Well it was a beautiful morning here, and I had some overtime saved up so I skipped out and headed to the field.

I swung by Monday evenoing and ran into the club president and another gent, Dennis. Dennis took my Nexstar up for me, trimmed it out and handed me the Tx. No buddy cord or anything, we didn't have one. After a few bouncy flights we took the flaps off and things smoothed out quite a bit.

As luck would have it, Dennis showed up at the field shortly after me. I was doing circuits, take-off, land, rinse, repeat. I couldn't seem to flair properly before touchdown so Dennis had a go at it, without much more success, it wanted to stay nose-down. I decided to take off the anti-stall droops. Dennis took it back up and retrimmed it, and it was a huge improvement. I took a break for a while as he flew his big Sig Cub around for a bit, what a nice flying plane! After an hour and a half or so, Dennis headed out and I stayed to fly some more. Nothing fancy, all the same thing, take-off, fly around, land. It all went pretty well except for one bad approach when the wind was higher than normal, and I stalled it about 5 feet up, lost the spinner and prop. Checked it out, new prop on, and went back up.

What a great 4 hours! Best skipout I've ever had. I feel pretty confident going out to the field alone now, should make for more flying time, as with a small club and only being able to go out weekday evenings, I don't meet up with any members very often.

So I guess you could call this an official solo, as I soft of had an instructor this time at least. I haven't done the wings test yet for MAAC, but I pretty much do every thing on it each time I fly except the figure 8's, which I can do, I was just working on the mandatory bit... the landing.

Congratulations

ghtracey,
Way to go!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ain't it a great feeling??? Yes, that smile will eventually go away. It took about 3 weeks for mine to disappear. Oh yeah, one other thing, there is nothing wrong with standing out in your garage just staring at your plane and dreaming of flying it!!!

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

Ken

Awesome man! Great feeling to be able to go and fly when you want vs just training nights.

I look in on my planes too from time to time if I have not flown recently... y'know - just to check on 'em.

somegeek

Thanks!

Hmmmmm how did you know I did that?

Having someone stand beside you for an hour or so helps a lot... great confidence builder.

Now, its time to start looking for more fuel, burnt near a gallon so far.

That's all??? Wait till you start doing that in a day!! [X(]

Ken

If you only knew the trouble I had getting two gallons of fuel......

Glad I found someone locally who sells it, company that has a lot of staff that runs cars, they get it in bulk. At least now I don't have to pay purolator dangerous goods shipping costs. [:'(]

Graham