She’s READY! Sienna’s Last Flight Before Solo

[@angleofattack]

She's almost there! Let's give her a big 'good luck' in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe to get notifications for her solo flight. Thanks to all those doing the SuperThanks!

[@smaarch1]

Can you explain the almost there comment?

[@AdoRec]

I’m exited for her ❤my first solo is tomorrow June 25 🎉

[@riaan_j5100]

Good luck 👊🏻 💪🏻

[@riaan_j5100]

@@AdoRec how did your solo go?

[@eugeneweaver3199]

Congratulations, Sienna! Absolutely thrilled for you! Thanks for letting us ride along!🥰

[@angleofattack]

Just around the corner!

[@johnharris3183]

Go Sienna!!! Congratulations on your progress!

[@angleofattack]

Yup!

[@TheResoluteHawk]

Her face on final all the way through the touchdown is just pure focus. Majority of it is looking outside too. 16:53 is just a bonus. Love it!

[@dabassmann]

Sienna, THANK YOU so much for letting us ride along with you!!! It has been spectacular to watch you progress and literally grow up to become an awesome and serious pilot. We cannot wait for your solo flight....I'm sure you NAILED it!!!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for the great comment.

[@Blown.300c_5.7]

My solo was the most exciting and rewarding accomplishment I had ever achieved! I completed my first solo on April 13 2024 with a little over 30 hrs. and now I am about to do my 150 nm XC solo tomorrow July 13 2024! Keep up the hard work Sienna, your Landings are looking good! Can’t wait to see the solo video!

[@berniebrown9115]

Have been following her process and so excited for her. Way to go girl

[@joezimmerman3848]

You go Sienna! Calm seas and fair winds on your solo day!

[@chef4chrst]

Sienna, thank you so much for sharing this journey with us! I have so enjoyed watching the entire process. Good luck with your solo and I look forward to watching the video! You got this!

[@angleofattack]

Almost here! Thanks!

[@markmaccani9411]

Great videos on this real live training series Chris. Sienna is doing a great job and looks ready for the next stage.

[@CaptainNeville]

❤❤❤

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna! You've been so awesome all along.

[@piperdakotaflyr]

Go Sienna! Ready to see the solo!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna!

[@richardkennedy7487]

Hey Sienna, been following along and learning with you every step of the way. Just soloed yeasterday (8july24) so hope you have by the time you see this. You guys have been really inspiring and helpful so thanks for that.

[@tommyknocker4829]

It's been a fun journey, Sienna. Show us how it's done!

[@TomJeffreyJr]

Thanks! Looking forward to Sienna’s solo!

[@angleofattack]

Almost here!

[@AndyPerry1972]

Good Luck on your solo Sienna!!

[@martysmith9167]

Hi Sennna, Having gone through your journey with you virtually, I had a buddy in HS that I flew a lot with when he was working on his PPL. He did great and is a very good and safe pilot! I see the satme kind of attention to detail and professionalism he had in you!!! Keep doing what you are doing and you will be great!!!

[@skyepilotte11]

Great progress Sienna...you'll do good on your first solo. Thx Chris for the great instructing.

[@angleofattack]

Thanks much.

[@freedomrider30]

C!!! Thanks! Been watching! Get it done!!! A+!!! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎

[@angleofattack]

Just around the corner.

[@LaweeenSlamNgo]

That’s awesome! I just did my solo not too long ago. It’s the best feeling

[@YFA912]

Congratulations from🇫🇷&🇪🇸, fly safe and have fun

[@richarddove3780]

Great job. Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna!

[@ToxicDover]

Best of luck on your solo Sienna! You're gonna do awesome - it's been great watching the learning process!

[@angleofattack]

I hope so!

[@charlesprince2224]

Remember your A.B.C.D.E. in a emergency A. Airspeed B. Best field C. Check list (memory items) D. Declare emergency E. Egress Looking good captain sienna. Solo time and cross country time next. Have fun 🎉

[@angleofattack]

Yup! That's what I taught her! Then she froze!

[@ChristianAir23MSFS]

@@angleofattack What does "Egress' mean?

[@michaelkillian7976]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna!

[@benfields7707]

You are an amazing flight instructor. I've learned a lot from you Thank you so very much.

[@jsfdeveloper8104]

All the best to Sienna! Going to start PPL myself

[@SeannBogguess-qe4dy]

Pulling for success for you Sienna! Go get it!

