Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:22 pm
Good for you. I'm glad you and your instructor are back on the same page.MacPara23 wrote:I flew again and also talked to him yesterday. He was waiting for me to make the move to ask to go forward after getting some confidence flying alone. We are going to go on another short dual tomorrow to get me prepped for doing the more sophisticated stuff, i.e. short/soft field and forward slip to a landing. With having me do it solo afterwards with ground supervision.AZPilot wrote:Solo should also be a time to gain confidence in your abilities.
There is nothing wrong with just taking a "sight seeing" trip to the practice area once in awhile.
My only concern would be that you don't lose the proficiency that you had pre-solo. After solo, you and your instructor should be really trying to get you prepped for the flight check. The "grunt work" is really pre-solo, and usually a student should try to finish up pretty quickly afterwords.
Did your instructor put any "conditions/limitations" on your solo endorsement? Also wondering if you have taken the written yet?
He got very cautious in the last few months as he had some guys going nuts after soloing, freezing up, freaking out, etc.. So he wants to be sure that I do it at my own pace and that I ask for a moving on. I guess that's reasonable.
Yes, he put a 10kts surface wind limitation on it.
And, yes, I ticked the knowledge test off the list weeks before I soloed.
You should have XC coming up as well.
What aircraft are you flying?
