oh super excited but super nervous today
because today i'm going for my first
ever
solo in flight on the sling behind you
just gotta make sure you're ready to go
you're legal you're just gonna do three
laps in the pattern full stop taxi back
and then go up again in two niner right
we're going to go inside really quick
though i'm going to give you your
endorsements make sure your student
pilot certificate
looks all good to go and you'll be ready
to go let's go
so i heard sam was going to solo today
and i decided to come out here and wish
him luck be there on his big day do you
remember what was your first solo line
that was supposed to be many years ago
so first time i saw it was in
2008 it was great it was on an
uncontrolled airfield i remember the day
very nicely
instructors on a handheld radio was
quite nervous at first got in the plane
did my three take-offs and landings and
it was great and i wanted to do another
one
and uh it was a great day great feeling
nothing quite like that feeling very
surreal
and tim i'm super excited to see you do
your solo i know you're going to do so
great
my first solo i actually did it was
actually out in las vegas it was really
windy it was not my best landings i've
ever had
but i'll tell you every pilot as they do
their first solo they remember
everything that happened sam
i don't have much to say but you go out
there
nail those landings and don't die
hi sam well good luck on your first solo
it's just going to be you in there so
the plane's going to feel a little
lighter but you're going to do great
you're going to nail it
same really hopefully no murder heart
from this plane and you'll be fine
grease it man all right man good luck
sam there's nothing like your first solo
go make us proud
so i'm all ready for my first solo
flight and how could you not make a vlog
on your first solo flight right i want
to share with you the action camera i
use
is called the insta360 this is the
insta360 one
r it's actually a very smart camera it
comes in a modulus so you can detach
and attach with different lens so this
lens i have is a 360 camera lens
and this camera also comes with a 4k
wide angle lens
it also comes with one inch sensor
edition with ultra high 5.3k resolution
so the best thing i like about this
camera is the fantastic image
stabilization
and extended battery pack it lasts three
to four hours in one single charge
this is an extendable invisible selfie
stick
so you will see magic during my video on
my solo flight you can film
without even showing the stick the stick
would completely disappear let's talk
about the editing super easy everything
can be done on your phone
with the insta360 one hour app there's a
lot of cool effect you can create in the
shot lab here
and also you can download insta360
studio on your pc
and macbook to ping down the best 360
angle the best images and best
creativity
buy an insta 360 one hour camera you
will get a free invisible selfie stick
buy from the link in the video
description and use code samtry
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torrance ground sling a62 sierra lima at
the field pits with information alpha
thinking six two seven minutes round
round two on the right thanks to the
echo alpha juliet only tuned on the
right texas via echo alpha juliet
who's here anymore all right let's go
this is very different first time i'm
taking this plane it feels so
exciting and so strange as well without
instructor
i'm gonna prove it to him i can do it
all by myself let's go guys
oh looks like we have traffic jam three
planes on the threshold
waiting so i'm gonna just taxi in here
doing my
power run up
the flying attitude is eleven hundred
feet for emergency briefing that
if anything happens on engine failure
zero 200 during takeoff come
straight ahead to land if anything 200
600 also come ahead to the service to
land
anything a 600 to a thousand will turn
back to land on any of the two runways
here or on the grass
if over a thousand we join the traffic
pattern and come back to land
okay box check
the power run of complete let's taxi to
the active runway
our transponder said 1200 fuel pumps
both are on
trim is neutral and flaps just take off
position one seat belt is done
canopy closed and locked torrance tower
sling a62 sierra lima holding trail tune
on right
request right close traffic blink two
sierra lima right close traffic approved
win two seven zero at one five runway
two nine are right tip takeoff
turn on the right clear to take off to
sierra lehman
approved traffic
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i'm turning crosswind now
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now turning downwind 290 right
link to sierra lima extend down when
i'll call you base
extending downwind to sierra leone
playing two sierra lima base proof from
eight to nine a right cleared land
base approved turn on the right clear to
land uh
and finally left sides clear
black swan
about three
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so
strength to sierra lima turn left down
hotel contact round
level hotel contact ground thank you
very much to ceremony
purchase here leave a room eighteen
interrupt clear four take off right
close traffic approved
clear to take off two nine right here
two zero
full power
55 rotate
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number three following a sling a turning
uh mile right base for me to name it
right here
number three following company sling on
turning base right now
uh it will be a full stop landing
tonight right roger uh sling two series
right there to win two night right clear
to land
uh okay i've got one traffic
coming on my right when he passed my
wing at 45 degree i start turning base
slowing down
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maybe too low this time adding a bit
more power
turns power sling a62 sarah lima holding
short two nine right
requires the right close traffic full
stop landing number two following
up one mile final overlay right there
i felt there's a bit of crosswind the
winds gusting up in the afternoon here
then this will be my last landing let's
try to make a good one
aren't you certainly me your bastards
are free from what you're doing right
clear to win
two night right clear to land to sierra
league one zero you're following
uh number two sling mylena half right
base runway two nighter right clear
touch and go
terrain terrain collapse one clear on
the left
here on the right side ahead pull up
turning final two in the right last
full landing down
500. okay now the glidescoop is
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good
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so
oh a little bit bumpy
oh i made it i landed back myself three
but the last landing was slightly bumpy
a little bit
i could have done better
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i made it congratulations
yeah high five man yeah so
happy i felt like the first one was
nervous and then after that would become
easier and easier
the wind was a little gusty it was a
little crosswind everywhere but
i thought the first one was bad the
second was better the third one i had a
little slam
but uh here i am i made it back stay
with the plane back in one piece i
didn't die
hey guys i came back man yeah you did it
high five
congratulations that's so cool in my
academy
a lot of students are worried about
their future because right now there's a
big airline downturn
because of covet what's your opinion
what's your take for future aviators
so just in my experience because i've
been around aviation for a long time my
aunt was a flight attendant
so i saw everything that happened
through 911 the 09
even in the 80s there was a time where
there was a lot of furloughs that
happened and these things are just
cyclical and this is obviously a little
bit different but it's similar in the
sense that
aviators are going to go through a
little bit of a difficult patch right
now but these things always pop
back there's still a lot of flying
that's happening it's just not in the
passenger side there's a lot of cargo
flying i know some of the cargo airlines
are hiring as fast as they can possibly
get people to come in
so there are opportunities it's just
changing the the types of flying that's
going to happen are going to change
and the reality is is that people are
going to keep flying so it's just going
to come back it just is going to be a
little bit of a slow down for a little
bit
anybody who's made that commitment and
you're doing this now do not
feel that you're left behind with this
in 2008 no one knew
when the airlines were going to hire
again i was going to potential two or
three years so i get a job
every hour of flight time you get today
equals one hour closer to get your 1500
hours and one hour closer to your dream
cutting sam's shirt sure you wear a
cheap shirt when you solo
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done there you go
so here's a bit of reflection after my
solo two months ago i came out of sling
pilot academy
to fly the sling airplane right i wasn't
too sure because you know my body
coordination wasn't great
i never felt can be a pilot but it's
through all the training i have about 42
hours of flight training
a lot of bad landings a lot of
go-arounds wrongdoing
and the instructor helped me a lot but
from what i gather is
flight training is like building up the
experiences the more hours you fly
the better you are and the better pilots
you can be
so the only effective way to do this is
come out and do it
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you