My First Solo Flight | PA28 | 16 years old
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- čas přidán 28. 08. 2021
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At 16 years old with just under 10 hours of initial flight training, I was ready to complete my first solo flight!
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✈️ | G-BNVE | PA-28 Archer
⏰ | 10 hours total time
📅 | 19/08/2021
📍 | EGTN | Enstone Airfield, The Cotswolds, UK
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I'm 64 years old and also first soloed at 16. I have never forgotten that experience...and neither will you. Well done.
Congratulations brother! This was truly inspiring to watch as a 16 year old myself. I wish you a very good luck for your training and the future. Keep it up mate.
What an amazing flight! I’m 12 and did a trial flight on the Piper PA 28 and can’t wait to go into training when I’m 14. Never forget this, it’s an experience for life.
Its pretty rare in the states to get signed off for solo with as few as 10 hours flight training! Well done!!
Congratulations on the day you will remember for the rest of your life. Clearly you will make a very good pilot, so if I may, I would like to offer a small but important point to help you be a great pilot. Have yet another look at the video (I'm sure you've watched it a few times) and look at the amount of aileron "jiggling" going on and look at the response of the aeroplane. It's hard to see a reason for most of the inputs, but if you look carefully you will see the adverse yaw that occurs, especially on short finals. My point is, don't make any control input unless you are prepared to ask yourself why you did it, and if you need to apply aileron in particular, use a little rudder to counter the yaw. Wishing you a long and happy career in aviation.
What????? No shirt cutting ceremony?
Did ATC ever tell you they could hear your heart beating out of your chest in their headphones, during your fist solo?
Hey, I’m 16 as well and just did my first solo 3 days ago, so I totally feel what meant your “wow” :) Did you knew beforehand you were going to do your first solo ?
It's lovely.
Soloed and got my drivers license on my 16th birthday. I was so excited to get to the airport that I ran a yellow light at end of driving test and the examiner made me wait about an additional hour to re take the driving test. Lol , a day I’ll always remember.
I’m currently 17 years old and looking heavily into Aviation as either something to do or as a career. The idea of accelerating down a runway and taking off has always been a dream of mine.
This is a really wonderful thing to see. Thanks so much for letting us all be witnesses! You brought back so many fantastic memories of all of the "firsts" we get to do as aviators.
Very good work on your first solo! I hope that you are getting closer to finishing up training for the private pilot. You'll enjoy having this hard earned privilege, whatever you choose to do with it. I like that you stayed alert during the ground and pattern phases of the flight. You seemed to have had a good instructor teaching sound habits.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. "LOVELY"...you said it all with that statement and your greasing of the landing! Happy Flying!
Wow, good job.
"lovely" is what you said, indeed that landing was absolutely amazing, and I loved it too!! way to goo!
Congratulations mate, it was great to be along for your first solo flight.
Well done Lad the look on your face says it all good luck with everything for the future 👍
Spent a few years as an FI and I must say, very good, your airmanship was superb. To many forget the situational awareness and keep their heads inside. You have a good career waiting
Cool.. Expecting more videos from you Thomas❤️