Nice one Jizman keep going..
My first solo was 27th July 2006 from Cumbernauld in G-BUMP (PA 28-181). I had just been up for a regular circuit bash with my instructor and got down taxied back to the apron and out he came with the "fancy doing one yourself" line..
After an abundance of profanities, from myself - not the instructor, the door was closed and latched and head down to the checklist. I think I went through the checklist a couple of times before calling up the tower to say I was off to do the powerchecks.. stuttering all the way..
What a feeling rolling down the runway and lifting off - punching the air (where the instructor should have been!) and even more profanities prior to the downwind checks.. Settled down and concentrated for the landing which must have been ok as I survived and someone took the plane out after me!!
Pulled up outside the hangar and shutdown and my instructor came back down from the tower.. Picture taken on mobile phone of me looking relieved / exhausted / exhillarated and then I jumped down and kissed the tarmac!
I will never forget that day.. On the way home afterwards - G'nR's Paradise City blaring out of the car stereo - some coffin dodger almost ran me off the road - driving down the wrong side! Think the sky is safer!!
30 odd hours in now and looking forward to going solo moreso...