Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Warspawn on June 19, 2006, 08:18:38 PM
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I Solo'd! Very very happy day for me, and one I hope others get to experience. Flying truly is the most fun you can have with your clothes on!!
I can't encourage you enough to give it a shot if you've ever thought about it!
Here's me right after the flight in the Diamond DA-20 that I did my first solo flights in (3 of them this afternoon!):
(http://everquest2.247xtreme.com/albums/userpics/10028/AfterSoloSmall.JPG)
And for my country-mates and squaddies who get to hear him talk over voice with me, my copilot, Tristan!! He's my lil' boy; a 1-yr old African Grey we've had in the family about 8 months now...
(http://everquest2.247xtreme.com/albums/userpics/10028/MyCopilotSmall.JPG)
He loves flying...gets all kinds of excited when there's stuff going on. Everyone's always asking "What the HECK was THAT!?" when I get shot and he screams "OH MY GAAAWWWD!!" . Too much fun!
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Excellent, keep it up, the hard part is now coming up. Don't be like many students that just "want to fly", and give up on the second part of their private pilot licence (Navigation, regulation, airplane systems).
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Actually, I plan on going all the way thru to my CFI!
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Great! CFI is a good way to make you a safer pilot. I don't want to seem to bring you down, but you are not planing a career change are you?
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Nope....
I'm a disabled vet, and the Government wanted me to chose a new vocation after I was discharged; they're payin' for it. Vocational Rehabilation and Education program. I'm retired; figure I'll do it for fun since it'll keep me active and involved in the aviation community that I'm really comming to enjoy. Everything else that I've trained to do involves alot of running and shooting, and after catching an RPG my back and legs aren't what they used to be ;) .
I've also joined the Civil Air Patrol here in the Pacific Northwest, and will be doing SAR and fire patrols.
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Congrats on your solo! My first solo was in a DA-20 as well, great bird to fly.
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Congrats Warspawn!
Now....Fly Safe! (and have fun too!)
cheers,
RTR
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you have skinny, white legs...like me :)
WTFG!
Nice bird too!
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it seems your legs are good enough to apply the amount of right rudder you CFI has been yelling about :furious :furious
WTG, where do do your X/C solos to if based in Bend?
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I'm not sure where we'll be doing our X-C's at; I believe the last one was up to The Dalles, where Google's building that huge internet complex at. It's up by the Columbia River Gorge, on the Washington border...
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Sounds good to me, I hope you will enjoy it. Any questions/concerns/tips regarding your training feel free to PM me, I'll be glad to help.
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Dante Hicks flies airplanes?
WTFG!
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Your computer room is way too neat. Where did you get that hairy thing you're standing on? Can you put it back?
Congrats on the solo. Feels great doesn't it. That will be a day that will stay with you forever. :aok
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Congrats! For your long distance XC, you should hit some place interesting, like McMinville. Drop by Creswell also to make the triangle complete. :D
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Thats a beautiful African Grey. Used to have one but let him go to a family that had the time I didnt have to give. Great birds! really wonderful....messy too!
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Catching an RPG???
Jesus, dude..... Here's to a life devoid of anything else remotely reminiscent of that!!
Wish you the best in your flying.
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War, I have your bottle waiting for you here. We need to shower some of the white off those legs. :lol Besides, Tristan may like the Sangria.
As I've said before, good luck and keep it up. (Going up is harder than coming down, more fun too.)
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Congratulations, keep it up!
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Congrats!!!
... that being said, that plane don't look like it has a door you can jump from when in flight... I don't see the attraction :o
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anyone notice the "Toolsheds" marked on the map (see desktop)
WTG BTW
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Good eyes!
It's a Fuel Factory complex, where I was practicing some dive-bombing at the time! (Making some custom gunsites to help place my ordinance on target at different dive angles.)