I got my first solo today!!!!!

Today weather is fair but still have some crosswind. I had two flights today. First flight, I had praticed circuit with some emergency produrces such as flapless landing, engine failure after take off. Next, it is my solo flight. My instructor told me lots of things before exit the aircraft. ''If uncomfortable, go around!'' which is memorable for me.
I felt little bit nervous when my instructor leave the plane. But I still try my best on my flight. Fortunately, I had a good landing. Woho!! I done it finally when I get out to the plane!!

My lovely ''EYE''

Photo update 25/02/2012

our instructor !!

Solo flight " EYC "

Remarkable First Solo Done with EYC

To perform a first solo ， it is not an easy task and cannot be controlled by ourselves. Although you are ready to go solo ， you still need to rely on the weather. Our progress has been stopped serveral times on behalf of weather no matter it is sunny day or raining day as we cannnot fly on strong wind conditions. my first solo has been postponed also due to the wind. However today i finally make it ， i have done my solo with a crosswind approach ， the feeling of landing cross wind on my own is very amazing ！

Anyway ＂i have control！！＂

Specail thanks to my instructor andrew and jason who release me to solo ！

My First SOLO!

23 February 2012

The weather today is unexpectedly fine this morning. I seized the chance to fly the check flight with my instructor for emergency handling like engine failure during and after take off, glide approaches, flapless landing, engine on fire, etc. The circuit practice is my last revision before solo. But the wind suddenly changed, we had to change the departure direction from runway 25 to 07. This left hand circuit, which has been practised for only two times, becomes the challenge to me. Fortunately, I can still apply what have been learnt into real situation and land my EYC safely with my confident control. Therefore, "hope for the best, prepare for the worst" would be very useful in my aviation career life!

Being a Pilot is really a challenging and remarkable experience! 

Mike

Last lesson in Circuit !

Today , my instructor taught me Glide Approach and EFATO . In flight simulator , I good at this those action but in the real plane it is quite difficult for me to control !

I had try glide approach and full stop in Rangiora for two time . First time , I was too near the airport , need to go around . Second time, I got a low speed and my insturctor help me to balance the wing to land . I was still fail in this part of training .

After training , I had a debriefing with my insturctor Andrew who told me some skills in this part which is very useful . He also said " tomorrow you will do glide approach and EFATO again and have one more practice in Circuits then you will get a SOLO !!!!!  "

Yeah ! This is a big happy news for me !!

Our training aircraft " EYE " " EYJ " " EYF " " EYC "

some pic

[21/2/2012] btw sorry for late due to sleepy =]

full controlled circuit

[21/2/2012]

The weather is fine, overcast, with a bit chill in the morning,
but become hot after the noon.
Today i have two flight, first is about climbing, descending, turning movement, and stall recovery; everything is fine, good controlling especially turning and stall recovery is quite good, but need more practice on climbing to straight and level and descending to straight and level.
The next one is the introduction of circuit, which cover what should be done in a basic circuit, there are many things need to remember, and have to get more acquainted to the cockpit control surface.
Overall everything is fine, apart from flying was doing wifi source searching....yeah i found it finally, then start surfing in the net, also made a call to my mum (LINE), and my dear as well