Video of 14 yr old kid first solo ...

[iWantWings]

(Sorry if this is a duplicate post)

... in a Schweizer 2-33.

I really enjoyed watching this. She humms a melody while flying and does a forward-slip on final - on her first solo, on her 14th birthday

(the same youtube video page has a link to a video of her learning spins with an instructor on board a few years before her solo)

I know nothing about gliders and I do not know who the youg girl is, but I think she did a great job. Congrats to her and her parents. This is way cool.

 

[Jim Logajan]

Looked like she was trying to work some lift.

As I recall, for lighter pilots one may need to add ballast in the nose of a 2-33. Don't have the W&B info handy, so it might only be needed to reduce stick force.

And that singing - who does she think she is - John Wayne in The High and the Mighty?
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