Author Topic: I solo tomorrow... (Read 636 times)

Skydancer · « **Reply #15 on:** June 28, 2005, 07:38:25 PM »

Good luck

Cougar68 · « **Reply #16 on:** June 28, 2005, 08:09:18 PM »

It'll be a day you'll never forget! I still remember my first solo like it was yesterday. You'll freak out when your instructor gets out of the plane, just calm yourself down and stick to the checklists!

Maverick · « **Reply #17 on:** June 28, 2005, 09:28:11 PM »

As the axiom goes,:

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one. Any landing that lets you use he airplane again without repairs first......is a great landing.

Good luck

airbumba · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2005, 09:51:39 PM »

Good luck fellow flier, and we're all behind ya .

Hangtime · « **Reply #19 on:** June 29, 2005, 07:02:18 PM »

How'd yah make out??

C'mon!! Details, details!

Golfer · « **Reply #20 on:** June 29, 2005, 07:47:12 PM »

I had just rolled wheels up from Peoria after dropping off one of my company's customers and when passing over Indy I saw something I thought I'd never see.

There were plumes of smoke rising from the suburbs. Fires engulfed blocks of houses and there was panic and mass hysteria down below. I looked carefully from above at 8000 feet in the newly aquired Mooney M20J and saw a small aircraft making run after run on this one particular section of neighborhood.

I called center and told them I was moving in and to scramble the F-16's out of Springfield with hot air to air ordnance in support. I rolled the airplane and dove down for a high speed run to visually verify the attacker...and to my surprise I saw this guy flying a 172 with what appeared to be homemade tubeless rocket launchers fabricated out of chainlink fencing under the wings with large beerkeg rockets mounted. He had three left...

Moving in closer and drawing my .45 pistol while opening the vent in the pilots side window I took aim and saw this face staring back at me:

Dismayed...I couldn't bear to pull the trigger on my friend Glove. I called him up on Air to Air 122.75 and asked what he was doing. After hearing the words "Ex Wife" crackle in my headset I immediately broke off my attack, called center and requested they stand down the F-16's reporting my newly found intelligence. The center controller said "Roger" and called the leader of Zippo flight of two F-16's.

Instead of heading home, they joined me on my wings and we flew a low formation pass over the crowd in salute to this great man carrying out the dreams of men everywhere!

Glove and god bless you!

I haven't heard back, but I'm sure his solo takeoffs and landings went just as well as his mission!

Gloves · « **Reply #21 on:** June 29, 2005, 09:20:28 PM »

LOL Golfer,

I forgot about that picture.

One word sums up what happened today - thunderstorms!

Looks like the solo waits another day. I'm scheduled at 8:00 in the morning for my next attempt. Hopefully I won't be rained out for a third time.

Glove

Hangtime · « **Reply #22 on:** June 29, 2005, 09:39:05 PM »

egads.. man; don't gnaw off your fingers. try and get some sleep..

..and keep the dirty side down.

& g'luck!

Gloves · « **Reply #23 on:** June 30, 2005, 10:23:04 AM »

Still haven't been able to solo.

Today, visibility was below 3 miles. That's the 3rd time in a row I've been grounded.

This routine is really getting old.

Glove

Golfer · « **Reply #24 on:** June 30, 2005, 11:25:45 AM »

Cheer up love glove...wx tomorrow is supposed to be fine and dandy.

I'll be flying during the day and have a fireworks sightseeing trip that evening...cha ching!

You'll get it...my problem lately is that everybody wants to fly all the time when we had those weeks of heat and no rain

I'm about to bid farewell to my life as a very busy freelance and independent CFI as well...I have an interview on Tuesday and should be driving my learjet in less than a year! A few years of that and it's off to my cushy corporate job having to 'deal' with being type raded in Challenger 604's and Hawkers

This has been a good summer. Throw me an email and let me know when you're going I might could sneak out there and buy you a beer and help hack off your shirt tail.

Casca · « **Reply #25 on:** June 30, 2005, 11:48:05 AM »

Good luck Glove. Keep the greasy side down.

hitech · « **Reply #26 on:** June 30, 2005, 12:04:32 PM »

Gloves any chance you can switch that first CC to 52F?

HiTech

Gloves · « **Reply #27 on:** June 30, 2005, 02:50:30 PM »

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Originally posted by hitech
Gloves any chance you can switch that first CC to 52F?

HiTech

Hmmm, looks like a short enough hop. Is that where I can find a certain RV at?

Glove

Chairboy · « **Reply #28 on:** June 30, 2005, 04:21:31 PM »

Odd, the airport directory says they charge landing fees to planes from flight schools that aren't based on the field. Doesn't seem very neighborly....

Gloves · « **Reply #29 on:** July 01, 2005, 10:26:35 PM »

FINALLY!!! WOOOHOOOO!!! After cancelling my last 4 lessons due to thunderstorms, I was able to get on the schedule tonight (7/1/2005). It was questionable as the winds we around 13 knots - 6 is my limit.

Well, we flew around for an hour giving my neice and nephew their first ride in a small plane. When we got back to the airport, the winds had died down enough. My CFI and I went up and did a couple more landings, then the big moment. He got out and told me to go to it, but to be quick as night was coming quickly.

I taxied out, ran through my checklist, and took off. Seemed like the plane just leaped into the air - guess the extra weight really does make a difference. I just did a quick pattern and lined up for final. The landing went pretty well, but not perfect.

Guess that will come with experience. To be honest, I think I did better without the CFI there. I know I concentrated more on details (airspeed, carb heat, flaps) since he wasn't there to remind me of them.

Look out big blue yonder!!! The Glovester has arrived!