What is considered solo flight?
What is considered solo flight? The term “solo flight” as used in this subpart means that flight time during which a student pilot is the sole occupant of the aircraft or that flight time during which the student performs the duties of a pilot in command of a gas balloon or an airship requiring more than one pilot flight crewmember.
What to expect on first solo flight?
During their first solo flight, the student will fly a few loops in the pattern and gain confidence in his or her own flight abilities – without an instructor coaching them. It's a time when making mistakes is a good thing – student pilots often learn the most when by themselves and making mistakes on their own.
Can student pilots do touch and goes?
So you touch down, and then you go again. Every student pilot learns touch and goes as part of training. It's not a maneuver that happens outside of training–you don't see airline captains doing touch and goes in their 777s. But in training, anything you can do to make things go faster is good.
What comes after solo flight?
For the private pilot candidate, the first solo roughly marks the halfway point of their training. Most of the basic skills have been taught. The rest of the training involves learning specialty takeoffs and landings, night flight, and cross-country flying.
When can you log solo flight time?
Except for a student pilot performing the duties of pilot in command of an airship requiring more than one pilot flight crewmember, a pilot may log as solo flight time only that flight time when the pilot is the sole occupant of the aircraft.