Congratulations, Timmy!!
All the best and many more circuits like it!
CFrost wrote:Congratulations timmy! its the best feeling ever. You will soon do your solo land away which put an even bigger smile on my face!. Well done again. Chris P.S will be your turn soon chris ;p
Not for some time, Chris!
I still make some errors that I need to sort out - and although my progress continues getting through each lesson, I fear it will hold me up from moving onto circuits and going solo anytime soon.
Main ones are struggling to commit the Air Law and R/T text books to memory at the moment!
Hi Timmy, congratulations on your first Solo. you are sailing through your ppl. I have still away to go before I go for my first solo, but I can imagine, that it must be the most nerve wracking, but at the same time be one of the most exciting thing you have done. you should be proud of yourself. I had a lesson yesterday but wasn't able to fly due to a bad tummy, my instructor wouldn't let me go up. So will be going up next sunday if the weather is ok. It has been a bit grim lately. once again, well done.
Steve
TimmyP
Big congratulations to you, keep it up, before you know it you'll have a license in hand!
Morbz
Had another lesson today. I was to be solo consolidation, but when I turned up at noon the weather was bad, with quite a lot of rain and very low cloud. Luckily 'my' aeroplane and instructor were available for the remainder of the afternoon, so I went to get some lunch and was going to call back after a couple of hours to see if things had improved. After we'd found some lunch I walked outside and the rain had stopped, and the sun was even starting to poke through...what a result!
So we went back to the airfield and did a short briefing and I went out to preflight the aircraft. There were still a couple of showers in the locality but the weather was improving all the time so we decided to go for a few circuits to scope it out. After 2 circuits we stopped and the instructor hopped out to give me some more solo time. The weather was now pretty good with big chunks of blue and the few remaining showers breaking up, so my instructor said to do a few circuits, but to stop if the weather got worse again.
I ended up doing 5 solo circuits as well as the 2 with the instructor on board. It was by far the most enjoyable I've had so far. The first solo circuit was once again a little bit nervous and tentative, but after the first touch and go I felt like I had really settled in, and enjoyed the ride for the rest. It was great and I can't wait to go back next time. We've still got to do cross-wind landings, which we'll do when the weather fits (we haven't had the required crosswind yet), but next lesson could also be on practice forced landings and steep turns, depending on the weather. Apparently it won't be that long before I'll be doing local solo flights...I can't wait!!!
Anybody else fly this weekend?
Timmy well done, fantastic.Hope you opened the champagne.
Just getting into the touch and go's but not yet solo as putting off the air law exam until I feel really comfortable in the T&G's. Not so much the take-off and landings but the visual headings as well as the DI ones for all the r/ways. ie turn over midway GCHQ/treatment works/ May Hill, field with 3 trees (they had better not cut one down, lol).
Going up twice this week, tomorrow and Thursday. Brilliant sunshine today so it had better stay good.
My boyfriend flew Friday and the weather was dire................ended up having to ask for radar assistance from both Bristol and Glos. Couldn't even see the r/way at Glos never mid the airfield! Glos very kindly told him to watch out for very heavy squalls in the area..his reply "thanks I'm in one". Said the waterfall off the ailerons was incredible.
Must meet up at the Aviator someday
Jude
Congrats on all the soloing Timmy! you'll soon be there i'm sure. How are you getting on with the ground school?
I've been here there and everywhere this weekend. I took my girlfriend flying on Saturday seen as it was such a nice morning, I took her over her house and around the local area. Then went flying with a friend Sunday morning, nav ex cut short by deteriorating weather but still got a decent flight in. Then was heading to Skeg today with another friend in their 172, got as far as Waddington but again weather was pants so turned back. Then headed up to Sturgate and Sherburn this afternoon in an Arrow and didn't land back at Gamston until about 17:30! So i've had a busy weekend :D Back to the day job tomorrow unfortunately...
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