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Post by: moose on October 17, 2002, 12:09:38 PM: This little bird went solo after 5.5 hours of duel instruction :)
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Post by: Ripsnort on October 17, 2002, 12:13:11 PM: Congrats Moose!
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Post by: ATC on October 17, 2002, 12:17:02 PM: WTG, 5.5 hours is good. :) It took me, I think, about 8 hours, back in 1973 at the age of 17.

Good work, and keep it up

ATC
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Post by: Ozark on October 17, 2002, 12:25:10 PM: WTG Moose! :D
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Post by: Seeker on October 17, 2002, 12:28:47 PM: Grats!
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Post by: Saintaw on October 17, 2002, 12:52:29 PM: :cool:
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Post by: Pei on October 17, 2002, 01:18:13 PM: Wow, a flying moose! :)

Congrats man!
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Post by: Flossy on October 17, 2002, 01:25:41 PM: Congrats Moose! :D
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Post by: Karnak on October 17, 2002, 01:55:33 PM: Good job, moose.
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Post by: AKDejaVu on October 17, 2002, 02:02:46 PM: Quote
duel instruction
Hehehe... when its in a cessna, its DUAL instruction. ;)

Congrats on your first solo. Yet another soul I should hate out of jealousy.

AKDejaVu
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Post by: Nifty on October 17, 2002, 02:05:59 PM: Deja, he's an AssAssIn. Ain't too much to be jealous of there, regardless if he's done his solo. ;)
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Post by: LePaul on October 17, 2002, 02:20:51 PM: 5.5? Not bad...took me longer...because at 13, money is harder to come by!

Thanks to Aces High? Oh I dunno....if your airport was being vulched.... LOL
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Post by: SirLoin on October 17, 2002, 02:21:11 PM: God..I gave up after 20 hours..Too much $$$.

WTG Mooose!!!
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Post by: Biggles on October 17, 2002, 02:32:59 PM: Congrats! 5.5 hours is quick!

I soloed at 10 hrs, back in June of '79, well before I'd ever flown a flight sim! :)
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Post by: tkor on October 17, 2002, 02:39:36 PM: Congrats, Moose! Greatest feeling in the world besides... oh, you know! LOL
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Post by: Skuzzy on October 17, 2002, 02:53:54 PM: Congratulations moose!
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Post by: Fatty on October 17, 2002, 02:56:13 PM: Did you ever land at the right airport?
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Post by: hitech on October 17, 2002, 02:57:25 PM: Congrats moose!!!

With luck my check ride is tommorow.

HiTech
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Post by: Flossy on October 17, 2002, 04:18:26 PM: Zeb did his first solo in 1988 after 11.5 hours.... :D Took another 6 months after that to get his full license. HiTech, I hope your checkride is less eventful than Zeb's was! His radio failed just short of the second away landing and in the confusion he did his downwind leg on the wrong side of the circuit! Still passed though. These pictures were taken a couple of weeks later:

(http://www.zeb.clara.net/images/plane2.JPG)
This is a picture of me and a rather young Cloud (Deryk) inspecting 'Echo Foxtrot' before another flight at Blackpool

(http://www.zeb.clara.net/images/plane1.JPG)
Cloud *will* get in that Cherokee !!
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Post by: hitech on October 17, 2002, 05:02:41 PM: Btw moose, did you find AH tought you to fly,built in stall reactions and such, but landings are way different do to wind gusts?
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Post by: Mitsu on October 17, 2002, 05:25:48 PM: Mooose, congratulations! :cool:
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Post by: Bonden on October 17, 2002, 05:55:06 PM: WTG Moose - did they cut your shirt tail off for ya? C'mon over to MVY some day, I'll buy lunch :)

Bonden
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Post by: Vulcan on October 17, 2002, 06:02:03 PM: There were some issues, possibly AH influenced:

- couldn't find the re-arm pad
- confused the tower when he asked if the ack was down @ the field
- views not mapped to the stick hat caused some initial problems
- 3-keypress engine hack didn't work
- why can't I take my beer and pizza with me?
- instructor wasn't sure how many perkies a cessna is worth
- had to apologise after calling Check 6 on a passing 737
- accused a nearby Piper of warping

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Originally posted by hitech
Btw moose, did you find AH tought you to fly,built in stall reactions and such, but landings are way different do to wind gusts?
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Post by: palef on October 17, 2002, 06:05:42 PM: Geez Vulcan, that was actually funny!!! See you can be funny if you try! :D

palef
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Post by: Gman on October 17, 2002, 06:52:46 PM: HT, I found that exact thing to be precisely true. I'm at a whopping 4 hours myself, and much to Toad and Fester's amusement when I told them, the thing that freaked me out WAS the wind gusts, especially on take-off/landing. Learning in a mountain airport at 4000 feet probably doesn't help this, but ya, I found that controlling the aircraft, responding to stalls and the little shoves off course you get from wind etc in level flight was inherently easier due to AH, but landing in the wind I had no "microsoft" skills, as my instructor put it.

