Student Pilot First Solo Cross Country || Piper Cherokee 180
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
- This is my first solo cross country as a student pilot. I am not going to lie: I was really quite afraid of getting lost.
My flight path:
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00:00 Intro
00:53 Takeoff
02:03 Looking for KEQY
04:32 Looking for Marshville
05:19 Looking for Pageland
07:37 Approaching KUDG
08:27 Landing at KUDG
10:51 My thoughts
11:48 Outro
Concord-Padgett Regional Aiport
KJQF KUDG KVUJ
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⚡1dullgeek@getalby.com
This was a really big step on the road to my private pilot license. It was incredibly rewarding. I can't wait for more.
I enjoyed your experience as well. The camera didn't capture the gist of what you were doing but what were you using more. . .your sectional OR your Nav Log? From what I could tell, your Nav Log was overlayed on the sectional or did I miss it?
@@Spec62 Thanks! So whenever I felt like I knew where I was, I was focused on keeping the navlog updated. But when I was not sure where I was, I was using the sectional to see if there were any other landmarks that I could use to help me find where I was - for example, at 5:47. I put the navlog on top because I had to write on it and putting the sectional on top would make writing difficult.
When learning to fly i so often flew at 3000 -4000 or so. When I took my private exam the FAA examiner made me go down to 1200. Then made me go cross country a bit just relying on my sectional and looking out window. This was 1976 no GPS. Would not let me use VOR. That was something i had not done. Hard to do flying that low. But a good learning experience.
@@babyboomer9560 yeah I really didn't use my gps until after I had my private. My instructor was insistent on that.
I’m a student pilot out of KVKX, I’m currently working on the beginning stages of cross country. This video was amazing. I enjoyed the pilotage and dead reckoning the most. May I give you your flowers now Sir 💐 👊🏾 outstanding work
Thank you for the kind words! Good luck on your cross countries. They were my favorite part of flight training.
Nice! Great radio work! Can't wait 'till we can go flying together!
Me too!
Haven’t watched it all yet but it’s super entertaining. Had no idea about dead reckoning. That would make me lose my sh*t. Keep it up.
Thanks fam!
Just finished it. Really really good stuff here. Well done.
Thanks, Lope!
Very encouraging!
Thanks!
Wholesome video, really enjoyed it and learned some stuff too.. being a simmer i am very lazy at doing manual math but this is encoraging to take some time and learn how do simulate this if there was an instrument failure etc etc A+
Thanks! I got into flight simming a little bit when MSFS 2020 came out. I think it's what actually lit the fire to get me to take flight lessons. Something I've wanted to do since I was a kid.
I actually used MSFS 2020 to practice this flight. When I say "I think that might be the lake" at 7:13 it's because I saw that lake in the flight sim and decided I was going to use that as a much easier waypoint to see than KCQW which was my official waypoint for that leg.
Awesome video, Geek. Good on you, chasing your dreams.
Thanks!
WOW. Congratulations Mark. How incredibly exciting.
Thanks, Pat! I haven't heard from you in a while. I hope you're doing well.
Man honesty is the best
Agree
soo exciting to watch Geek!!
Thanks, Bahd.
I was so freaked out about getting lost during the solo XC's that I was doing Class C Transitions out of my class G airspace airfield (23N) and had Flight Following to all destinations and back. LOL!
I know, right? Hope you're over that now. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Smooth flight. Mine was super bumpy and windy.
Yeah mine was pretty smooth.
I grew up in the eastern US, but all my piloting experience is in the Pacific Northwest. Pilotage in flat country must be so much more effort! I'm so spoiled here with a row of massive volcanoes stretching from the Canadian border all the way into California! And most everything in between is pretty distinctive too.
Interesting! I never considered how much easier it would be to do pilotage and dead reckoning when you've got some terrain to help. I just assumed that mountains (and such) are trying to kill me with their crazy wind and upslope fog.
Now that I've got my private I really need to do another significant pilotage and dead reckoning flight just to exercise that muscle.
@@1dullgeek I'm currently learning to fly in the Netherlands and it doesn't get much flatter than that :) Even if you think you know the geography pretty well, it can be hard to actually look down at it and fix your position. Everything bloody looks the same from above... my instructor told me to not just rely on single landmarks like "town", "wind turbine", "bridge", but to rely on looking for multiple landmarks and their spacial relation to one another to get a good fix.
