nervous to solo

I have just over 400 hours and still get nervous on occation. I think it is normal like everyone else has said. Talk to yourself, get flight following, keep busy scanning for traffic and knowing where you are on a sectional. These things seem to help. Good luck with the solo tomorrow.
 
Nothing wrong with being a little nervous, it will keep you sharp. Couple things that helped me: only use your gps as a backup (if you have it), rely on pilotage, dead reckoning, and cross check your landmarks with an intersecting radial. I also felt more comfortable when I got flight following. Not sure what airspace your flying out of/in, but most controllers are more then happy to help you out with it.
 
think of the money you're saving with no instructor there. 40 bucks plus 40 bucks is 80. That's like beer for months.
 
Just think of things that could go wrong when you are by yourself. Like engine failures, fires, control surface failures, stalling on base to final, or veering off the runway.

Hope this helps....:D:rolleyes:
 
rontiveros91 said:
Thanks for all the help and tlc guys. Wound up switching instructors and I think that was what the problem was. Did some dual and I feel good to go now, not nervous anymore(especially after the lazy eights, hammerheads, and low flying we did). Gettin up in the air tomorrow to do my first solo cross country, not letting it hold me back. Thanks again guys. :beer:
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Not to rain on your parade or anything, but if your new CFI is having you do lazy eights when you're trying to get comfortable with flight in general and ultimately for you right now, your mission is to complete Private maneuvers to PTS, not Commercial. Personally, my opinion is, if your CFI is having you do this, I don't really see how that is money well spent at this stage in the game. Lazy Eights is certainly not a hard maneuver at all, that's nice that you're exposed to it, however, you'll get plenty of exposure to it later.
 
nevermind the lazy 8's- how about the hammerheads?

Either this is a poor/un-entertaIning troll job, or... well, I'm not going to think too hard about it after a martini or two.
 
If you're not a little nervous, something is wrong with you!

Have fun with it but tell every controller and unicom that you're a student pilot. When I soloed in airplanes I had about 5 hours but I already had a commercial/instrument in helicopters (about 1,000hrs under my belt). I STILL told Approach and Center and Unicom that I was "a student on my first cross-country solo". I figured if I told them I was stupid from the start, they wouldn't expect much more than that.

If you tell them you might do something stupid from the start, they'll give to a lot of oversight and will also give you a lot of pointers to help you.

Did I mention, Have fun with it?
 
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