First Solo in my Cherokee 180 Nashua Airport

stay on the center line i have the airplane okay you have the airplane i'm gonna let you take it around a couple go around the pattern two times you can do two touch and goes in a full stop you're gonna call ground you're gonna do everything except pre-flooding everything like you're going for the very first time uh this will be a hot start i'll hang out near the wing until you start and then i'll go like that and then i'll head to my car all right okay all right you can call the ground when you call ground yeah just tell ground you know just like you did when you first called them your student pilot first solo okay and i'm just gonna this is not your parking spot you know where to go when you come back yeah i'm just gonna turn it and face the hanger 125 so you can practice calling at hangar hangar125 okay all right sounds good you're gonna call him student pilot first solo i'm ready to taxi with whatever the atis is that makes sense sounds good do you run up a full run-up take your time call tower same thing nashville tower cherokee five two two four lima student pilot first solo holding show to runway three two and i'd like to stay in the pattern should i tell ground as well or uh that's you gotta listen to what i'm saying all right let me listen you're going to call ground yes after you get the atis and tell them your student pilot okay that all set yeah and you're going to go to the run-up area and do your run-up when you call the tower you're going to do the same thing after your call the tower nashua tower cherokee five two two four lemur we're holding shorter runway three two student pilot first solo okay i'd like to stay in the pattern when you tell him that he's gonna keep an eye on it because he knows it's your first solo okay it'll cut you a little slack and help you a little if you if something if if something gets confusing yeah but when i let you take this airplane and you know you can do this don't let anything distract you fly your plane first if you're not sure about anything ask that make sense makes sense and uh if you can't find your traffic just don't let that bother you just say i'm unable to find my traffic can you call my base or something like that that makes sense okay so uh when you when the airplane leaves the runway you're getting rid of 100 pounds you're gonna feel it right everybody's saying that when we first started yeah that's the biggest thing i can remember from my solo yeah that's the biggest thing yeah oh yeah you when i took off the plane normally you climb like this yeah you'll see it was like it was doing this seriously it was pretty impressive of a difference and the first thing that went through my head when i saw it is i'm committed now and then i just went just it was a normal flight i was just like my instructor sitting on the side of me i did what i was taught that's all you have to do okay and you'll um you'll come around after the first landing you'll feel good remember you can go around at any point so the airplane is going to be lighter so you're going to do everything the same way but because it's lighter if you balloon a little bloating is okay just wait and let it sink but if you balloon you gain a lot of altitude full power go around okay uh then it's usually after the first landing you get a feel for the weight and then you'll adjust but i'm just telling you now it's going to be the first one's going to be bad it's just when you come in you just landed a few times with me in the airplane it floats it definitely floats and then it settles down but when you when you start to raise the nose without me in the airplane it's going to have a tendency to go up a little faster right so we gotta we gotta be cognizant of that it's gonna be a little bit more sensitive you have the airplane i have the airplane you can shut it down here put it down then when you come back just taxi into your spot okay no use your checklist please the checklist right right i don't know why i'm not doing that all right shut down [Music] turn my bluetooth off too [Music] alt 1200 organize the compass way off white like not centered right radio master switch on fullest tank 208 that traffic is going to be a stop and going over two runway three two clearly national ground cherokee 5224 lima is holding short hanger 125 with information juliet he's a student pilot going on for a solo taxi ricky five two two four lima runway three two ten delta [Music] right left right a lot of people on the pattern now bought traffic or whatever all right we're gonna do our in-flight instrument checks air speed is zero i'm really excited about this attitude indicator is not moving more five degrees that's fine i just was going to answer you like the the automated weather more than five degrees [Applause] good altitude altimeter is 200 it's within 75 feet 0 4 0 75 feet along at a safe speed it's not gonna cut us off or anything um our turn coordinator turning correct direction the ball is going opposite our directional gyro is moving accordingly [Music] [Applause] [Music] runway three two taxi via charlie enough our vsi is indicating zero [Music] [Applause] next round on a two 208 hold short and give way to that air coop up the direction that you can tax your department i hope you want to get rid of this don't want it in the way this is it this is literally it this is the day get nervous landing parts apart that nerve makes me nervous like a