Currently hoping for good weather for my first solo :)
@@kaasmeester5903 Your instructor is right.
Good luck on your solo!
Thanks for sharing. Great inside look.
Thanks, Joe
Let's go Geek!!
Thanks, fam!
Good job! You looked way to calm for this to be your first cross country. There is no way I would have ever filmed by first cross country! Kudos again!! You probably have your PPL by now, as I'm late to the game!! Take care.
Thank you. It's funny that you say that because I was actually pretty nervous. When I watch this that's all I see. But it's interesting that you don't. That said the nervousness was reduced after finding each successive waypoint. Just built up comfort that I wasn't too far off. In retrospect I wish I'd have added a few more waypoints. But hindsight is 20/20.
And yes I have my private now. I actually have my instrument now, too.
Thanks for watching and the comment!
Very cool, Mark. Nice job.
Thanks, Nick!
EXCELLENT SIR. Flying is addicting. I love my GPS, but never forget basic training. Congratulations on your achievement.
Thank you! I can't wait to get my checkride finished so that I can do more cross countries and go places!
Impressive stuff! I’ve just soloed so have this coming up in time and it looks busy !!!
Well done and keep the vids coming, it’s good to watch a fairly normal nice guy ( meant with utmost respect and sincerity), like me
Stay safe
Scott , UK
Congrats on the solo! That's awesome!!
Enjoy the cross country portion of training. It was my favorite part of flight training!
@@1dullgeek thank you , will do 🫡
It's so exciting to see you fly! Thank you for sharing with us. I am thinking about taking flight lessons upon finishing my bachelor's degree. I am very much excited about it. My only fear is radio communication 😅
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement.
As far as radio communication goes the best thing for me was rehearsing comms with my CFI on the ground or in the air before I had to do them.
Doing this made it a lot easier for me. Maybe it would help you too.
You are great dude, I'm with you.
I appreciate that!
Just did my first solo today and getting ready for cross country flying. Great video ! Looking forward to more.
Congrats on the solo! Enjoy the cross country training. I got really lucky on the weather and it was only 5 weeks between my solo and my first solo cross country. Hope you get the same luck!
I'm currently working on my second solo XC video. I just completed that flight last weekend.
@@1dullgeek thank you sir. I fly out of KTRI up here in Southwest VA/ NE Tennessee. I’m doing a little trip up to VJI on Friday morning with my CFI and we will get me comfortable with this. I’m just taking everything in right now from this morning’s solo flight and just super excited for the rest of my training.
What other tips or helpful tricks have you experienced so far into your training that you think would be beneficial to another student?
Thanks!
@@romanblevinstv The first thing that comes to mind is that you're flying in higher altitudes than me. My home airport is at 704'. Most of the places I've flown to have been closer to 100'.
But the thing that I'm starting to get used to is that as soon as I master something, when I introduce something else new, it's really not good. It's a 2-steps forward, 1 step back thing. And I go from being really excited (like at the end of this video) to my very next lesson ending with a terrible approach and landing.
But I hesitate to give advice. I'm really not that much further along than you. Maybe we'll meet up somewhere between TN/VA and NC.
Really enjoyed the video and glad you posted it. A thought occurred to me near the end that I hadn't really thought of before. This new technology we have with Go Pro cameras, audio recordings, etc, certainly make for really great CZcams content and sharing with others, but... it also seems like a really stellar opportunity to use it for debriefing with your flight instructor as well! Once upon a time, a CFI would only have been able to rely on your report, radio communications, etc, but now she or he gets to NOT be in the cockpit - so it's a true solo - and yet also BE in the cockpit, albeit after the fact, so that there's an additional opportunity to learn yet further, by your CFI reviewing the flight visa vie the video, along with you. Having now thought about it, I would imagine that probably gets done a lot and it had just never occurred to me before (haven't yet begun my flight training). So, all of that by way of prefacing my question... DID you use this video, or perhaps the unabridged version, to debrief the flight with your CFI and if so, how helpful did you find that to be?
Oh I have. I've recorded every one of my flights, but I've only made videos of the ones that are just me. My CFI doesn't want to be on youtube, so I'm respecting his privacy.
