Describe your first day carry paying passengers

[airman]

Describe your first day on the job flying paying passengers. Were you nervous? Were you given the 1st leg to fly? How was that first landing?

[USMC-SGT]

I was gods gift to aviation right from the start and delivered the greatest flight in the history of aviation to the paying customers.

Flew my first approach to 1800 RVR with 300 OVC with a 50 knot crosswind with snow...no, blowing snow and freezing rain..no no, ice pellets, yea ICE PELLETS! I landed so soft that the passengers applauded and carried me off the plane on their shoulders. After the flight was done I got a call from the chief pilot who told me that he heard what had happened and upgraded me to captain so the captain and I switched seats and I flew my first turbine PIC leg the very next flight!

nevermind. It was good, I was a little nervous but after my first landing it worked out just fine and I realized that a plane is a plane and that I could in fact fly the bird just like I had been able to fly others before it. Overall it was pretty much just as I figured it would be. The most difficult stuff was what can not be taught in sims and that is how each airport works and when to call who and who to call on the radios. Also, was the order of what to do things to become more efficient and get the job done in a timeley manner.

I finished IOE with 230 TT and 8 ME....I kid, I kid.

[phoenix 23684]

My first flight with passengers was very memorable. To answer some of your questions, yes I was a bit nervous about flying the real thing versus the sim. I had a great IOE Capt and he let me take the first leg. It was a very short flight of 20 min and the interesting part was it did not sink in until I rotated the plane. 40 hours of sim and I had my flows down and basically I was just going through all my flows and checks and it was when I lifted the plane of the ground and started to look at the ground dropping that it sunk in that this time it was for real and that I had to be on my game.
The flight went uneventful my approach went great, but my landing was very firm, was told in the sim not to flare this plane and I didn't, of course it did require a little flare. The rest of the day was filled with 7 short legs, needless to say I was exhausted, even wondering what did I get my self into. Trying to do all the paper work and walk around to make a 15 min turn was not fun and not having hardly any time in the air to breath didn't help. So in short my first day went well, I did feel that I was hanging on to the tail at times. Fast forward to today and the same short legs don't feel as short, I can relax while keeping things flowing. I no longer wonder what I got my self into, instead I'm very glad, although broke, that I'm doing this and get to enjoy the view from my office. My previous profession was as a satellite engineer working in a world with no windows.

So what's the research for?

[ross9238]

The first leg of my first flight was handled by the IOE Captain. This gave me the time to handle the job of PM. I was nervous and more so when the controls were given to me on the second leg. For some reason, the idea of carrying passengers was not even on my mind as opposed to all the things I had to do. As far as I could recall, the flight was uneventful and the landing could've been a whole lot better . It was a great experience and continues to be.

[MikeOH58]

First experience carrying paying passengers...ahh...I remember the day like it were yesterday. Well I had gotten my PPL ASEL only three days earlier, so I was fairly new to the game, but I knew in my heart that even though the FAA wouldn't let me legally log all of my hours in MSFS, I was very experienced....Anyways...A couple and their two kids approached me and asked me if I could fly their Seneca out to Nantucket...I said sure! Weather turned out to be really bad during the flight. Thank God for those 3 hours of flight training by reference to instruments, or I don't know if I could have made it. So we arrive to ACK, and as I set the parking break two fire trucks pull up to me. They ask me if everything was okay, and I told them "sure, why?" They said I only landed with one engine running....I said "duhhh....look at my license...I'm only rated single engine" ba-doop-cha!

[WAFlyBoy]

All I remember is a lot of wind and noise as I clung to the tail of the airplane like a Koala bear to a Eucalyptus tree.

No, it really wasn't that bad. It was a good learning experience. At the end of the first day I thought that it was more like operating machinery than flying an airplane. That perception has changed with experience.

[ackeight]

I threw my passengers out the door my first day

I was a jump pilot though. The lady asked me if I was old enough to fly. And I told her yes, but I'm too young for her to land with me so no matter what your jumping.

[Pilot877]

January, 2001, I did my first 135 checkride over the Everglades, and was assigned a flight to San Andros, Bahamas immediately on return. I went out to meet my first passengers, expecting some tourists or homeowners: it was a Mennonite farmer and a friggin cow! Well, calf in a crate, to be exact...pulled seats out, and somehow got the dude and his cow in the back of a Cessna 402. The one thing that sticks out is that it let out a loud MOOOOOO as I started the takeoff from FLL.