R44 First Solo

Thanks to www.cowansim.com without your R66 Microsoft flight simulator 2020, I wouldn't have been able to hover on the first lesson (at night!). You saved me at least $6,000 during real life training. First solo, about 28 hrs in the R44, solo not required by 141 commercial add-on syllabus, just did it for fun. It was HOT day. I wear this anti-flame shirt and pants that make it really hot in the cockpit, you will probably be hearing my breathing/hot sighing. Sorry about that. I don't talk when I fly, I just did it for the purposes of debriefing with instructor/educational. I know my tail is not in VRS, it's just to verbalize to my instructor I'm thinking where the wind is coming from. I said 700 for VRS, I know it's 30/300. School requires pilot to verbalize "over pavement, over grass, etc" to anticipate hover performance loss. When my instructor is aboard, I do things a lot faster than the video, I purposefully slowed things extremely down since I was solo. The takeoff profile and pattern are mandatory per letter of agreement with KTIX tower. For taking off when runway 9 ops are in effect, you enter a hover then zig zag a little to overfly the taxiway. First pattern, a little high and a little fast. Last touch down a little rough. We don't park in the middle of the circle as to allow the next student to be able to walk around the tail and not have to go on the ditch to inspect tail. Flapping paper checklist is annoying, I left my laminated one at home. 0:00 - 0:20 - ATIS 0:23 - 0:57 - Before Start 0:57 - 1:58 - Starting Engine Checklist 2:00 - 5:18 - Before Pick Up Checklist 5:20 - 6:16 - Pick Up to Hover / Pedal turns 6:46 - 7:15 - ATC call + Taxi to Spot 1 8:41 - 9:26 - Left Pedal turns + Area Check 10:01 - 13:49 - First Pattern 14:20 - 18:06 - Second Pattern 18:07 - 22:07 - Third Pattern 22:09 - 24:13 - Air Taxi back to parking 24:17 - 26:40 - Shutdown Checklist 26:42 - 27:05 - Prayer 27:05 - 27:33 - Rotor Brake 28:09 - 28:27 Bible verses Check out the following missionary aviation agencies: https://maf.org/ https://www.helimission.org/en