Chapter III — First Solo · Flightlog

Wednesday, 25 June 2025 · 17:18

The check ride

🇦🇹 LOAV · Bad Vöslau — local flight

with instructorAquila A211OE-AKWSiess / P.

Blick voeslau ost · Karl Gruber, CC BY-SA 3.0 — Wikimedia Commons

Wednesday, 17:18, two landings in nine minutes of flight time. A very short flight with an instructor.

You know this kind of flight: the instructor does not say much, watches two landings, and then you taxi to the side, the right-hand seat empties, and the sentence falls that you have been working towards for weeks.

The GPS track of this entry is shared with the neighbouring flight — it shows the whole session, not just this leg.

Ground track from the GPS recording, coloured by altitude · drag to pan, scroll to zoom

Duration9 min

Max. altitude1,715 ft

Landings2

Block17:18–17:32

Flown overBaden bei Wien

Wednesday, 25 June 2025 · 17:32

First Solo

🇦🇹 LOAV · Bad Vöslau — local flight

★ First Solosolo flightAquila A211OE-AKW▶ Video

OE-AKW · Aquila A211G MFU Pilotenclub — used with kind permission

Block off 17:32. Role: PIC. Crew: Siess. No second name.

The first solo flight. Three landings, 13 minutes in the air, 1,715 ft at most. On paper the least spectacular entry in weeks — and the one you never forget as long as you live.

Without the second seat occupied the Aquila climbs noticeably better. That is the moment you notice how much an instructor actually weighs, and at the same time how empty the right-hand seat can be.

Eighteen days after Progress Check B, 27 flights and 111 days after the introductory flight. Block on 17:55. After this, everything is different.

The GPS track of this entry is shared with the neighbouring flight — it shows the whole session, not just this leg.

Video of this flight@Fluggeschichten

First Solo of my PPL training (A211 LOAV)

Ground track from the GPS recording, coloured by altitude · drag to pan, scroll to zoom

Duration13 min

Max. altitude1,715 ft

Landings3

Block17:32–17:55

Flown overBaden bei Wien