But I record and review every single flight. And when I have questions I review it with my CFI. For example on one of my recent flights I was practicing power off stalls and I noticed that I didn't keep very good rudder control during the recovery. So that'll be something I work on during a future flight.
Also my CFI saw was monitoring both of my cross countries with flight aware. After I landed on the second one, he said, "you flew some awfully straight lines." I showed him the unedited footage so that he could see I didn't use the GPS.
Great job! I remember doing my solo XC for my PPL, at that time, losing sight of my home airport was both scary and so much fun!!
Thank you! That was an incredibly rewarding experience!
I need to go back and do some pilotage and dead reckoning flights again. Just to exercise that muscle.
@@1dullgeek Me too lol, ForeFlight and the GPS makes stuff so much easier
@@pilotguy8685 Facts!
Yes, Getting lost is the scariest part.
100% But also really satisfying when the plan works out.
This is inspirational. Good on you for tackling your bucket list with this much work ethic! When I grow up I want to be like 1dullgeek
Thanks, my friend. But aim higher.
I agree sir. + his looks
Being a former Wisconsinite yourself, you’ll understand the local references… my first solo XC was to Oshkosh. By the time I leveled in cruise, I could see Lake Winnebago already. My second solo XC was to Door County… just follow the lakeshore until the peninsula! It was almost too easy but certainly boosted my confidence.
I should go do something like that next time I'm there. The view over door county must be great
Great job! I have only done in the sim - wish I had the time to dedicate getting a PPL IRL. I've only done ded reckoning a few times, but it is always cool when it works out exactly as you calculate. I think a lot of dudes hook up a portable battery bank via usb to their cameras to extend time.
Thanks!
The time is only part of it. The expense of getting a PPL requires a real commitment. Most anyone can do it, but you really have to budget for it, which in my case, means having to cut out other areas of spending in order to find the financial resources for what I want.
As far as the battery goes, I have an old camera (Sony HDR-AS10) that doesn't have an easy way to both mount the camera and plug in a battery pack. I need to put it in a case in order to have a mounting screw. But the case blocks access to the charging port. I just got a new camera though (DJI Osmo Action) and I can have it mounted *AND* plugged into a battery pack. So hopefully this won't be a problem going forward.
great video, I'm approaching the x-contry solo, it was nice to watch
Oh! Congrats! Cross country solos were my favorite part of flight training so far. I can't wait to finish my checkride so that I can get back to going places... and this time bringing my wife with me.
@@1dullgeek I've the same goal. Tired of going around the pattern
@@jucava00 Well best of luck to you! Even though XCs are my favorite, I really like every part of flight lessons. I'm starting to enjoy the challenge of nailing all the flight maneuvers. And I'm sure I'll enjoy nailing soft field landings as soon as I figure out how to nail soft field landings.
Thanks for watching and good luck on your training.
I was so darn nervous watching you! But congrats nonetheless!
Thanks! I love it.
That said, I was also nervous. I was worried that I'd get lost.
@@1dullgeek With your navigational skills, no way you can get lost!
This was the part that stopped me from getting my PPL, Apart from also being terrified of being lost, I got muddled up on the radio, I just couldn't understand what very busy ATC airports were saying to me! I also got in a muddle with the times on the stopwatch. I completely lost confidence and had to return without completing it - I just couldn't go through with it again!
Oh no! I'm sorry to hear that. I wonder if you might have been able to get a better grip on it with a different CFI. I've had a total of 6 CFIs and I've noticed that I connect with each one differently based on the topic. I wonder if a different CFI would have been able to communicate to your concerns better and helped you get over it.
Aug 1980 I soloed away from the airport. I got lost so GRK approach had me do 90 degree turns to identify me (the transponder was not working) When I landed I went to Gray Approach to thank them. The controller looked to be 17. My macho was destroyed. Never been lost again.
Wow! Really good to know some of the things that ATC will do to identify you. And really good reminder to stay humble. Thanks!
So awesome to see this. I am preparing for my cross country now. Can I ask about how many hours you had at the time of this flight?
Oh wow! That's great. My solo XCs were my absolute favorite parts of my flight training.
