YYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!

[gibbo_335]

HEY congrats guys  , that's awesome!!!!!!!  ...pity about the  and strippers though 

[want2fly]

HEY congrats guys  , that's awesome!!!!!!!  ...pity about the  and strippers though 

All you have to do is wait a few years, then it will be fine.

[PiperGirl]

Hey Congrats to both of you!    You never forget your first solo

[Fabo]

Now how that comes? A picture and a handshake? Thats all? Wow, never wonder so little boys want to become piltos these days!

(told the Cessna pack about this custom, PiperGirl? )

[AirtransRecon]

Man I remember at an old port back in Ky an entire wall covered with shirt backs from pilots first solo's. Shame it's vanishing.

Someone find these two guys and cut their shirts off, points if you do it while they're not looking.

KW

[PiperGirl]

A few of the flight instructors still try to keep the tradition alive, but the powers that be at our airport think it's "In Very Bad Taste" since it destroys someone's shirt. So they get really mad at any flight instructor that does that... Still happens on the secret though! Whatever! It was a great tradition

[Mike]

what's wrong with the world??

when I did my sailplane solo, I got spanked (Austrian tradition with the objective of the new solo pilot not being able to sit for the rest of the day)
when I started flying fixed wing, they cut off my tie
in the US they cut apart my shirt after my solo . . .

what happened with all these "traditions ??

a picture next to the plane?  . . . although part of the deal . . . it shouldn't be the only thing! 

btw!

CONGRATS !!!! 
woot woot  . . . PARTY !!!

[Frank N. O.]

Fighter pilots in Denmark (or rather pilots from Denmark, trained in USA) gets either a tub of water in the face, or like the crown prince of Denmark a flight in a pool of water (it was filmed and shown on tv, it was an inflateable kiddie-pool lol). With all due respect, I'd just be happy that I did the solo and got the license, sorry to be a spoil-sport.

For obvious reasons I have no idea what happends for GA pilots in Denmark.

Frank

[Franz]

when I did my sailplane solo, I got spanked (Austrian tradition with the objective of the new solo pilot not being able to sit for the rest of the day)

We (still) have that tradition here in Germany, but its rather for calibrating the solo pilots most important instrument for detecting thermals and to enable him to endure long flights in his / her glider. 
And, of course do not forget some water (douse) and a bouquet of nettels and thistels pressed firmly into the hand of the pilot, probably to give him / her a better feel for the stick (btw: I still got mine, allthough my solo was 5 years -2 weeks ago . . . )

I also head about that cutting shirts thing, which seems to be especially popular with female students and cutting the front part of the shirt . . .(stripper)

And most important of all, you do not have to worry about paying for beer (unless you just soloed, but then you won't mind, at least I didn't)

Red: Is it just me or is there some kind of pattern (not the traffic one)

[Mike]

just saw this thread (again)

HA HA!!!   

I LOVE how you put "2 and 2" together there, Franz! Good work!


 

[Gulfstream Driver]

Fighter pilots in Denmark (or rather pilots from Denmark, trained in USA) gets either a tub of water in the face, or like the crown prince of Denmark a flight in a pool of water (it was filmed and shown on tv, it was an inflateable kiddie-pool lol). With all due respect, I'd just be happy that I did the solo and got the license, sorry to be a spoil-sport.

For obvious reasons I have no idea what happends for GA pilots in Denmark.

Frank

I always warn my students to start wearing old shirts they don't care about when they get close to soloing.  I don't tell them when they're going to solo, just that they're getting close.  Or, they can bring in a t-shirt separately and I'll cut it up.  That way, there are no hard feelings, but the tradition can live on.

[AirScorp]

To tell you the truth, I'd rather have my best t-shirt ruined. I'm gonna keep it as a trophy I'm thinking that it can't cost more than an hour lesson anyway.

You can always ask them what they think of the tradition early on. Or is the surprise factor also in the tradition?

[gibbo_335]

Weeeeeeelllllllllllllllllllllll I think i have said this before here, but,  I'm sssssssoooooooooo glad they didn;t cut my shirt off on my 1st solo, as i had my favorite Eric Clapton tour shirt on that day  kinda would have put a damper on it all 

[airtac]

Fighter pilots in Denmark (or rather pilots from Denmark, trained in USA) gets either a tub of water in the face, or like the crown prince of Denmark a flight in a pool of water (it was filmed and shown on tv, it was an inflateable kiddie-pool lol). With all due respect, I'd just be happy that I did the solo and got the license, sorry to be a spoil-sport.

For obvious reasons I have no idea what happends for GA pilots in Denmark.

Frank

I always warn my students to start wearing old shirts they don't care about when they get close to soloing.  I don't tell them when they're going to solo, just that they're getting close.  Or, they can bring in a t-shirt separately and I'll cut it up.  That way, there are no hard feelings, but the tradition can live on.

I concur about tradition living on----some Jackass threw away all the shirt tails at the Cloverdale airport when they repainted but until then it was fun to look at them and recall the memories

[Frank N. O.]

I think I prefer the idea of a cut shurt than a drop in the drink so to speak (the danish prince was thrown into a kiddie-pool, another documentary on danish fighterpilots in USA showed just a bucket of water over the face though). I especially like it if I can use a spare t-shirt since after a first flight then I think that T-shirt would be a bit sweaty and therefore writting probably wouldn't last very well.

Frank