Ikarus C42: My first solo flight at Shobdon with Swift Light Flight

[@JottErr]

I strongly recommend to unlock the rescue-system as first step.

[@hythesailor]

How exciting! Great to watch your first solo.

[@minuslr]

Cool to see. Look forward to mine :-)

[@jdavison8551]

Very nice camera angle and set up. Thanks for the ride.

[@texhow1]

Well done Philip, it certainly wasnt boring to watch.

[@PhilLee1969]

Thanks. And it was good to finally catch up Paula too.

[@sUASNews]

Well done Phil, thanks for all the great work you do for the UK GA community.

[@PhilLee1969]

Thanks although I've not really done that much. I did however feel that it was important to be part of the GA community so that I could really understand the issues.

[@rhysmodica2892]

I soloed only last week in the same plane. I had it real tough. A short and curved runway that's always challenging. Took me a while to transition from the previous EV-97, to the Ikarus, but the plane handles nicely once you get the hang of it. I've been trying to replicate it in FS. Trouble is that I've had to tweak the flight dynamics a lot to make it behave more like the real thing. By instructor waited until we spent an hour of circuits and then basically told me he was jumping out (with the plane on the ground of course), and let me get on with it. That was that.

[@MattThornton87]

Well done! Great video, wish i had filmed my solo in a PA-38. Good luck & fly safe.

[@PhilLee1969]

Thanks. Stay tuned as I'm just uploading a video from yesterdays solo cross country navigation exercise from Shobdon to a deserted Hlafpenny Green and back.

[@roystheboy]

Nice solo and great landing

[@ranbirsingh7666]

Well done Phil.. must have been a BUZZ doing first solo circuit.

[@PhilLee1969]

Absolutely, never to be forgotten !

[@Marcel-jv4ze]

Nice flight!

[@heidbummer274]

Hi Phil, Loved the video - well done on the solo flight. Hopefully you will upload many more vids as they are very useful for both student NPPLs as well as qualified pilots - not to mention entertaining. I must confess I had a knowing little smile to myself regarding the mag finger trouble in the vid. I completed a flight this afternoon in the brilliant C42 and after doing the mag check before shutdown, I switched the master off before the mags??!! - very annoying - but nobody is perfect. Keep up the good work. Neil

[@PhilLee1969]

Thanks Neil. I was hoping no-one would spot that ! I'm not sure why I got the items in the wrong order despite having the checklist in front of me and having done it perfectly about 20 times before. I'll definitely do more videos. In fact I've recorded almost every lesson so that I could go back and review them. In the hour or so that each one lasts there's lots of information that gets passed from instructor to student that I would normally forget so the videos act as a really good reminder. I've just invested in another GoPro with image stabilisation which will hopefully sort out the shimmering video that you saw at times in this one. I'm intending to post a video of most of my solo flights although - as I'm hour building now - I'm not sure how interesting people will find circuits at Shobdon.

[@heidbummer274]

Hi Phil, Thanks for the reply. If you and your instructor are happy - I for one would love to see the previous lesson vids. Neil

[@PhilLee1969]

@@heidbummer274 My instructor is happy for me to post my flights but not the lessons. I have to respect his request. With the weather good for Monday I'm hoping to do another solo flight (just circuits) after I've had a check flight with my instructor.

[@heidbummer274]

Phil, I completely understand. Thanks again Neil

[@andrewbarrett42]

I did a flight last bank holiday from Shobden,Steve took me up over Bodenham,amazing,want to do it again.

[@PhilLee1969]

Learn to fly - it's well worth it

[@andrewbarrett42]

@@PhilLee1969 Are you based at Shobden,I,m coming down to Herefordshire end of July,I want to have a go in a flex wing.

[@PhilLee1969]

@@andrewbarrett42 I don't live in Herefordshire but in the adjacent county of Monmouthshire but Shobdon is my nearest microlight school and Swift Light Flight (where I'm learning) offer one hour experience flights in the Ikarus or in a flex wing. More details here: swiftlightflight.co.uk/gift-vouchers/gift-vouchers-experience-flights/

[@paulbennett6933]

Well done, you will never forget your first solo. Is that mr Richards approaching the aircraft? If so he was my instructor at EGBO great guy.

[@roystheboy]

Dose the CyberLink PowerDirector 17 Ultra you use convert the gopro footage

[@bobskimaxx]

Well done Phill!! Next week the Mach Loop!!!

[@PhilLee1969]

LOL ! That's a looooooong way off although I quite fancy flying up to Caernarfon at some point so who knows !

[@alexlee6074]

👏👏

[@PhilLee1969]

Hopefully we'll go flying by the end of the summer !