First Solo!!

[Joshrk22]

Had my first solo today; 7/16/07.

I feel like I'm on top of the world!! Can't even explain it!

Anyways.... I went up with my instructor first and we did some pattern work. After about 5 landings that I did really well on he said "Are you ready?" So he hopped out at the hangar and I took her up. I did four landings that were full-stop taxi-backs.

I'm flying a 182 and it climbs like a beast as it is. Well when my instructor hopped out of the plane , the thing climbed even faster. I was kinda' expecting that though.

All in all, it was an uneventful flight (if you want to call it that). I have a flight tomorrow morning and one Friday, so I'm really looking forward to those!

Alright, I just had to post that. I've been longing for the day when I could start a thread like this!

:beer:

 

[Waldom]

Congratulations, Joshrk22. You have accomplished something a very small percentage of the population has the opportunity or the inclination to do.

Remember to always remain a "student pilot". By that I mean a student of the art of flying whether you have twenty or twenty thousand hours of flying experience.

Good Job!

 

[Joshrk22]

Thanks Waldom!

 

[probablecause]

Hey good job! That is a great feeling that will always be hard to top!

 

[Bill Mostellar]

Congratulations.

My solo was almost 20 years ago, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

I wish you success!
William

 

[Joshrk22]

Thanks guys!

 

[bluefishbeagle]

Had my first solo today; 7/16/07.

I feel like I'm on top of the world!! Can't even explain it!

Anyways.... I went up with my instructor first and we did some pattern work. After about 5 landings that I did really well on he said "Are you ready?" So he hopped out at the hangar and I took her up. I did four landings that were full-stop taxi-backs.

I'm flying a 182 and it climbs like a beast as it is. Well when my instructor hopped out of the plane , the thing climbed even faster. I was kinda' expecting that though.

All in all, it was an uneventful flight (if you want to call it that). I have a flight tomorrow morning and one Friday, so I'm really looking forward to those!

Alright, I just had to post that. I've been longing for the day when I could start a thread like this!

:beer:

18 months and $100,000.00 you can be in the right seat of an RJ making $18,00 per year.

 

[Buckeye]

I remembered the day I soloed I was getting my senior pictures taken with the aircraft. Any way to make a short story long, that PA28 instrument panel went from a simple warrior to a complex 747 panel. Then I realized I was by myself, well it all worked out.

 

[UALX727]

Congrats!!!!!!!!

 

[epic!]

Congrats! I would have been terrified to do my first solo in a 182. Now comes the fun stuff. Cross countries, radio work, more solo's.

 

[SEVEN]

Way to go.

 

[Joshrk22]

Epic,

I actually did a cross country yesterday; 2.4 hours. I'm at 28.4 hours right now and my instructor thinks if everything keeps going the way it is, I will be done around 45 hours. I have about 2 hours of night, 8 hours of cross country time, and a little hood time.

He's leaving in a few days so he wants me to be able to get to the practice area or other airports and back to our home field when he's gone. So I can get all my solo stuff done while he's gone, and then when he comes back we go through the PTS and make sure everything has been completed.

I'm hoping to finish up my private before school starts. Only kid in the school with a PPL!

 

[pgcfii2002]

Good job!!!

It will be a day you never forget..........

 

[CKJET]

Congrats...welcome to the club...

I had the oppertunity to fly a C-152 the other day, made me think back to times like you just mentioned.

 

[flyer172r]

Congratulations man. There is never another feeling like it.

 

[oops!]

I honestly wish I was you right now... that was the funnest time of my career so far... congrats/ have fun

 

[EdAtTheAirport]

Congrats Josh... and thanks for starting a fun thread.

 

[Joshrk22]

Well thank you!

 

[rfresh]

Welcome to the 'club' !!