[@user-ef9er4vz8g]

My solo was uneventful. My instructor was basically quiet leading up to the solo like you were. So the solo was like my instructor sitting next to me and saying nothing. She'll nail it

[@chrish4783]

Love watching Sienna's progress in the same make and model aircraft as my own! Love that new panel... thinking about that!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks much!

[@Boxer1250RT]

Congrats to the Young Lady! She did awesome!

[@angleofattack]

Nailing it.

[@krmped]

Thanks

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna!

[@mikekoken]

We have been pretty much in lock step so far. I have two up on you now. When I solo'ed I talked to my instructor as if he was there for the first landing cause you know the first one is pretty nervous. After that I just did it like I had been doing it for a while. Good luck girl. You got this for sure.

[@angleofattack]

Amen to that.

[@julioserrano8730]

Sienna you are killing it. Props to you and for having a great instructor!!!!! You got this :)

[@angleofattack]

She's got great dedication.

[@codysp]

I think we're just seeing the "tip of the iceberg" with Sienna. Congratulations on your progress thus far, kick ass on your solo! 👏👍

[@angleofattack]

BOOM!

[@afumodz3232]

Congratulations. I'm super jealous.. I wish I had time and money to do this... Props to her

[@Hhhhh12864]

I think she could work on having a aiming point, preferably the runway numbers. I get why your not having her aim at the numbers and round out, due to it being your plane and most students usually flare too much at first and it causes some hard landings/balloning but it’s an important skill to learn to not glide onto the runway and rather pick a landing spot. But I don’t think it will ever be a problem because of the Cessna size but it’s a really important skill to learn since it applies to all citations, and if she ever wanted to move into the commercial side of aviation.

[@codyjaybditw]

I just passed my private checkride and this is an issue that I have had and I needed to fix it quickly before my checkride. I would just touchdown anywhere pretty much. Going forward I’m going to be more disciplined on picking out a point and touching down in that area.

[@rickclayburn9111]

You got this girl.

[@jamesrutherford9597]

Awesome

[@mikecoffee100]

They grow up soooo FASTTTTT Congrats Sienna You goo Gurl You Tube fans are here for you thinking good thoughts

[@angleofattack]

Nah, that would be too distracting.

[@andyhawaii2819]

Good luck 👍🏼

[@benfields7707]

Sienna you are doing great girl. We have enjoyed watching your flight training. Your going to do great. Wish you the best on your solo flight. Stay calm and you'll do great. We just came back from Cooper Center Alaska. I got to fly a Maule M-5. What a beast of a plane. Alaska is so beautiful. Learned a lot from watching you train Sienna. I'm not a pilot. Just applied what I learned from your channel. Thanks stay safe up there guy's

[@angleofattack]

Thank you so much!!

[@JimmyShot]

Gooooooooooooo Siennnaaaaaaaaaa!

[@richardkimrey]

Nice job young lady, almost there !

[@angleofattack]

So close!

[@100clagman]

Good luck you got this.

[@jamesrutherford9597]

It's time for Seldovia now. She does a great job.

[@matthewgrichmond]

Way to go, you got this!! 🎉

[@angleofattack]

So close!

[@chrisgilmore2618]

Good Luck!

[@WarrenKimpel]

another nice video THANKS

[@angleofattack]

Most welcome.

[@Menfiscz]

Still remember the first discovery flight sienna did, a lot happend from that time. She will be great.

[@angleofattack]

Amazing to see.

[@wolfschlickenrieder1380]

Yow yow - so good - you go girl! ❤

[@brennenfitzgerald]

Come on girl, you got this!

[@PilotJoeFL]

Great job Sienna! You got this!!! It's the day you become a pilot, everything after is just government paper! Enjoy it, make smart safe decisions, and always remember you can Go Around!

[@angleofattack]

Truth.

[@sauliuskontvainis8064]

Good luck

[@Gaibel2]

Nice...

[@freedomrider30]

A +!!! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎

[@angleofattack]

🥹

[@brandonh5970]

Love this channel. My 15 year old son is learning to fly at a local flight school with his own great instructor. Thanks for sharing her journey! Side question: where can I purchase one of those heading compasses that we see at the top of the cockpit window? I want one for my son’s car when he turns 16.

[@RipVanAllan1983]

Is there any way you could do her solo livestream? That would be awesome!!

[@emjayman12345]

Girl power!!

