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No worries, I thought I should put a video up with all the ATC loud and clear after a few guys mentioned the music was distracting in my first solo video haha

 

 

A video of my second solo, about a week after I first soloed. Fairly busy traffic so I kept the background music to a minimum for anyone that wants to listen to the radio work ;)

 

 

 

Assuming you are departing in the general direction of the downwind leg, you could extend crosswind and climb above circuit height plus 500, but then someone could be a bit higher than circuit height plus 500 at that pointing still descending... Basically however you depart you just need to keep an ear and an eye out for any other traffic, right? From my limited experience G class operations are pretty dynamic and you need to adjust what you do for the situation.

 

 

Nice one mate congrats!!

 

 

Thanks for the wise words Boleropilot. Jabiru7252 if you fly over here from SA I will buy you a beer :p

 

 

Yeah I made the music a bit too loud Bob, although it was very quiet on the radio for Jandakot

 

 

Great work. What an awesome view you have with the bubble canopy! Love the sportstar

Yeah it's got great visibility, gets bloody hot when the suns out tho haha

Loved your last podcast by the way!

 

 

Some CFI may insist on this (& it might be a good idea) but its not an RAAus requirementCheers

 

John

At our airport it is a requirement. Also a medical is required even though I'm under ra aus, it's a requirement in our airspace

 

 

So I did fine in my exam, Narrambeen ricks information was bang on and covered everything nicely. Didn't realise I needed to do a radio exam as well before I could solo haha but I did fine in that too. Cheers for the help!

 

 

Just an older GoPro hero2 with a cord that goes between my headset jack and the camera, it just has a splitter. You can get them on most aviation gear websites

 

 

Got my first solo done! Such an awesome feeling :D

 

Was in an Evektor Sportstar at Jandakot airport, had been postponed due to weather and almost looking like canceling again until there was a gap in the clouds just at the right moment, like it was meant to be!

 

 

 

Just did my first solo today!!

 

Wasn't all that nervous, although in retrospect (watching the video back) my radio calls were sloppier than normal so I guess I WAS nervous!

 

The wind decided to start gusting pretty good the moment my instructor got out haha but all went well. Actually found myself looking around taking in the scenery for the first time since I started my training. Very cool moment and definitely one I'll never forget :)

 

 

Cheers Rick! My solo got postponed due to crosswind, hoping to get it done tomorrow. Feeling pretty comfortable with the written part, now I need to put the thing back on the ground haha cheers again

 

 

Awesome thanks everyone, hopefully my next post will be about me surviving my first solo ;)

 

 

Sorry yeah I should have mentioned, I'm doing Ra-Aus

 

 

I have my pre solo test coming up, any recommendations on what to study up on?

 

 

I probably wouldn't want to take anyone up until I have more experience anyway, I was just wondering cos some videos I've watched seem like guys are taking pax up when they're still restricted to the training area. I guess that would just be because they haven't done a Nav endo yet

 

 

I was wondering what was involved in getting some of the Ra-Aus endorsements, like passenger and nav, i.e. How many hours and what is involved in the test? Also, is the passenger endorsement something that needs to be done after you get your certificate or can a student be endorsed to take a passenger up in the training area?

 

 

Fair enough, thanks for the reply :)

 

 

I was just wondering if anyone knows the reason why most controllers in Australia pronounce the word decimal "day-sim-al"

 

There must be a good reason! Although I still don't know why we don't just say point like the Americans do.. Decimal is adding unnecessary time to each transmission in my opinion

 

 

If you avoid weekends Jandakot is pretty quiet these days. Rumour is traffic is more than a third down on previous years.

Unfortunately I'd be a weekend warrior due to work. Ugh unless I can guess those 6 numbers...

 

 

To throw a spanner in the works, the only place near me that does training in the cheaper light sport planes is out of Jandakot which is a quite busy controlled airport.. The uncontrolled strip I could train at is Murray Field, but I would need to fly a 152. Unless any Perth people can enlighten me on somewhere else I can go for light sport?

 

 

On the other hand Planey, country pilots never get all that radio and traffic experience.

Yeah that's one of my concerns. I am exactly the same distance from a controlled and a non controlled airport, and am leaning towards the controlled for just that reason, I don't want to be one of those guys that steer clear of controlled airspace because they're not confident on the radio. Although it will no doubt cost more, I think the experience will be invaluable.

 

 

Even though it's something we should defiantly avoid and stop from happening long before it goes that far, I still think every pilot should do some spin recovery training. I did some spin recovery in my very few hours of flight training so far, and apart from being a good learning experience, it's damn fun!!

 

Side note: Rec flyer are you Adam from the podcast or just a fan?

 

 

Oh and to answer my own question, I just read that you can carry more than one passenger on an RPL as long as you have a class 1 or 2 medical (which I already have)