My First Solo Flight | PA28 | 16 years old
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2021
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At 16 years old with just under 10 hours of initial flight training, I was ready to complete my first solo flight!
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✈️ | G-BNVE | PA-28 Archer
⏰ | 10 hours total time
📅 | 19/08/2021
📍 | EGTN | Enstone Airfield, The Cotswolds, UK
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I'm 64 years old and also first soloed at 16. I have never forgotten that experience...and neither will you. Well done.
Thanks Brian, great to hear that :-)
Ahhhhh Yes… I’m 63 years old and I solo’d on my 16th birthday… My dad was my flight instructor… who was also a USAF Test Pilot in the 60’s. After I solo’d… My dad drove me to the Bureau of motor vehicles for me to get my driving temps. I left the DMV driving my dad back home… It was the first time I had ever driven a car. I flew a plane, before I ever drove a car!
What an amazing flight! I’m 12 and did a trial flight on the Piper PA 28 and can’t wait to go into training when I’m 14. Never forget this, it’s an experience for life.
Congratulations brother! This was truly inspiring to watch as a 16 year old myself. I wish you a very good luck for your training and the future. Keep it up mate.
That's great to hear - thank you! Will do!
I’m currently 17 years old and looking heavily into Aviation as either something to do or as a career. The idea of accelerating down a runway and taking off has always been a dream of mine.
You make it look easy!
Attitude will control your altitude. Aim high!
This is a really wonderful thing to see. Thanks so much for letting us all be witnesses! You brought back so many fantastic memories of all of the "firsts" we get to do as aviators.
Its pretty rare in the states to get signed off for solo with as few as 10 hours flight training! Well done!!
Thank you!! 😁
Typically in the UK people do it around 12ish hours. We have to do 45 hours for the PPL, 10 of which need to be solo. :)
Very good work on your first solo! I hope that you are getting closer to finishing up training for the private pilot. You'll enjoy having this hard earned privilege, whatever you choose to do with it. I like that you stayed alert during the ground and pattern phases of the flight. You seemed to have had a good instructor teaching sound habits.
This brings back fond memories of my first solo more than thirty years ago. My training was in a 1977 Cessna 150. I hired an experienced instructor here in Texas and was one of the best teachers I could find. I like that we had a solid ground school syllabus and meaningful flight lessons. After all of these years I can still remember the techniques taught to me. Since then I moved on to instrument, commercial and multi ratings. It became an advocation next to my day job at the time. Now after retirement, I don't fly as much but try to get a flight in whenever I can.
Good luck to you and blue skies!
Spent a few years as an FI and I must say, very good, your airmanship was superb. To many forget the situational awareness and keep their heads inside. You have a good career waiting
Congratulations mate, it was great to be along for your first solo flight.
"lovely" is what you said, indeed that landing was absolutely amazing, and I loved it too!! way to goo!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. "LOVELY"...you said it all with that statement and your greasing of the landing! Happy Flying!
Thank you!
Lots of concentration led to that one word after landing! 😂 Glad you enjoyed it. 👍🏻✈️
That "Wow" on takeoff... I had exactly the same reaction on my first solo. Very confident looking circuit, too. If you were nervous, it didn't show. I still speak my checklists out loud, too. Nice work.
Well done dude! Reminds me of my RAF Flying scholarship, all that concentration followed by pure joy. All the best for the future
this is absolutely amazing, well done man
Well done Lad the look on your face says it all good luck with everything for the future 👍
Amazing to see the progress good on you!
Excellent job and at such a young age! Good luck with the rest of your training. I'll be following your progress 👍
Thank you, CJ! Loving it so far so excited to keep going.
Thanks for your support! 👍🏻✈️
Excellent job! I’m sure it was quite a thrill. Such a wonderful feeling it must have been. I’m hoping to solo soon. Taking lessons now. All the best to you!
Nice to see a 1st solo where the pilot actually looks around.
Wow, good job.
Must have been an amazing feeling to Taxi, take off, Fly and Land Alone…! 👍🏻
Yes it was amazing!... thanks James 👍🏻
Nicely done! Just had my first solo on 7.9.22, best feeling in the world!
Cool.. Expecting more videos from you Thomas❤️
Congratulations! Great awareness & attitude.
Congratulations on your Solo! ✈
Great job! And those seats are WAY better than normal ones I've seen in Archers!
