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Went to the airport for a normal flight lesson, did a some of take offs and landings, and after 6 of them, my Instructor asked me to come to a complete stop on the runway. Once I had come to a stop, she looked at me and asked. "Ready to go up alone?". I was totally shocked. I was a little hesitant, but I taxied back to the runway, let her out, and flew around the pattern a couple times! My first Solo flight!

Once I was down and after I had secured the aircraft she came out and took a few pictures. When we got in the terminal she took out her scissors and cut my shirt up.

I can't wait untill my next solo flight

Congrats...

But I see no photo of a cut up shirt.

Until that is seen, we at Simviation cannot properly certify your solo flight.

I'll take a photo of my shirt, and i'll see if I can get a copy of the pictures from today

Congrats!!!!
Must have been a awesome feeling?
Can't wait for mine!!

Congrats Andrew! For your future career are you going to be a pilot?

*Your instructor is a woman?  ;)

A VERY BIG Congrats Andrew!!!!!!!!  ;D

Dave  ;D

Congrats Andrew! For your future career are you going to be a pilot?

I'm not sure yet. After my PPL, we'll see

[quote]*Your instructor is a woman?

congratulations Andrew
And thats a lesson to prospective pilots out there, be prepared for your solo, because once it comes time for it, you dont want to be wearing your most expensive shirt

And thats a lesson to prospective pilots out there, be prepared for your solo, because once it comes time for it, you dont want to be wearing your most expensive shirt

I wish I had thought about that beforehand. The thing is that when I flew last Wednseday, my performance sucked, my manaeuvers sucked, and my landings sucked. I was either coming in too high, too fast, over shooting when turning onto final, or coming in and screwing my landings up. I was sure that it would have been a couple more weeks of instruction before my instructor would have even dreamed of leaving me alone in the cockpit

When I soloed today I was ironically wearing a t-shirt with the local FBO/flightschool logo on it. Now I gotta buy a new one

Nice one Andrew
Believe me sacrificing a T-Shirt is a small price to pay for how you're feeling right now

Mark

congrats andrew, well done mate!

lol...Congratulations mate! No doubt there are many of us here who are jealous of you! ;-)

What, ?....You missed out on the bucket of water...?....

I guess times are really changing..........

Good one, Andrew.  Its the first real big step forward, to where you want to go......Congratulations ! ! ! !

congrats mate  ;D

Congrats and well done.
Flying for real - solo, hmmm. Cool.
How long did it take u Andrew? To get to that stage, is it a few years or a year or what?

Ben