[@DropkickJames]

👏🏼 Congrats Sienna!!!! I’m curious to know how many flight hours she’s at now. I have my admissions flight tomorrow and I look forward to getting to where she’s at!

[@angleofattack]

I think she was somewhere in the 25 range, but I can't remember.

[@jerryrobertson2347]

Wow!! Does she ever get rattled? Such a cool cuke!

[@boogerwood]

Dear Sienna- you have a responsibility, nay, a duty, to scream “clear” so loudly that Chris loses his mind. To do otherwise is a disservice to him and to us. Signed… us. 😜 Congrats! What a journey. Looking forward to that solo video!

[@paulcollins9197]

She is becoming a professional fast

[@angleofattack]

No problem being a professional at the PPL level.

[@sauliuskontvainis8064]

Well done!!!! How many hours before first solo flight?

[@publicclammer]

Get that girl into a taildragger! She is a star!

[@angleofattack]

That would be great.

[@CRFHONDARIDER100]

May just be how the camera makes it look but do you not use 30 degree flaps on landing ? If not curious why you do not ? Like these videos hope to see the solo soon.

[@angleofattack]

I often use 20 degrees with my students. Haven't found too many pros or cons.

[@tylergoswick4536]

Is the indicator on the dash a glide slope indicator?

[@angleofattack]

It's an Angle of Attack (AOA) indicator.

[@rogue8853]

I know its not necessary and it's expensive but is repainting or touching up the paint in future plans? Love the color but it would really pop and stand out with touch up

[@angleofattack]

I've thought of it. The idea of touching it up isn't really compelling. Some day I'll have it totally repainted and done over. That's what it really needs.

[@rogue8853]

@@angleofattack Yeah, just done right and done with it. Gotta keep the same color tho right? The orange is the Angle of Attack color!

[@publicclammer]

Have you prepared her for how how different the 172 will feel with your (not inconsiderable) weight not in the right seat? 😜

[@angleofattack]

Nope! 🤪

[@rpquattrochi]

“…You’re Number 1 on the Runway ! ….”

[@joelmiller569]

I can't figure out how to use super thanks

[@angleofattack]

Bummer. I found it pretty straight forward.

[@arivicente4912]

👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷

[@joelmiller569]

How many hours is she at for solo?

[@angleofattack]

I'd have to look.

[@johnfitzpatrick2469]

KIAS and keep coordinated✝️

[@lovro1239]

Why does take a whole YEAR from the start to first solo flight in US? In Europe after my 12 hours of flying I did my first solo flight. First flight being on 1st of August and first solo flight on 22nd August last year. I have seen individuals on social media taking 50+ hours to have first solo flight, which is ridiculous to me. EASA PPL(A) minimum flight hours is 45! It is not me being exemplary individual, but in my whole country it is standard after 12 hours or so up to 20 max in worst case scenario to have first solo flight. Can someone explain me this why is this case?

[@df0813]

It's not related to being in the US. As you probably know, it may take a few more hours for a student to demonstrate they can safely operate an aircraft solo. Perhaps it takes a year for the twice-a-month flyer, or 9 hours for the 5 days-a-week flyer. Putting a time limit on flight training is borderline dangerous if you have someone that isn't ready and being pressured to complete the solo. Can I assume you have a "standard" because you learned to fly in a structured training program? Most of us are just learning at our own pace, as the $$ allows and each individual's pace may be different.

[@L1LmeatGang]

I live in the United States and did my solo in one month. It all depends how fast you progress and your access to a plane

[@alihalawa3585]

it’s not a USA thing, it took me a total of 8 weeks to get my ppl at 49 hours. It just depends on how proficient you are.

[@angleofattack]

You're seeing the release timeframe of videos, with a lot of other details missing as well.

[@shemariogillete6958]

Every time you post a video I hope it's her solo😂.

[@angleofattack]

Well now you have to hope no more!

[@soundtecked]

Dose she know people are helping

[@ted1728]

Where is the update??????

[@Bucketnate]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thank YOU

[@johnnysautorepairs5263]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for the $$$

[@rickkennerly2379]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks so much!

[@LeoHalper-c8i]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thank YOU!

[@TheFlying-Cyclist]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna!

[@TheFlying-Cyclist]

@@angleofattack Of course. Happy to help!

[@jonathonhinson2070]

Thanks!

[@angleofattack]

Thanks for supporting Sienna!

[@slabslinger1]

Thanks!