1st Circuit Solo

[RonM]

Hi All,

Been lurking around for a while now and have found a lot of information from your threads. Well as the title said I completed my 1st circuit solo yesterday , at the Illawarra Regional Airport , Albion Park NSW Australia. It is really an amazing experience to have nobody in the other seat where there had been for the previous 21hrs. It is something I will never forget. The landing was a bit ordinary but my instructor said I tidied and gathered it up well. The main thing was I brought the plane and myself home in one piece and had fun. Bring on the rest of my training

Cheers, Ron.

[Miken100]

Congratulations!!

Welcome to the club!! Still remember my 1st solo... one of the memorable experiences in life.... made all the more poignant when they told me afterwards that Liverpool was on full fire alert (done for all 1st solos at the time... presumably still the case!!)

They say it is probably one of the best landings you will ever do... I remember after takeoff that mental tape that said "Oh S**T - I've got to get this thing back down again!" and that the Tomahawk shot up in the air like a champagne cork without the second person...

Good luck with the rest of your training...

Mike

[7of9]

Congratulations. Well done &welcome to the club.

[Ds3]

Congrats

My first solo circuit wasn't that long ago. You've got the milestones yet to come of the first solo nav, then solo land away.

For me, each one surpassed the other in terms of sense of achievement - it just keeps getting better!!

[Pull what]

The landing was a bit ordinary but my instructor said I tidied and gathered it up well.

Good to see your instructor watched your first solo flight, congratulations Ron!

[I Love Flying]

Congratulations Ron!!!

[thing]

Well done that man.

[Weirdfish]

Well done indeed sir

[Slasher]

Congrats!

First solo day is a day you'll never ever forget.

I still remember mine untold yonks ago like it was yesterday.

[Cessna 172S Skyhawk]

First Solo

Congrats man. Well done. I only did my first solo on Sunday last, and strangely enough when I was taking off and after the 300' checks and turn onto x/wind leg, I only realised then that I was on my own.

Usually I am cleared to take off when just after I hold short, but for my first solo ATC told me to line up and wait. My instructor was up in the tower with the controller and I never heard that before (thankfully I know now).

When I was coming around from the base leg onto finals I kinda overshot and had to track back, but it was one of the best landings I have done out of the nearly 60 that I had practiced.

Amazing experience. To echo what was said above, I'd say each next milestone sole NAV and x/country just gets better and better.

To the skies....happy flying

[dr_darcy_tyler]

Well done mate!

[emmccan]

Congrats, i went solo in the Hunter last month great feeling.

[Slasher]

I was trained in a DH82 (I loved Tigers since I was a kid) and
was booted out of the nest after 6 1/2 hours instruction incl
spins and loops.

CFI got upset because I done 3 circuits ISO only the one as I
was told to do. Loved every bloody second of it and worth the
consequential abuse!

[RonM]

Thanks to everyone for their kind remarks and encouragement. Probably not as fast a learner as some on here but once it all falls into place it stays there. As much as I am doing it for the love of flying I am very serious about being a safe and responsible pilot on the ground and in the air.

Cheers, Ron

[foxmoth]

Good to see your instructor watched your first solo flight,

I think there are very few instructors that do not, I have been instructing 35 years now and would still watch a student on their first solo, firstly, though you know they will be OK there is always that slight nag at the back of your mind, more important is to be able to give feedback and debrief it properly, hopefully the debrief is just "Well done, nice landing", but it is no good the student taxiing in afterwards and saying "what happened at 'X' point" if you were not watching.

[Grob Queen]

Many congrats :

Best feeling in the world isn't it, and as others have said, it just gets better! Its now a year since my first solo, i'm still training , but am just enjoying the experience.

good luck with the rest of your training, and enjoy yourself!

GQ

[HowlingMad Murdock]

first solo

Congratulations RonM - it must be an amazing feeling!
All the best.

[3 Point]

Good work Ron, congratulations and welcome to the rest of your flying career!

[Tangozulu28]

Congrats!

[InfraBoy]

Well done Ron, I remember 3 first solos of my own! 17 years old on day 5 of my flying scholarship (in 1990 you could do a PPL in the UK in one month!) in a C152. Then 5 years later I was sent solo for the first time in the RAF. I revalidated my PPL a few years ago after a gap of almost 18 years in my civilian logbook so again had that feeling of being alone for the first time. But the most focusing of all was my first solo in a glider a couple of years ago! Awesome!

Best of luck, fly fun and fly safe.

Chris