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By Micromouse
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FlyingBoot wrote:First solo yesterday. A very welcome early Christmas present. Still buzzing today. Boy, the climb rate felt phenomenal but remembered to start descent slightly earlier and still did a glide approach.

Congratulations


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By T6Harvard
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FlyingBoot wrote:First solo yesterday. A very welcome early Christmas present. Still buzzing today. Boy, the climb rate felt phenomenal but remembered to start descent slightly earlier and still did a glide approach.


Well done! Keep grinning, you've earnt it :mrgreen: :clap: . Where are you flying from?
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By Milty
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FlyingBoot wrote:First solo yesterday. A very welcome early Christmas present. Still buzzing today. Boy, the climb rate felt phenomenal but remembered to start descent slightly earlier and still did a glide approach.


Well done. Everyone comments on how different the aircraft performs but no amount of talk can actually prepare you for it.
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Flying from Little Gransden, Cambridgeshire. Aircraft was an Ikarus C42 as going for NPPL(m). I guess the difference in weight is proportionally greater in such a light aircraft when the instructor gets out compared to more regular GA aircraft that the perfomance change is really noticeable.
Managed to get in five circuits before the instructor called me in as another student was waiting. Can't wait to fly again.
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