robot honestly i've landed it like 25 30 times not like something i'm just starting the best of me they're a little jake as i would think taking our time not really in any rush right there too they do much from the ground but awesome brakes hold your full rich throttle we're going to set to 2000 rpm make sure our brakes are holding magnetos less than 100 90 80. name okay germ instruments in the green oil pressure oil temperature bolts oil pressure fuel pressure excuse me carburetor heat on watch for 100 rpm drop about 50 it's okay working suction gauge is four to five full meter charging not charging charging throttles when i bring back to idle above 500 carb heat still above 500 back on our back of vacuum pump working well power back to a thousand in the middle of the e flight controls are free incorrect collapse we're going to do no flaps today elevator and rudder trim set to neutral heat there's no visible moisture and we're well above five degrees centigrade i need those on both great electrical fuel pump we're going to turn on next year we're going to set the full rich instruments are going to check and set that's ever so good our altimeter looks good air speed is still at zero our turn coordinator is zeroed out additional gyro we'll just double check that i think this processes really quickly have that looked at is still at zero gauges are in the green volts are green oil pressure is green oil temperature is green fuel pressure is green orange storm window patched here seat belts and harnesses are fastened lights are on on on transponder 1200 alt tune to tower 133.2 retake off briefing an engine a failure on the runway maximum wheel dynamic braking advise atc engine failure on takeoff leaseable runway remaining pitch the nose down close the throttle land the plane maximum wheeler dynamic braking revise atc we have one on climb out we're going to try to if we're going to lower the nose for safe air speed we're going to try to continue to climb if we can't climb or maintain altitude we're going to pitch for uh best squat we're going to find a suitable landing spot and put it down using shallow banks fuel pump comes off mixture idle cut off fuel selector off and we're going to uh uh land the plane full flaps for minimum speed and uh if i jt should shut the master off same deal if we have a fair speed we're gonna pitch those down rough running we're to return uh it to his atc return for landing uh engine that's cut out we're going to pitch for any landing or anywhere on the field we're going to uh uh put full flaps and once landing insured fuel pump off i sure make sure it'll cut off fill selector off get your best glide speed land the plane buys atc master switch comes off before actually okay takeoff briefing is complete uh for all the stuff we were taught on runway 3-2 on taxiway alpha of someone coming in but that's better we're not cleared yet [Music] nashua tower cherokee 5224 lima is a student pilot on spray solo holding short of runway 3-2 ready for takeoff requesting to stay in the pattern it's a stop for some reason something we do a lot november 5224 lima that departing traffic is going into the right closed you can follow them into the right close report midfield runway three two clear takeoff follow the traffic we'll take a right pattern report midfield cherokee 24 lima runway 3-2 verified your final all right no crosswind but swim talk's dead all right full power 2300 rpm air speeds coming alive and your instruments in the green accelerate a little bit and then we're off that sink does climb huh a home second angel all the pattern traffic we see it more poor midfield right down when i wait for them to be passed give max back here going to pass our wing is going to make our turn no more than 20 degree bank delivery 722 charlie bike turn this up a little bit three two cleared stop and go seven two two trolling mike clear it stop and go three two two lost the traffic also get them back again and that's retards through six and four when i try to hold detroit three [Music] charlie without delay wrong with three two clip takeoff traffic is about to hit the right base for the so yeah all right let's go without delay for me charlie cherokee five two two four lima is uh midfield uh student pilot uh requesting a touch and go seven two two charlie mike uh traffic is a serious taking the wrong way for departure should be no factor here's the site 17 charlotte mike turkey uh two two four lima the traffic you're following is an experimental on the right base at about a half mile out for the option have the traffic inside cherokee two two four lima we'll follow him ricky for lima roger uh number two ruby three two cleared for the don't you go wait for the touch and go two for lima i'm only three two wait for his past experimental it's pretty cool start cutting our throttle add a notch of flaps add another notch of flaps how about we get over here idea your final trim up a little bit in 70. start making our turn now in shallow banks a little slow just pulling out the control that's why going runway is made at the throttle our aiming points transitioned positioning down the runway okay here's our flaps charlie uh turn on course food performance rotate national power system 1983 3-2 ready for departure close traffic 9833 on departure to the right close report midfield runway three two quiver takeoff clearing for takeoff right traffic import midfield industry pasta charlie mike right downwind