Solo'd!!! & Caught on Video

Eric,

Back when I did my Private, for the most part I was flying 3 or more times per week. As pointed out earlier, this will serve you well in many ways. If you continue that focus and schedule, you will be a Private Pilot before you know it. I'm looking forward to watching the video documentation of the journey.

Do you have your written knocked out? If not, now is the time to start focusing on it and get it out of the way. With your three flights a week focus, and solo behind you the checkride will be upon you before you know it, and having the written out of the way will prevent any delay that could allow you to lose the edge that frequent flying provides a student pilot. If you were to stop or slow down your stick and rudder work, that edge will go away faster than you can imagine.

Good luck, keep us posted and stay out of the trees.:)
 
Congrats,, and you fly right down the street from me ( KGVL here ).
 
Congrats on the solo!
One thing that caught my eye, was at 1:11:45 as you were taxiing back to park, the aircraft in front of you as you came in is exactly the same as mine, an Archer II with the exact same paint scheme!
 
StinkBug said:
Awesome video!

Question, how are you getting both ambient audio, and the intercom/radio audio. Seems every other video I see is either the mic built into the gopro getting everything, or a cord plugged into the intercom that only gets what you hear in your headset.

Also, what are you using to attach the camera to the wing?
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Dallas,
Yes, I actually use three GoPros and the one that captures video from the side is in a skeleton case. It captures the ambient noise. Syncing the audio can be a bear but, it think it is much better with the sound of the engine also.
As far as what I use for mounting the camera to the wing, it is the standard gopro mount that uses 3m doublesided tape. The bond is incredible. It'll take me 30mins to get it off once I have to remove it when I am done.
 
MBDiagMan said:
Eric,

Back when I did my Private, for the most part I was flying 3 or more times per week. As pointed out earlier, this will serve you well in many ways. If you continue that focus and schedule, you will be a Private Pilot before you know it. I'm looking forward to watching the video documentation of the journey.

Do you have your written knocked out? If not, now is the time to start focusing on it and get it out of the way. With your three flights a week focus, and solo behind you the checkride will be upon you before you know it, and having the written out of the way will prevent any delay that could allow you to lose the edge that frequent flying provides a student pilot. If you were to stop or slow down your stick and rudder work, that edge will go away faster than you can imagine.

Good luck, keep us posted and stay out of the trees.:)
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Doc,
Been steadily working on studying for my written. Maybe another week or so. It has been a while since I have been up here but, I am still trying to move along at an aggressive clip. I completed my 5hrs of xcountry, I am 1.3 away from the required solo time so, that leaves the 3hrs of night xcountry and my remaining 1.5hrs of hood time. Then it is practice, practice and more practice.
 
Eric,
In that video, is the turn coordinator broken? I didn't see it move at all. I see the slip ball moving around but not the turn coordinator.
 
Holly long video Man! I have to watch this at home and not at work. The IT director will kick my but if I stream this at work. Oh wait I'm the IT director.
 
Was that a taxi out or a drive to the airport? Good god that taxi never ended! Do you ever take off?
 
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