Congratulations 🎉
a day that we all remember, our first flight, you will remember it also 😌
Right on! Great job man, can't wait to start my training hopefully soon.
Go for it!
Congratulations! All the best on the rest of your training!
Thank you, Tomas. Loving it so far!
Congrats 👏🏻 I love those seats 😍
I’m your 500th subscriber 😊 congratulations 🎉
Awesome take off and landing,I see you in the futur as a airline pilot,continue all the times,greeting from Montreal in Canada :)
Congrats! I bet you worked hard and deserved this!
Congrats! Total envy seeing you ride around in such comfortable seating in that aircraft... good on ya!
They're super comfy!
Thank you 👍🏻
Nice flying! Glad to see your head very active, looking out all sides. Also like your saying checks out loud. Helps a teeny bit to make you actually do them. Well trained. Good instructor. Keep doing "fanstops" every few flights; when it does happen, it will be easy....look out for smoke to tell you which way wind blowing. Now you can move on to aerobatics, formation, and low level, even Instrument flying........in the RAFVR, doing PAR GCAs to RAF Wharton, the controller talking you down - always supportive; nice to be part of a strong team. CAVU skies to you and all aviators. I built C-IAVW, an aerobatic biplane.
Soloed and got my drivers license on my 16th birthday. I was so excited to get to the airport that I ran a yellow light at end of driving test and the examiner made me wait about an additional hour to re take the driving test. Lol , a day I’ll always remember.
Well done yang man 100% GREAT FLIGHT !!!
Thank you!
Congratulations! Keep it up Buddy
Broo .. it's awesome 😍❤️
Hello from Phoenix Arizona. I also soloed around 16 in a Cessna 152. Congratulations!
Spotless congrats young man.
Dude. Woah. Well done!
Spot on mate , I rate that
Nice plane! I’m learning in an 1949 Cessna 152. Great video! I’m getting ready to solo pretty soon. I’m at 5 hours so far!
My Deep Respect from Switzerland :-)
Love that the GPS is zoomed out to see all of Europe. You got your sights set high! Congrats!
Thank you, Justin! Yes! 😂
Feel free to subscribe, another video out very soon of some more solo circuits! ☺️
Great job young man. Real nice.
It's lovely.
Well done, Did mine at 16 and there is no feeling like it.
Congratulations on your first solo! I have only managed to do this at the age of 25.
That was as coming back to my first solo flight. Good blind transmitting and a great flare before nosewheel down;)
And 10 months later, only one video. It's such a good quality video too. We need more! :)
Congrats! I remember mine WAY BACK 😉. My club just purchased an Archer, always liked flying them.
Thank you! 😂 Good choice - love the archer!
Congratulations on the day you will remember for the rest of your life. Clearly you will make a very good pilot, so if I may, I would like to offer a small but important point to help you be a great pilot. Have yet another look at the video (I'm sure you've watched it a few times) and look at the amount of aileron "jiggling" going on and look at the response of the aeroplane. It's hard to see a reason for most of the inputs, but if you look carefully you will see the adverse yaw that occurs, especially on short finals. My point is, don't make any control input unless you are prepared to ask yourself why you did it, and if you need to apply aileron in particular, use a little rudder to counter the yaw. Wishing you a long and happy career in aviation.
Thanks for the comment, Alan.
Totally agree with your point and was having a think about this the other day! Now just need to work on slowing things down a bit and, as your say, reducing the amount of inputs especially to the ailerons.
Good advice!
Glad you enjoyed the video :-)
Probably a bit of nervousness going on here! I know the feeling being alone in a moving airplane for the first time!!! It will all smooth out with time as you gain confidence flying alone! You also flying one of the best training aircraft you can ask for! It's what I trained in and it's a very solid and docile aircraft. Stay safe and happy landings!
Awesome! My 1st solo was 17 and was a great day
This. Is. Amazing. I’m 20 years old and I haven’t yet done this. One day though … one day. Well done for doing something like this at such a young age. I have one question though, what’s it like to fly a plane if you were to explain it to someone that’s never flown before?
Nice video, congratulations. Without doubt the best age to learn to fly in the shortest amount of time is early to mid teens. Verbalising intentions is a good strategy. One small point I thought 'take off' had been replaced by ‘departure'. Related to a misunderstanding in the Tenerife accident I believe.
congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm 14yrs old.
