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Offline Maverick

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2010, 10:18:42 AM »
Congrats! That's a day you will always remember.
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #16 on: September 15, 2010, 12:53:49 PM »
congrats Tupac  :aok
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Offline gpwurzel

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #17 on: September 15, 2010, 01:01:21 PM »
Congrats and Happy Birthday fella - excellent way to spend it too.

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #18 on: September 15, 2010, 02:08:49 PM »
Grats Mr Pilot.
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #19 on: September 15, 2010, 02:12:37 PM »
Gratz, what an awesome present!

Should talk to your instructor about getting one of those tail-mounted external settups with a wide lense so he can watch your control surfaces during the flight.
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Offline Tupac

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #20 on: September 15, 2010, 03:58:12 PM »
Thanks so much guys for all the birthday wishes.
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #21 on: September 15, 2010, 04:48:15 PM »
Nice job young fella.  :old:

Seriously WTG it's great to see a young guy like yourself motivated towards real world aviation.

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #22 on: September 15, 2010, 05:34:45 PM »
Quote from: Shifty on September 15, 2010, 04:48:15 PM
Nice job young fella.  :old:

Seriously WTG it's great to see a young guy like yourself motivated towards real world aviation.

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Im hoping to take my IR and my PPL checkride in the same week, and want to get my CFI by the time im 20.
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #23 on: September 15, 2010, 06:51:23 PM »
WAY TO GO MAN! that's freaking awesome! :aok
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #24 on: September 15, 2010, 10:11:42 PM »
WTG  Freaking awesome
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Offline BoilerDown

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #25 on: September 16, 2010, 12:37:42 AM »
And to think on my 16th my parents gave me a hot wheels car because they sure as hell weren't giving me a real one.
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #26 on: September 16, 2010, 12:37:50 AM »
Congrats  :aok


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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #27 on: September 16, 2010, 11:31:48 AM »
Quote from: BoilerDown on September 16, 2010, 12:37:42 AM
And to think on my 16th my parents gave me a hot wheels car because they sure as hell weren't giving me a real one.

 :furious :furious my parents did that crap to me as well.....
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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2010, 08:13:54 PM »
Heres the first and second landing videos like I promised, I'm not going to upload the one from the cockpit camera until I send it to America's Funniest Home Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPcnsIwXhDI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn9Jvd1T-I
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Offline FireDrgn

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Re: Soloed on my 16th birthday
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2010, 09:40:54 PM »
I'm jealous to be perfectly honest..... Just saw a video of a girl that did a heli solo at 14. :furious
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