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flying snapper
26th Aug 2002, 08:23
Well, I've bored my wife rigid with this one and I just have to tell everyone else who will spare me the time to listen.
I did my first solo on Saturday!! Two circuits at Prestwick in a Grumman aa5, and it feels wonderful!
Thanks to BEagle et all for their sterling work on the NPPL. It feels a bit like the first time you have "you know what", I haven't stopped grinning yet!!:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
AerBabe
26th Aug 2002, 09:28
Simple... NEVER!!! Well done Snapper :)
The permanent grin, for me, lasted around 3 weeks, but I still get that huge buzz when I think back to it.
GFT will come fairly close, but nothing beats it. Although I flew aerobatics for the first time last week, and I am still grinning about that... I'll come back to you! ;)
In the meantime, if Mrs Snapper is getting bored, phone up all your friends and relatives, and tell them instead! :cool:
snapper,
congratulations!!! It took several threats from family and friends to get me to stop grinning well over a month later :D
welcome to the club :D :D
HelenD
26th Aug 2002, 14:50
Congratulations, it is a nice feeling once it has sunk in. Hope the rest of your training goes OK
White Shadow
26th Aug 2002, 15:32
It'll stay with you the rest of your life, whenever you look at a blue sky on a miserable business day....
WS
Saab Dastard
26th Aug 2002, 17:41
Snapper, well done! :)
In answer to the question about when you stop grinning - in my case it's at the end of each month when I get my credit card bill
:( :(
MikeSamuel
26th Aug 2002, 17:56
Brings it all flooding back..... :D :D :D :D :D
propjockey
26th Aug 2002, 17:59
Well Done Steve - yee ha!
keep smiling!
:D :) :cool:
you deserve it!
congrats from all the EGPK PPRUNEr's and I know there are a few!
I don't think you ever really stop grinning. Every time you hear an aircraft overhead - particularly your favourite type - you look up, and grin. Maybe wince a bit, too, cos it's not you up there.
But it will be, next time...
It's 20 years since I got my PPL, and I'm still grinning.
Grim Reaper 14
27th Aug 2002, 07:58
You don't, try as you might, and the more you concentrate on NOT grinning, well it's like trying to keep quiet at the back of a science lesson when you've already been told off once for laughing. Can't be done.
Well done!!
criticalmass
27th Aug 2002, 12:11
Every time I buy fuel for the aircraft.
Viggen
27th Aug 2002, 21:27
my grin lasts hours ... even after a "normal" flight (rather than a "first" like your own). My girlfriend can tell as soon as she walks into the house whether I've bunked off work and been flying....
maggioneato
28th Aug 2002, 07:20
Congratulations, always feel I have a coat hanger stuck in my mouth when I have been flying, just can't stop grinning, must look pretty stupid to other people, who cares.:D :D :D :D :D
Holloway
28th Aug 2002, 10:51
I cant wait to go solo!! the thing is when I do ill want to do it all the time :)
Cheshire cat EGHH
28th Aug 2002, 11:35
Wow, this post makes me feel like i am the only one who hasn't yet gone solo .
Dham the wx, and my bank for not letting me have that loan :( :( :(
Congrats Flying snapper.