I want to become an airline pilot.
This is very inspiring....
What a touchdown!
Great job all around especially looking around for other traffic. Also did my first solo @16 yrs old , the beginning of my flying career
Good luck going forward!! 🇨🇦
Ah amazing! What were you flying?
Thank you! 😊
@@thecotswoldpilot DC-8, B737,DC-10 and last 11years on the B747-400
Flight Instructor for a couple years to build time
Pretty good line up! sounds great.
Amazing job! That landing was butter. Do you get to fly often? If so, you should do more RUclips videos of your flights.
Congratulations on your first solo!
Thank you!
Congratulations!
proud of you
best feeling in the world!!!! pro tip: don't forget to use the pitch trim switch on the yoke its also a very good friend. best of luck!!
Sadly that's inop for that aircraft! would be nice though :-)
Thanks!
Amazing flying for a 16 year old! Congratulations on being a solo pilot!
congratulations, thank you for sharing thrilling video, really appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you!
Fantastic, great job!
Thanks Ben!
I fly the exact PA-28, enstone airfield! Hopefully doing my solo in December when I’m 16!
Congrats young man, may you have a great and long career!
Thank you!👍🏻✈️
He will; i didn't. My mother put a stop to it after I'd logged 5 solo hours. (It was my dad's idea....)
Great video, congratulations!
Glad to hear you enjoyed it, Jon!
Thanks for watching.
Great video man! I have my first solo in a couple of months when I trun 16 and watching this just makes me even more excited but a little more nervous 😬 Nevertheless great vid 👍
You'll love it. Such a great experience. Thanks for your support, enjoy the training!
@@thecotswoldpilot cheers man training has been amazing and do not regret the decision one bit!
congrats brother , it is my dream & you are just 2 year older than me . *JEALOUSY INTENSIFIES*
Inspirational bro! I have also a question, where do you live because in my country it isnt allowed to fly in general before the age of 17. Greetings!
Good job!!
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Great work Thomas (not Tom). Looked like a very professional job and great RT. Welcome to the TFA team. Mike
Thank you, Mike!
Loving my time flying and working at TFA so far, look forward to seeing you again soon. Thomas :-)
Beautifully done. Soloing at 16 is very cool, but what's really impressive to me is the under 10 hours of dual. That's amazing. I recently soloed at age 32 with a little over 20 and I was proud of that :D.
My question: You have almost 600 subscribers and currently this video has over 60k views. Sounds like you could get a pretty good following if you crank out more content. Are we going to be seeing more videos?
lovely!)
Cool!
Yes, I know. Wow. Well done. 👍 Good luck.
Thank you 😁
Are you going to make any new videos soon? I loved this one!
69000 views congrats 🎉
Please upload more.
Hey, I’m 16 as well and just did my first solo 3 days ago, so I totally feel what meant your “wow” :) Did you knew beforehand you were going to do your first solo ?
Awesome! well done :-)
I was told I was ready to do it, so I had everything set up for that day.
Keep it up!
THATS A WISH FOR ME AMAZING! IN 16 yr old thats insane
Peace be with you dear pilot we love you
Nice!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Looks so fun how was the experience?
Wonderful 👍
Did ATC ever tell you they could hear your heart beating out of your chest in their headphones, during your fist solo?
They didn't, but imagine that's definitely true!! 😆✈️
I study in Greece and they don't allow 16s to drive only 18 by the way, your landing was amazing
only 10 hours and you've already soloed? jesus. i have around 30 hours and im still struggling with my landings. you have a great career ahead of you man.
also do you fly in the sim at all?
Where are you in your career now? I started back In august of last year but didn’t solo untin October. I’m currently onto my commercial rating right now
Am also 16yrs old and I really wanna to start my flight training but here at least you should be 18yrs old to start.(I`ve to wait 2yrs for this) . I don`t know what should I do? From where you started your flight training?
Same age as your when I had my first solo (week ago)
can i ask what flight academy is that
I’m 15 myself currently building hours in a 152. How do you find the piper I’m looking to hire that for a few lessons
Great to see youngsters with serious goals. I noted how alert for traffic you were on approach. Well done lad! Attitude will control your altitude in life, whatever you decide to do.
My solo was at age 22, 50 years ago. I remember it like yesterday, the late afternoon sun was casting long shadows as I taxied to the ramp. It was a great feeling of accomplishment.
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