Well, being that I just soloed yesterday, I can shed some light on it. I, being someone who gets to the field if they are lucky once in two weeks, knew I was going to take a long time to solo. However, with the help of Real flight and a few really good instructors, I soloed with about a dozen flights under my belt. The day was calm, and wind was not too bad.

I did have a problem though, after everything was over in my solo flight, the instrcuctor wanted me to dead stick it in. Well, about 2 seconds after he cut the power my right aileron came off and fluttered to the ground, someone in the "peanut gallery" called it. My beautiful Sig Senior Kadet started to head toward the forest nose first. I yelled, "I GOT NO AILERONS!!!", but I was able to save it, I got the nose up, gave her some throttle and got her somewhat stablized. I then gave one of my qualifiers the sticks to bring it home. I probably should have brought it in with just the rudder, but I don't think I could have. I was really shaken up. Anyway, even though I did not dead stick, my qualifiers said my recvovery was beautiful and that I pass.

I still do not feel I am ready, it's a scary thing...At any moment a nice day could turn ugly.. But, it's all in the sport of the hobby..