Last evening I achieved my solo flight status!!! I have been working with many members of my club out on the flight line to learn the proper way to fly. Let me tell you, it pays of to learn how to fly the right way (with instructors). For me at least I felt that I progressed much quicker than if I were to teach my self. I have had many people in my club fly with me, which I thought was great. Why you ask, well I was able to gain the knowlage from lots of different people. I would pick up things from one that another may have forgotten. Anyway lets talk about the flight. I taxied the plane out to the flight line and told the instuctor I have been working on my take off's and I would like to take off.(NO BUDDY CHORD ON THIS FLIGHT)(I did use it in earlier flights) I proceeded to throttle up and off she went. the flight consisted of me working on low approches at idle and then powering out and going around (a loop and a roll here and there). My instructor standing beside me said "if you were 100 ft further out when you came in you could have landed the plane." So I went around, went further out started to make the turn towards the runway, cut the throttle and started to glide in. one minor coarse adjustment was made and a little up elv. and OOOOOOOOOOO WAS THAT LANDING GREASEY!!!!! I could not tell if I had landed or I was still in the air. Anyway Thanks to every one on this sight that gives great advise. It has really help me learn to fly. I would like to offer a word of advise to any newbie who reads this thread. Don't give up, FLY,FLY,FLY alot with an instructor. There may be some frustrating times involved with learning to fly but work through them, the pay off is unbelivable.

I always laugh when poeple on here talk about that funny grin that you can't seem to get off of your face. Funny thing, I have it!! It is a contagouse thing.

Thanks again everyone

p.s. I tried to upload pics of my plane and I kept getting error pages FYI

Congrats!!!!

Enjoy the fun!

I still remember my solo... it was almost dark, raining, just yucky..

but man was it a beautiful day!

congrads,im still smiling myselve and still try to learn even more,,gooo burn some fuel

Good for you Red, That's great!![sm=thumbup.gif]

farminred,
Huge pat on the back. Soloing is just about THE best feeling when you are flying!!!!

A solo flight is a great accomplishment and that wins you one genuine RCU ATTABOY (Suitable for framing, wrapping fish, or lining trashcans).

Ken

Thanks Ken, I was unable to open your attachment as well as post pics. Is there somthing wrong with the web site or on my end??

I'm trying to figure it out now

Ken

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I don't know why the attachment won't show up correctly. I'm going to have to turn it over to RCAdmin and see if he can figure out what's going on.

Ken

Yup, it's on the site Red not your end. I can't open it either & I can allways see & open any of Ken's attachments.

RCAdmin just emailed me back and said they are having a problem with some of their servers. They are working on it right now and he'll let me know when it's fixed. Sorry for the delay

Ken

Let's see if mine works...

Here is a pic of my completed kit built Lt-40

Apparently Mike has the magic touch.

Somthing still must be wrong because I cannot see anything from ken nor can I see the pics that were uploaded.

Gongratulations on your solo flight. Can't wait till I do mine.