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Old 07-21-2003 | 06:14 PM
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Default How long did it take you to solo?

ytou shouldn't solo too fast. you are just trying to skip the unavoidable. the bad scenario. you need to learn to recover from them, and there is no better plane to do that on than a trainer. true, i could fly the plane around and do stuff in about 2 mins. i would have been fine soloing after 3 months. but i am glad i soloed after 6. by then, i was doing inverted passes over the runway ad 1/4 throttle. realflight did hel.p a lot, and i am glad i got that program. crashing is not a concern. however though, at my field, there is always dind, and because we are on top of a hill, there is always wind sucking us down or blowing us up as it crosses the runway.