First solo

2015-09-03
My flight instructor Börje Norell has his own way to letting you know you have your first solo in your practice. He aint telling you anything…

I flew my first solo on the 3:d of september 2015.

As every day before each flight lesson he asked, ”What do you want to do today?”
Me responding, ”Well I still have some problems to land”. So he said to me…
– OK, lets train on that then… so today we will only stay in the traffic pattern.

And of we went.

The day was wonderful… with many touch and goes under the first hour. My CFI said to me after a cuople of touch and goes that we should take a break and go and have some lunch. So we did a full stop and taxi back to the apron. Then we took a ride down to Nyköping city for lunch. We sat down and talked and he asked… so now, how do you feel about your landing? I responded – I had problems to land…

He simple said, well the day is young, lets go back to the airport and take another hour in the air… do some more landing…

So we did…

After Another hour in the air and after twelve touch and goes, we made a full stop and parked the Cessna 172 at the club…

Well I took the plane down perfect each time… I know that now… It was all in my head… doubts, but when your on doubts, you should rather stay at the gound, wishing you where up in the air, than be in the air wishing you where on the ground…

After we parked the plane outside of the hangar, he asked me… if I wanted to fly for another hour… it was still daylight… I said, yes… He replied, well do a checkup on the plane, check the oil, check the fuel and then come into the clubhouse for a cup of coffe.

I did the preflight, enter the clubhouse and drank a cup of coffe and talked about the previous lessions. Then we both went out to the plane and did ourself ready for another hour in the air…

The engine started up and we began to taxi, when Börje suddenly said to me, stop the plane, I have something wrong with my headset… so I stopped… He did some trix with his headset, unplugged them, opened the door, took his things and left the plane… and said, this time you go solo… Do two touch and goes then a full stop… the Tower has been informed.