There are plenty of first solo videos out there but Sling Pilot Academy did a particularly good job of chronicling this student’s big day.
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(Sigh…) “Let’s meditate…” (with our eyes closed… whilst taxiing… and preying…). Er, no.
She’s “preying” on you dickwad.
Geez, she barely blinked. Lighten up.
I prayed the Alan Shepard prayer on my first solo – “Dear Lord, please don’t let me f… up.”
This is fantastic! I wish my first solo landings was anywhere near as nice as hers were. I love hearing her comments to herself, and her reminders (on final “airspeed – alignment – airspeed – alignment”) – seems like she has had some great instruction. She’s obviously a great student.
Yep. I was nowhere near this capable. Video is great. I asked my instructor to video my first solo in a beat-up 172 at Hollister airport (California) in 1997. At the same time I was rolling down the runway, a real WWII Spitfire pulled out of the hanger and started up next to my instructor and that was what he filmed. I have awesome video. But not of my solo.
Couldn’t have asked for a more confusing tail number for a first solo! 29’s Juliets — incredible radio work for a noob. Very well produced. Enjoyed watching.
Great to see a positive and optimistic news item and new young recruit to the skies! Well done to all concerned. (Maybe that GPWS needs some recalibration though.)
Great job! I wish I was as composed on my first solo! All three landings were great! Good radio management… Good checklist references. Congrats!!
Frankly, what’s so new in those images? The fact that she used something in her head and was not in SA?