression that most people did their first solo at an uncontrolled airport. mine was in heavy friggin traffic... yeah they were touch and goes, all 6 of them, with 2 full stops. not scared, felt like i had been doing it forever.

iflyprops 04-22-2007 04:21 PM
Congrats! Ditto on the solo cross countries, its like a whole new world/freedom! The only time I got airsick was on my long solo cross country...but thats a different story and had to do with what I had eaten at my stop...

Congrats!

aerodarts 04-22-2007 04:27 PM
solo is PIC
 
Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 153887)
haha yeah i was just thinking about changing it but i figured i'd wait till I actually got that little card that says "private pilot" on it :)
I believe solo by a student piloit is considered to be PIC............

aerodarts 04-22-2007 04:33 PM
get scared.......
 
Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 153889)
i donno, i was always under the impression that most people did their first solo at an uncontrolled airport. mine was in heavy friggin traffic... yeah they were touch and goes, all 6 of them, with 2 full stops. not scared, felt like i had been doing it forever.
Solo flights are usually done at the airport where the training takes place. That makes sense does it not? If you were not scared, then you in the minority. Why? Never know what is going to happen when you walk out on the ramp........

How much flight time you have now?:rolleyes:

mcartier713 04-22-2007 10:29 PM
Originally Posted by aerodarts (Post 153899)
Solo flights are usually done at the airport where the training takes place. That makes sense does it not? If you were not scared, then you in the minority. Why? Never know what is going to happen when you walk out on the ramp........

How much flight time you have now?:rolleyes:
i dont know why i wasn't scared.. it was just like when i drove in my car alone for the first time.. sure there was a little bit of anxiety and excitement, but I wasn't really scared or nervous that much... as of today i have 27.6 TT w/ 1.1 PIC.


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