Advice for a student pilot
 

Would like to get some advice on flying solo/decision making :)

Plain and simple from Chris Hadfield:

"There is no situation [on board an aircraft] which you cannot make worse."

Decision making is all about getting as much information as you possibly can, looking at your options and picking the one that is least likely to cause damage to the airplane or the people in it. You'll be taught a whole bunch of different decision making models (our company uses SADIE) through your career, but at the end of the day you'll find they all do the same thing: gather information, analyse the information, pick the best option, repeat.

Going solo is simply demonstrating to an instructor that, if something goes wrong, you'll bring the airplane back to the field...oh, and that you have the flying capability to do it.

Continuing to go solo, getting your license, getting your commercial license, and flying as a career are all simply a demonstration that you make safe decisions. For a commercial operator, its that you make the safe decisions while also taking into account how much money you will take from the owners wallet to do it...oh, and that you have the flying capability to do it.

+TSRA : LOL Chris Hadfield is my prof now :P i think he loves that line, he said something like that while lecturing to us during a seminar.
Thanks for your advice. Great to hear from the more experienced pilots out there.

So jealous! Cmd.Hadfield is a great man!

@RT787 : and I'm jealous that you're in Vancouver where you could fly almost everyday :P