First solo: Jim Craig

We recently asked pilots on our Facebook page to share the story of their first solos. Here’s our first entry from reader Jim Craig of Goose Creek, S.C.: My solo was a pleasant affair, very successful, but it presented me with some problems I had not seen in my limited flying — my instructor was a large man and even with my slim figure at the time, I suspect we were over gross often in the C-150. Continue Reading »

===> Posted on December 1st, 2011 by Janice Wood. No comments. © GAN 2011.

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