uh stop and go hello banks to charlie mike 1983 uh actually if you wouldn't mind just go to the uh go to the left side please cherokee five two two four lima's midfield requesting the option turkey five two two for lima the uh sling traffic ahead of you is going to be doing the uh stop and go your number two runway two clear touch and go cherokee five two two four lima have the traffic in sight uh clear touch and go following the experimental ashrae tower air coop 94855 coupe nine four eight five five nashua the altimeter is at three zero four zero uh i'm saying mil temperature is reading 1800 feet i'm showing that on the radar as well okay uh i'm over the bud plant like to follow the river down a little bit and come back up on the other side if that doesn't get interfered with your traffic no it doesn't uh at the moment it does not i do have uh four aircraft in the pattern right now for roadway three two just be advised please power helicopter two two five five five tango number one that bravo for three two hole second notch two two five foxtrot can you back up and i'm gonna depart you from alpha five that works [Music] clear downwind there's an aircraft short final for the stop and go alpha tax way in the 3-2 direction clear for takeoff and to the left closed and report midfield approximate tango cleared for takeoff on the uh alpha tattoo we got all things left 833 midfield left down went to the traffic journey final fight just hitting the final at about a mile a mile and a half for the option all right thank you guys stepped on each other we have the traffic coming up on the highway 1983 you're number two to follow that uh cherokee traffic runway three two cleared for the option number two please stop going here otherwise i'll have to do a go around roger i've got you on my radar okay thank you tower 72 charlie mike uh requesting uh left uh crosswind departure 266 722 is approved i do have a helicopter on the left side now just coming up on the midfield i'm sure when you make the turn you'll get a little bit helicopter left turn approved uh thanks for your help this morning 722 charlie mike my pleasure thank you very much have a great day good too sir helicopter firefox rectangle download for the option and i can take uh approaches well it looks like it's going to work out that the approach to runway will work just fine the uh traffic you're following the green i don't have a firefighter that's perfect then you make sure number two to follow that test of traffic runway three two clear for the option clear for the option on runway three two five five tango two to five five trial attack you're number one now you can make the approach where you bring it in any time you want period craftsman shallow banks remember 20 degrees 20 to 30. safe pilot today every day all right just our trim here a little too much better attitude look outside against the horizon right here departure 249 my gecko continue holding short landing traffic 1983 go to the right side this time all right turkey two four lima's midfield requesting the option turkey five two two four lima rum eight three two clear for the option uh and if you would just give me some space for departure prior to your arrival clear for the option we'll give space for uh departure cherokee lima thank you too for liam if you don't mind i'll just call your base because actually disregard uh it's a little bit of space for that departure that he's lighting up now sounds good listening for you to call my base for lima you know what actually i was going to call your base because of the helicopter that's on the go now so i no longer need to do that you can turn the base your discretion just give me some space for that departure two for limo uh we'll give space for a departure and call my opponent's base check youtube for lima three four nine mike echo runway uh three two cliff take off and stay in touch until we go chris take up and westbound departure now oh roger one notch third final notch 1983 traffic is the uh cherokee dog leg to final at about a mile and a half traffic in sight a three three one eight three three number two only three two clear the option clear for the option 833 number two helicopter two two five fox rectangles right midfield downloads the option i got traffic in front ahead of me on download two to five fox right tango that makes your number three runway three two cleared for the option clear for the option number three on uh stabilized approach referencing our air speed go down a bit cut the throttle actually three four nine mike get go you can uh change food if you like [Applause] again for three four nine uh mike nicole three four nine michael people change food five two two four lima without delay uh down to charlie make a left turn there contact round pointing your left turner charlie contact round point eight but that's away two four [Applause] [Music] [Applause] roger hold short landing trap national ground cherokee five two two four lima is that taxiway charlie ready to taxi to hanger 129. ground unicom flaps mixture we already leaned to the right away cherokee two five communicate with ground all right left clear right i mess up i i just soloed wasn't too hard our checklist back verify using where we are too fast white level charlie off left clear right all right after landing engine shutdown checklist the onyx master switch off you

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Published: Thu May 26 2022