First solo...

[unreal]

I'm a basketcase! I'm soloing my first student tomorrow. The weather is forecast to be great, and there's usually light traffic around here on sunday afternoons. He's more than ready, but it's still a very nerveracking prospect. So far I've come up with a list of things I need:

Binoculars
Transceiver
Pack of cigarettes (I don't smoke :laugh

Okay, I guess it won't be that bad, but damn! I'm more nervous now than when I did my own first solo.

 

[joepilot29]

After the first one it's not as nerve racking. I would say it's like a right of passage. I think I have soloed about 30 people. Now I watch the first landing and then go lay on the couch inside and take a nap.

Don't talk to the student on the handheld. Let them sort it out. We have someone at my airport that coaches their students while they solo. It annoys me to no end. Good luck.

 

[unreal]

After the first one it's not as nerve racking. I would say it's like a right of passage. I think I have soloed about 30 people. Now I watch the first landing and then go lay on the couch inside and take a nap.

Don't talk to the student on the handheld. Let them sort it out. We have someone at my airport that coaches their students while they solo. It annoys me to no end. Good luck.

Thanks! Nice to hear it gets easier.

Actually, I shouldn't have said "transceiver." Just a scanner, really. We're a towered airport.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Have your student tell the tower controller he or she is on their first solo. Hopefully that will clue the controller into watching your student in the pattern and not sending them on a 10 mile downwind for traffic.

Always seemed to help when I instructed.

 

[epic!]

good luck man. that is one of the reasons i am thinking of bi-passing the CFI route, im kind of weary of handing my license off to a student on their first solo or cross country.

 

[unreal]

good luck man. that is one of the reasons i am thinking of bi-passing the CFI route, im kind of weary of handing my license off to a student on their first solo or cross country.

Well, don't get me wrong. I'm nervous, but I'm not dreading it one bit. In fact, I'm very excited. It's awesome seeing one of your students you built from scratch do well.

 

[woutlaw]

Well, that's two flightinfo.com basketcases today then. You are not alone.

I'm soloing my first student in a little bit as well.

I guess I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

 

[svcta]

bi-passing the CFI route

What? Is this a clever way of saying you're getting in to 2 on 1 po(r)n instead of flying?

And do things the old fashioned way.....the suspense of not knowing what(or how) the he!! your student is doing until he crashes or comes back is half the fun. But not all are a purist as I.

 

[unreal]

Ugggh...

Winds when we got into the plane: Variable at 4
Winds after run-up: 120 at 14 on runway 21L.

We're not authorized to conduct solos over 10 knots of wind or 5 knots of crosswind, so that's that. I can't solo him on runway 12 either. BAH. I'm an idiot for scheduling him at 1300. :angryfire

 

[Iceman07]

You think you're nervous now? Wait till you're first solo X-C sign off. On the first solo, everything is pretty much under control. The first solo X-C you just know that everything is going wrong...