My Solo Cross-Country Flight 1 of 11

This is video 1 of 11 of my entire 2.5 hour solo cross-country flight. I added the radio communications to the video so you arn't just listening to the sound of the propeller the whole time lol. I went from KBVI to KAXQ to KHZY and then back to KBVI. I stopped and refueled at KHZY. My tail number was N629DC and I was flying a Diamond DA-20.

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Travel & Events

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• solo cross-country
• flight
• headcam
• take-offs
• landings
• kbvi
• aces aviation
• diamond da-20

[elijah12453]

dude just a little advice wen u mount a head cam just make sure its not down to far. just saying man

[Xiupan]

@elijah12453 I angled the camera downwards on purpose. I wanted to show what I was doing with my hands.

[sabrpilot]

Only advice I can give is that you accelerate a little slower, more smoothly....as you start to throttle-up, countdown from 5-1, you will of course be at full throttle when you reach 1 after that, I would reccomend that you keep your hand on the throttle throughout your climb-out. Hope this helps.

[elijah12453]

@elijah12453 oh ok nothing big



[Xiupan]

@shaindaman13 Nah man, it's not about doing better or worse than someone else. You do the solo when you yourself feel you are ready to do so. Don't force it and don't let anyone else force you to solo. As long as you feel confident and ready to do so, you let your CFI know.

[shaindaman13]

@Xiupan Well, for what it's worth I hope I do as well as you when I solo. My CFI has had to remind me about keeping my right hand on the throttle too. It's easy to forget when you're pre-occupied with take-off and climbing. I train in a Diamond just like this one.

[Xiupan]

@danedamane1 I don't have the recorder anymore to look up what the model number is, but I remember it's a digital recorder, by Sony. It went for about $90 on Amazon when I bought it. There are cheaper models available that have less space and features though.

[danedamane1]

@Xiupan what model voice recorder do you use?

[Xiupan]

@Ghost31096 Let's see, if I remember right, headsets have two plugs, one to hear and one to send, I think? I think I only plugged the recorder into the receive side. So the recorder was capturing my voice thru the aircraft, not directly as a microphone.

[Ghost31096]

@Xiupan wow im surprised because if you do that most of the time the electric current to power a 600ohm aviation headset will make the recording horrible or the quality to the pilot not so good. Do you plug it into the passenger comms?

[Xiupan]

@Ghost31096 I used a splitter cable from Radio Shack. I forget the measurements of the outlet size though, sorry :/ It's whatever can fit around a headset jack for aircraft.