Now that I'm thinking my first flight may be less than a year away, I'm starting to get really nervous about it. However, I'd *really* like to do it myself. I'll have about 200 hrs by then, most in the Katana, but more recently a bunch in the 172. I'd really mastered the Katana, and every landing was a greaser, but now I'm really finding it tough getting a handle on landing the 172 smoothly. This has made me nervous about what the first flight in my -9A will be like. I will probably get some "transition training", but I wonder will this be enough.
Questions:
1) how many other low-time (~200hrs) pilots out there have done the first flight in a -9A themselves? Am I being foolish?
2) compared to a Katana or C172, how hard/easy is it to land the -9A safely? How different is it from those aircraft, and how much getting-used-to does it take to do well?
Questions:
1) how many other low-time (~200hrs) pilots out there have done the first flight in a -9A themselves? Am I being foolish?
2) compared to a Katana or C172, how hard/easy is it to land the -9A safely? How different is it from those aircraft, and how much getting-used-to does it take to do well?