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Old April 24th, 2008, 19:34   #51
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Thanks everyone. My mom is slowly getting more open to me soloing when I am 16. I just explain to my parents that my instructor is covering almost anything that could possibly go wrong during my solo flight and how to correct for it.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 01:29   #52
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like 35 hours. it was a 141 course though, and solo was one of the last things on there so...
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Old April 25th, 2008, 02:21   #53
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I sucked. I had about 25 hours.
I sucked worse. The first time I flew by myself I had over 700 hours.
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Old April 25th, 2008, 03:00   #55
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I sucked worse. The first time I flew by myself I had over 700 hours.
Lucy...you have some splaining to do
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Lucy...you have some splaining to do
You never fly by yourself in Army training.

Didn't fly a plane till I was a few years in.
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You never fly by yourself in Army training.

Didn't fly a plane till I was a few years in.
Gotcha. They don't make you come to pilot training with PPL in hand in the Army?
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Gotcha. They don't make you come to pilot training with PPL in hand in the Army?
Nope! No previous flight training required or desired, really. They like to train ya from scratch.
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Hah. My mom didn't find out until I took her flying... as a 400 hour flight instructor.
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Old April 27th, 2008, 14:03   #60
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Hah. My mom didn't find out until I took her flying... as a 400 hour flight instructor.

WOW! Talk about communication!
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Old April 27th, 2008, 14:36   #61
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15 hours in N5342P at KBFI in Seattle, WA. We had tried to get it done several flights in a row but the weather kept getting in the way. I got three landings in just before the next "system" came. You never forget your first solo, especially when the visibility is going from 7 miles to three in a hurry, and the ceiling is droping like a Cirrus full of lawyers.
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Old April 27th, 2008, 17:15   #62
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My instructor looked at me and knew I could fly. He tossed me the keys at 0 hours. But that was 20 years ago. Pretty cool.
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