At my first solo XC I had 58.1 hours. Yeah I had a LOT of hours. I took my checkride at 175 hours. So yeah. Lots of reasons for that but in the end I switched CFIs because I didn't feel like his and my goals were aligned.
Im going to start my cross country practice next. I know we have to do it on paper first but Im certainly going to use foreflight when Im on my own...just in case.
Cross countries are still my favorite part of flying. TBH I wish I could go back to where you are now. Because it was so much fun. I'm in checkride prep at the moment and I'm learning to like the maneuvers. But for me there's nothing as fun as being able to travel to someplace new.
I have a subscription to foreflight but I don't use it in training yet. I use it to help me see what the weather is going to be like for an upcoming lesson, but not in the airplane. My CFI wants me to focus on learning the fundamentals that foreflight automates.
Once I get my certificate, though, I will certainly use foreflight in the airplane. Especially since I plan to travel.
Good luck on your flight lessons. I see you post videos as well. Dropped a sub. Looking forward to seeing your progress.
@@1dullgeek Ill def. have to learn the way you did it for sure. I can imagine it being a more proud experience than using foreflight. Im just not that brave not to have a back up. I use foreflight in my training mostly for traffic. Im training at an airport that is not controlled. So its a must because its a busy little airport in Knoxville TN. Enjoyed your video. Thanks for following. Im not very good at posting and editing yet, but Ill add more soon. Happy flying!
@@tnflygirl Makes sense. TBH I would like to start using foreflight before my checkride but I'm choosing to trust my CFI's call on this one.
Nicely done buddy. Too bad we couldn't see the rest like u said. It would also be terrifying if the radios went out too. Never been to any of these airports b4. Ur facial expression @ 7:34. Lmao Over yonder. Lol As far as ctaf goes, yes it's gud practice & required during training. Bt when it's all said & done it doesn't necessairly hav to be used if the class gulf airport is extremely vacant. Yes perhaps make one call to check if any other traffic is in the area. If not go for it. JNX is a busy gulf airspace because of Blue Line's flight school that moved there frm rdu las nov. Hope all this constructive criticism helped. #salute!!!!!
Yes you're right about coms at untowered airports. But I prefer people to know where I am and what I'm doing. I'm pretty sure that if I ever lost a radio, I'd squawk 7600 and find some place to land. That would not be a comfortable situation. I do have light gun signals attached to my knee board so if it happened at towered airport I could get some idea of what's happening.
Understood to all.👍🏾👌🏾
Good Job, sir. The 140 I was checked out in years ago had the trim handle on the headliner in the center. Where is the trim in the 180? I ask because the yoke looked a little heavy on the flair.
Cheers from Louisiana.
Thank you!
The trim in this airplane is a wheel between the front two seats. And I think it needs to be lubricated or something. It's always really hard to turn.
I have since bought and transitioned to a Cherokee 140 with the trim on the ceiling. I actually prefer the ceiling trim rather than in between the seats. And I am a ton more conscious of the trim. IMHO it's so much easier to set it with the crank rather than the wheel.
My flight instructor told me, "if you get lost, find a small town with a water tower and read the name of the town, then find it on the map!".
Interesting thought. Next time I'm up I'll have to see how effectively I can see the names on water towers.
Very cool buddy nice landing but always say flaps up as to not confuse low time students, we know what you mean though
Thanks!
I am 62 years wise and contemplating getting my PPL. If I may ask, how old were you when you started your adventure?
I started at 52. I'm 54 now. The thing that convinced me I could at least get my private was going and getting a medical. With those of us who are no longer spring chickens, it's important to start off with the medical. If you're not going to be able to get your medical certificate, then you don't waste a bunch of money and hope only for it to be dashed later. Best to get it first.
Look up 3rd Class Aviation Medical for guidance.
Yep, want to be like you taking wife to breakfast or dinner 4 hours away by car but hour and half by plane on a lazy afternoon Saturday
Yep. Looking forward to that.
I have found out that it is okay to ask if anyone is in the pattern, by doing so you establish clear communication to each other.
This is specifically advised against on AIM chapter 4: Pilots stating, "Traffic in the area, please advise" is not a recognized self-announce position and/or intention phrase and should not be used under any condition.
Do you disagree with that advice?
Lets go Geek!
Thanks, Kristin!