Solo in Centurion
Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 11:42 am
Hi All,
It's been a while since I have posted on the forum, just been so busy at work, that I just have not had time... Well, except to look at the airies for sale...
Back to the topic at hand though, on the morning of Friday 26th April, I alone and unassisted did take off from Eagle Creek, and safely land back on the runway... Even though I have gone through a similar experience in my PPL(h), it is still an awesome experience to break away from the bounds of earth on your own in something new…
Flo and Francois at Centurion Flight Centre do things differently to my previous experience, in that there is not a pressure build up to your solo, you don’t know that you are going solo until you get an inkling that something is up when you take off, and you are being reminded how different things will feel when you are on your own, and then you know it is now happening when you have done a couple of circuits, and you get told to land, and you get a pep talk from both Flo and Francois, and next thing you are off down the runway on your own… It is not made into a big event with other people and the performance pressure that comes with that, it is just you, your instructor, and the aircraft before take-off, then just you and the reassuring voice into the radio while you do that first flight…
It is awesome how the trike virtually jumps off the runway, now a whole person lighter, and how much lighter the controls are…
So all I need to do now are my formal solo hours, which will be in my new baby APE (thanks Alkemac for letting me take your baby and make her mine…) and I will be able to actively join in with this awesome flying fraternity we have…
Hope to see you all in the air soon
Craig
It's been a while since I have posted on the forum, just been so busy at work, that I just have not had time... Well, except to look at the airies for sale...
Back to the topic at hand though, on the morning of Friday 26th April, I alone and unassisted did take off from Eagle Creek, and safely land back on the runway... Even though I have gone through a similar experience in my PPL(h), it is still an awesome experience to break away from the bounds of earth on your own in something new…
Flo and Francois at Centurion Flight Centre do things differently to my previous experience, in that there is not a pressure build up to your solo, you don’t know that you are going solo until you get an inkling that something is up when you take off, and you are being reminded how different things will feel when you are on your own, and then you know it is now happening when you have done a couple of circuits, and you get told to land, and you get a pep talk from both Flo and Francois, and next thing you are off down the runway on your own… It is not made into a big event with other people and the performance pressure that comes with that, it is just you, your instructor, and the aircraft before take-off, then just you and the reassuring voice into the radio while you do that first flight…
It is awesome how the trike virtually jumps off the runway, now a whole person lighter, and how much lighter the controls are…
So all I need to do now are my formal solo hours, which will be in my new baby APE (thanks Alkemac for letting me take your baby and make her mine…) and I will be able to actively join in with this awesome flying fraternity we have…
Hope to see you all in the air soon
Craig