Of course, I told him MS sucks and he should fly Aces High.
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Post by: Animal on October 17, 2002, 07:28:56 PM: how much are the hours costing you in that cessna?

my solo time goes for about $70 in a 152 and $90 in a 172
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Post by: moose on October 17, 2002, 07:41:21 PM: Quote
Originally posted by hitech
Btw moose, did you find AH tought you to fly,built in stall reactions and such, but landings are way different do to wind gusts?

Exactly put ht, although I got the landing flare right the 1st time during a 30kt gusting wind a few weeks ago. It's a lot easier with a headwind slowing you down, and today was actually a lot harder because a northeaster just blew through so we had clear skies, 60 degrees, and no wind at all. Plane just didn't want to get on the ground at all.

Stalls, slips, and coordinated turns are just like in the game. After my 2nd lesson, my instructor asked me repeatedly if I had flown a plane before :)

Deja, if the FAA had a spelling test along with the huge presolo packet I had to do, i think both ht and I would be s.o.l.

Animal, it's $70/hr for a 172, + $30/hr for instructor (Mine's excellent, he graduated Daniel Webster last spring and is a couple of years older then I am so we get along real well) They have a Piper Arrow for $95 an hour which I plan on taking up. That has the variable-pitch prop with manifold pressure and stuff and I'm really looking forward to that.

Of course lessons are running me very dry on money :) I don't drive much anymore because flying feels a lot more natural for some reason. I wish I had the cash to get my commercial but I don't think i'll be able to keep the pace i'm at for 250 hours
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Post by: Blue Mako on October 17, 2002, 08:50:03 PM: Flew my first solo circuit after 3.6 hours in a C152 :)
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Post by: SKurj on October 17, 2002, 10:41:45 PM: Hmm in a cessna i would call it duel instruction.... not alotta room in them things +)

SKurj

wtg moose!! 5.5 hours... geez at that rate mebbe I could afford it... well when i graduate and get a real job...
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Post by: Sancho on October 17, 2002, 11:20:34 PM: congrats moose. hope to do that myself someday. :)
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Post by: Manedew on October 18, 2002, 12:55:47 AM: Anyone know some good web sites to beef up on the FAA test?
or book? (don't want to waste money on long ground school if I can avoid it. Like moose says it'll hurt your wallet.)

Oh ya and ¡congrats!
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Post by: mjolnir on October 18, 2002, 02:24:56 AM: I think I did my first solo at 9.4 hours, IIRC. Only had about a year, maybe less of AH under my belt then, but it helped. Well, everything except the sudden 40 kt crosswinds that would pop up when flying right on the frontrange of the Rockies at a 6500 ft airfield...
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Post by: Z6 on October 18, 2002, 02:59:12 AM: WTFG Moose I remember U from my 1st. night flying AH.
>>>S<<<
GOODHUNTING!
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Post by: LePaul on October 18, 2002, 10:13:04 AM: Prices...

Up here in Bangor, Maine...

Cessna 152 $40 an hour (Hobbs Meter)

Cessna 172 Skyhawk (War Hawk :D ) $79 an hour (Hobbs Meter)

At those prices, I'll tow her to the end of the runway, then fire her up!

Instructor, add $25 an hour
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Post by: SKurj on October 18, 2002, 08:33:53 PM: I took one lesson geez.. errrm at least 10 years ago now, in a small town about 3 hrs NW of Toronto. Cost me $120 an hr CDN then...
Have no clue what the rate is these days

SKurj
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Post by: hitech on October 19, 2002, 06:02:22 AM: Manedew Found this one to work best for me.

http://www.sportys-catalogs.com/faatest/mainpage.cfm
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Post by: Manedew on October 19, 2002, 09:25:29 AM: Hey TNX HT you ROCK! :)