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First Solo Flight First Solo Flight

Sept 20, 2011

"Skyhawk 36DS turning left downwind, runway 15," I announced. I turned to my instructor, Chuck, in the right seat. "Full stop? touch and go?"  
"Whatever you want," he replied. "You're the pilot."
I thought about it for a moment. Touch and goes were a cheaper way to get more landings in, so I preferred them. Touch and go, I decided.

I looked to the runway, and it was already past time for us to descend. Uh oh, I'm behind the plane, I thought. Not good. I was still trying to re-orient my brain from having practiced emergency landings, picking a field and descending towards it. Now what to do... still going

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An exercise in futility.
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... yeah, it was one of those days. I needed catharsis.
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~Aeroflyte Dec 17, 2011  Student General Artist
I completely forgot to tell you- last weekend I got to fly a plane, sort of! The Scout troop I'm in went to Coulter Field to get stuff done for the Aviation merit badge. We'd talked to some group of pilots to come out and help us get most of the requirements for the badge done, and at one point they were taking the kids who knew enough up in a little Cessna and this other homebuilt stunt plane that was tiny.
I got to go up in the homebuilt (which was tiny), and we flew around for about 30 minutes. I did get to take the controls for a bit, but it was mainly keeping the plane steady and circling back to the airport. It was awesome.
Apparently the people who came out are part of a program through which you could get a pilot's license and everything- I'm really thinking about it, but not necessarily with that group.
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~meganbednarz Dec 17, 2011   General Artist
Btw, I'm flying in to College Station soonish... for my cross country flight O_O and once I get my license, I am going to be flying up there at least a couple times :D

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and ye waters that art above the heavens.
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~Aeroflyte Dec 18, 2011  Student General Artist
That's awesome! Yeah, I saw some of the flight requirements and stuff for getting a license, and some of it's pretty cool. Cross-country? Even if it only takes a few hours, you still flew across the entire continental US.
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~meganbednarz Dec 18, 2011   General Artist
LOL not exactly... a cross-country flight is any flight that is more than 50 nautical miles away from the airport you started at. And plus, a flight across the whole US would take more than a few hours in a plane that can only go 125 knots at cruise speed ;) (that's like... 138 mph or something)

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~meganbednarz Dec 17, 2011   General Artist
Woah. Do you know what kind of homebuilt plane? Cool! :D See, if you were in Civil Air Patrol, they'd call that an Orientation Flight ;)
I know the A&M Flying Club is pretty awesome, they have 5 planes and quite a few instructors. It's probably the cheapest way to get your license.

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*Wolf-Flash Dec 15, 2011
Aweh indeed.......
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~meganbednarz Dec 15, 2011   General Artist
Cumulus clouds are like dragons: Small ones may make good pets, but big angry ones will eat you for breakfast.

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*Wolf-Flash Dec 16, 2011
:thumbsup:

And some cute little innocent-looking dragon babies do grow and grow and grow into big monsters too...
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~meganbednarz Dec 16, 2011   General Artist
It's true. Gotta watch out!!

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*captainflynn Dec 15, 2011
Aww :)
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