Natalie flies an aircraft alone for the first time at KRNT on her 16th birthday. The KRNT pattern consists of three laps, starting with this one. She takes off in Cessna 162 Skycatcher N5213U from Rainier Flight Services. 16 is the earliest age at which a person can fly alone.
Soon after your first solo flight, your instructor will give you the go-ahead to continue flying alone. More weather choices, wind assessments, and other decisions that were previously made by, or in collaboration with, your flight instructor will now be your responsibility. If you have clear knowledge and precise information, you will be able to Cᴀʀʀʏ out these tasks more effectively.
Remember that your first few solo flights will be under the supervision of your instructor. Your instructor is unlikely to let you fly alone on a day with too heavy winds, and the flying school is reluctant to send an aircraft to you. It could be preferable to choose an alternative runway if the winds increase after takeoff. Your tutor will frequently establish wind limits for you; if the winds exceed those limits, you won’t be allowed to solo. You can gradually raise these boundaries as your ss improves.
Information about the many kinds of wind indicators can be found on our website. Wind direction signs include tetrahedrons, wind Ts, and windsocks. Since windsocks point downwind, you should fly from the small to the large end of the windsock when landing or taking off. You should take off and land in the same direction as the tetrahedron since they point into the wind. Takeoffs and landings are carried out in the same direction as the “airplane” because the wind T resembles one. Unofficial wind indicators like flags, pond waves, and crop movement can also show wind direction and speed.
If you’re not sure what you’re doing, go around with full force. Rather than rushing a landing, it is preferable to feel good about your approach to the runway. A go-around can be done at any point in the pattern. Make the go-around technique the rule, rather than the exception, in your thinking. Look for a reason, any reason, to prolong the exhilaration of flight by taking a second trip around the traffic pattern. Only land if everything is in order; else, circle.
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Video resource: Stephen Saslow Aviation
