Part of channel(s): Liveleakers (promoted)As above. A few pics to show you guys why I love flying in switzerland! There's also a video of my first solo flight with birdstrike below. More pics and videos of flying in the alps will come as soon as the weather gets better in spring.
Video description:
This is my first video on LL. Don't expect crash action! It might be boring for those of you who aren't interested in aviation. Birdstrike at 0:12
The video was taken with a GoPro HD on my first flight without the flight instructor sitting next to me.
As you can see at 0:12, I've managet it to hit a pretty big bird (It was bigger than a crow. Can't tell what it was though...) on my first solo flight. As I saw the bird it was too late to avoid it already and heavy control inputs are dangerous anyway at low speeds. Luckily, the demage was minor. Blood, feathers and a few dents and cracks on the right hand landing gear covers - nothing duct tape couldn't fix.
Happy landings to all pilots out there!
By: Eddie_V_R
In: Other Items from Liveleakers
Tags: Switzerland, flying, robin dr400, lycoming, ppl, aviation, vfr, pilot, alps, snow, mountains, landing, birdstrike, first solo, flight, instructor
Location: Grenchen, Solothurn, Switzerland (load item map)
Marked as: approved, featured
Views: 31710 | Comments: 189 | Votes: 17 | Favorites: 2 | Shared: 91 | Updates: 0 | Times used in channels: 2
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Evidently that was the bird's first flight too.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByUSA1 (3680.74) 
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@USA1,and its last :O)
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bymoonshin (353.00) 
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@moonshin
Talk about synchronicity.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByUSA1 (3680.74) 
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@USA1 wrong, it was its last
Posted Dec-26-2012 Byplymouthrock (213.54) 
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Wrong, prove it wasn't its first! I suspect it was a dodo bird on its maiden flight.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByUSA1 (3680.74) 
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Thank you for sharing! Truly amazing views & congratulations on your first solo!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByCarguyinok (409.90) 
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@Carguyinok You are welcome and thanks! Sharing it with others makes flying even more exciting I think. There's enough evil in this world so let's share the good stuff!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByEddie_V_R (43.00) 
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Good job, glad you kept calm and landed ok.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByPhuckemall (29.70) 
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Welcome newbie!
Thumbs up.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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@FredFarkel Thank you..would thumb you up too but i haven't worked out how yet, or how to add a moving gif to my
profile pic..as you say...'Newbie' lol
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByPhuckemall (29.70) 
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@Phuckemall
I've tried many times to get a picture posted... I'm just too old for this shit.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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@FredFarkel Join the club! :)
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByPhuckemall (29.70) 
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What an ugly country Switzerland is, no vast empty deserts with muslims shouting snackbars and burning rubble cities. How do they keep their sanity with all those hiddeous snow capped mountains and vast forests, and peaceful villages?
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFlREF0X (389.30) 
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Or Americans shooting up their schools, Cinemas and Firemen.
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByBannedman (182.50) 
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@damnjet
Trust me. It's no big deal, but having said that - it is not for your random stupid female either. You do need to have a bunch of common sense and just know how shit works.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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@GammaZetaTau
My first solo was at age 15 at a busy airport near Los Angeles. The smog was so bad that sometimes it was hard to find the place. No such thing as GPS back then. Something called a VORTEC.
I hated that shit but WTF - I did it. I had my pilot license before my driver license.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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@damnjet For me it wasn't scary and it sure would be wrong to go for the first solo flight if you are scared. As GammaZetaTau said: The first solo usually contains a few circuits around the airport with touch and go full stops and taxi back to holding point for another departure. During instruction flights, you make an awfull lot of circuitd so it's nothing new. Also, ther controller here in Grenchen knows if someone has his first solo and gives instructions slow and clearly. It was great fun!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByEddie_V_R (43.00) 
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Way to maintain your composure!
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bystewie2gooie (28.98) 
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Well done! You kept your composure and landed nicely. More impressive is that you did so on your first solo.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByRickBond (6559.00) 
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@RickBond Thanks mate! I could do so not least because I have a very good flight instructor who let me do the landings from the beginning of training.
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByEddie_V_R (43.00) 
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Mine had nerves of steel. During emergency practice landings I could hear the weeds hitting the landing gear when he finally told me to "go around". I thought for sure he was actually going to make me land the plane in a vacant field...
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByRickBond (6559.00) 
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Wow, sounds awesome! I would have been scared a bit though... But from this kind of instructors you learn the most. Mine didn't let me go that low during emergency training but he never lost his nerves during my first landings. He used to take his hands completely away from the controls and even if he saw that it's going to be a hard touch down he didn't intervene.
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByEddie_V_R (43.00) 
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Bird strikes, and on your first solo... BRAVO!
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bymrgod2u (1088.90) 
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Voted.
Thanks for the beautiful photos and cool video. Happy flying, dude. :-)
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByPanthera (115.94) 
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@Panthera You are welcome. Thanks man!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByEddie_V_R (43.00) 
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awesome! Congrats on your first flight, very envious! My time is coming soon though :D
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bydaddyroo5 (91.04) 
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We need to regulate birds. They have no place in the sky.
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bynothinbutthetruth (92.10) 
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Congrats on first flight! I always wanted to do that, never had the time or money. Good job - can't help the bird strike though!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByHuskyTrail2019 (207.20) 
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@HuskyTrail2019
Here's an idea. Go take 5-10 hours of flight instruction. Go ahead. DO IT.
Trust me. You will get it out of your system and be able to say that you did it.
Those small planes make no sense. By the time you jack around on both ends you could have driven there faster.
Have fun!! DO IT. Life is too GOTDAMN short. Tell your GOTDAMN wife that it is something you need to do.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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Jesus.
NICE LANDING BUDDY!!
My first ten landings bent the gear every time!!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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@FredFarkel Thanks buddy! I had plenty of runway left so a long flare with smooth touchdown wasn't that difficult!
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByEddie_V_R (43.00) 
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Yeah it sucked when that silly stall warning horn would go off when I was still ten feet off above the runway...
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByFredFarkel (512.76) 
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No doubt the most exciting event in Switzerland of that day.
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bydevries (374.90) 
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@devries A cloud of swiss cheese farts made it's way to another town of cheese farts which mixed and fused to form a super fart cloud which knocked out a chinese satellite. Was a close call for nuclear war. I'd say that was a bigger story that day.
Posted Dec-26-2012 ByMinnesota (103.10) 
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@devries Yeah, the rest of us were counting our money. Being the richest country in the world sucks.
Posted Dec-26-2012 Bysee-peas-in-my-turd (57.40) 
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It was quite dusky, and the airfield was totally empty when I did my first solo. My instructor was with me doing circuits of the airfield and when we landed he said, 'take care of her,' and he got out. I was sitting there shitting myself thinking he was kidding, but sure enough, a few minutes later I was at 1000 feet on my own. I was comming in for my first solo landing. I had it lined up nicely, and when I was about fifty feet from the tarmac a deer ran in front of me. I pulled her up, and whac More..
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByBigCK (207.70) 
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@BigCK Nice one, glad you both made it haha
Posted Dec-27-2012 ByJohnoc (80.80) 
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@BigCK I realy dont understand some of the people who view LL. Your tale of a near miss is interesting yet 2 dicks give it the thumb down??..I would imagine hitting a big deer would be a real fucked up day for you
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