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Congratulations! Who will be your first passenger?
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I already have lunch plans with my Mom, a friend, and possibly my younger brother this Friday.
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Couple things. First, I recommend going up solo next and do a little flying without the checkride monkey on your back before taking up pax. You're still understandably giddy with excitement, but an excited pilot can make for nervous pax. Pax want to see calm, cool, collected. It's also a good time to start shifting from checkride-precise flying to smooth-for-da-pax flying. That means rolling into banks slowly and gently (pretend you're an airliner and your pax don't want to spill their martinis), and gentle climbs and descents--cruise climb rather than Vy or (heaven forbid) Vx, and 200-300 fpm descents rather than 500-1000 fpm. Keep those banks gentle, too--steep turns are fine when you're solo or with other pilots, but they'll just scare your mom and she won't want to fly with you again.
Second, start putting together an outline for a pax briefing and get some barf bags. Ya never know when a pax will need one (better safe than stinky). If the plane has a 4 place intercom and you can rent headsets for everyone, do so--pax don't like being isolated from the pilot, even if it's only in their head. If you can't outfit each pax with a headset, it's polite to have a fresh set of earplugs on hand for them.
Third, expect the plane you've trained in to fly like a pig when loaded with full fuel and a butt in each seat. Don't neglect your weight & balance and add 15-20 lbs to your estimates of each butt (add it to pax-reported weight, too).