Solo
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Topic: Solo
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Subject: Solo
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:01pm
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Yeah, so, I got to solo.
The day after my 16th birthday (16 is the legal age required for a solo), I got up there and took off and landed 3 times. It was a total blast. Nothing like being up there completely by yourself. I just wanted to share because I've been flying for 2 1/2 years, and I couldnt solo until now. I didnt solo exactly on my 16th b-day due to bad weather :-(. Anyway, heres a pic (i'm on the right, my instructor is on the left)  ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
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Posted By: woodsballer87
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:03pm
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:07pm
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How about you fly to Connecticut, pick me up, and we party it up in your leer jet? ------------- 
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Posted By: :ShockeR_ratm:
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:07pm
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IJM > Me ------------- 
Nobody ever suspects the fun police! 
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Posted By: bravecoward
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:10pm
OMG HE POSTED HIS PICTURE! ------------- 
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:ShockeR_ratm: wrote:Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:14pm
cane, and removed his ice for that picture... He didn't want to intimidate his instructor with his overwhelming pimpitry. -------------
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Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:17pm
You are one funny man, sir. ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: Bauerp0weR 18
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:17pm
Congrats!  .------------- Black Smart Parts Ion Halo B Check-It Unimount macroline 68/45 Pure Energy tank |
Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:20pm
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Congradulations... Stay safe
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Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:35pm
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Heh, I should hope I'd stay safe up there... you got a million things going on, sometimes its hard to even think. ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: Dan db09
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:36pm
| dont hesitate or your screwed |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:37pm
Eh... if you're ever feeling rushed the best thing to do is take a step back and take a breath... ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: vftactical
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:40pm
| was it cool how did you do |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 22 August 2004 at 11:41pm
It was awesome, my first landing was a bit shakey, but still was good. Second landing was better, and the third landing was utterly beautiful... I could barely tell when I hit the ground, and I was smack dab on centerline. ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: Hades
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 2:47am
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Congrats my pops would want you for a son. ------------- 
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Posted By: paintballman_13
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 2:53am
| Do you have your own plane? |
Posted By: rootsradicals
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 2:54am
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congadulations on the solo, my friend is taking flying lessons right
now, hes 16, i don't know how long he was to wait to fly solo, or
anything about flying. but good job |
Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 6:57am
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Good for you.
------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: MSG.Mobius
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 8:19am
Your my hero ------------- 
Coming in May 2005! |
Posted By: youm0nt
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 8:31am
definitely! |
Posted By: †Sniper†
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 8:34am
haha |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:15am
Yeah, well, my folks bought a 2k2 Cessna 172SP two years ago, and we lease it back to the flight school, so they use it as a rental/instruction plane. They pay us for use of our plane, so in a few years the plane will actually pay for itself, so then we'll practically have a free plane (minus fuel and maintenence) Not a bad plan, eh? ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: tippy_182
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:18am
How expensive do those things get? ------------- 
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Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:21am
A new 2k2 172 went for about 180K. Fuel costs just under 3 bucks, and you burn 10-11 gallons per hour. ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: MetallicaESPa5
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:24am
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180k? wow. thats a LOT! congrats man ------------- 
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Posted By: Sumo_Monkey22
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 11:51am
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I am not worthy...
Good job IJM! |
Posted By: Smitty
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 1:19pm
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Posted By: BradNowell
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 1:24pm
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i always wanted to take lessons and get a lisence. My dad used to fly
and he said that lessons and everything cost him 15k in like 1975. It
must cost A-LOT now!
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Posted By: EYES
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 1:57pm
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Damn son... 180K for a plane???? That's 3 times what my house is worth Congrats though. Don't drink and drive, smoke and fly!
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Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 2:58pm
Heh... smoking is just straight up nasty... ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: pballa j.r.
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 2:58pm
High while your high.... that would be the shiznit! Anyways, congratulations dude. ------------- 
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Posted By: boomstick
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 3:02pm
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I thought you were a girl IJM. Anyways, thats awesome you get to fly.
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Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 3:06pm
stemmed from the fact that IJM is constantly surrounded by beautiful women, because he's such a high-rollin' pimpateer. You probably mistook one of his many, many beautiful sex-slaves for him; a common mistake -------------
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Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 3:14pm
As for people that are saying 180K is a lot... well, of course it is, but you all may be forgetting that therefore I'm learning to fly almost for free (still have to pay for the instructor), and we're getting all the money back from the school. And whoever said they thought I was a girl... uh... ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: SandMan
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 3:58pm
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Aircraft are expensive, even the "cheap" ones. A pilot friend of mine use to say "If man were meant to fly, he would have been born rich." ------------- Real Men Love Cheeses |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 9:06pm
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Posted By: MSG.Mobius
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 9:25pm
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Not really. Poor people meant to fly, they jump of buildings, it's a short flight called suicide (Cause he's poor)] And another way to fly is the Good 'Ol USAF. -------------
Coming in May 2005! |
Posted By: chopper08
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 9:31pm
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congratulations my friend just soloed like a week ago. he said that it is so peacefull up there by your self ------------- a5 response trigger polished internals 14in lapco bigshot |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:02pm
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Nice job man! Did they cut your shirt tail off? They did for my grandpa when he did his solo....
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Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 23 August 2004 at 10:31pm
Haha, yup he sure did. In the pic I'm wearing my white undershirt... instructor ruined one of my favorite t-shirts   ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 24 August 2004 at 1:56am
Why do they do that? Enlighten me. All I can say about your solo is: FREAKIN' HARDCORE! That is truely awesome dude. |
Posted By: ItsJustMe
Date Posted: 24 August 2004 at 8:47am
Well, its tradition. So I've heard, pilots used to cut off their shirt tails and use them to wipe off all the oil/dirt spray from the propeller (seeing how they had open cockpits. What this has to do with a solo... I dont know. ------------- <Replaced gigantormous sig with strike, good trade.> |
Posted By: roadrunner0535
Date Posted: 24 August 2004 at 8:54am
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congrats...i flew a spitfighter from ww2 on my 14th bday...9 days ago
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Posted By: S\/\/4T-L()G4N
Date Posted: 24 August 2004 at 9:12am
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Until I read the thread I was thinking the instructor looked so happy because his plane was back in one piece
Anyway, congrats, that is so cool. BTW, that would be an awesome way to pick up ladies. ------------- 
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