Hi Folks,
Finally, some 4 years after the decision was taken to built my Europa and will
learn to fly, i had my first solo in my own plane :-)
End of the worries, i could built it, i could learn to fly, i can fly the mono.
It went great, as a matter of fact so good, that i will never be able to improve
these these take-off and landings. As expected, climb rate and speed and landing
characteristics are better as with the instructor on board. My thanks go
to him, Pentti Niemi who is absolutely the best instructor i have met, Ivan
Shaw,
who was the test pilot and instructor for Pentti for 20 minutes :-)It has
been a very interesting period, and if somebody is interested in a write up of
my personal experiences with the mono, i will post it here. Once the rest of
the paperwork is ready, the transponder finally arrives and is installed, and
there is still some good weather somewhere, i will fly out and hopefully meet
many of you. Looking forward to the next period of this phantastic adventuere!
Regards,
Jos Okhuijsen
Visit - www.EuropaOwners.org
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