{"id":660,"date":"2012-08-04T07:17:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T06:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/?p=660"},"modified":"2012-08-02T08:26:27","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T07:26:27","slug":"cessna-172-duel-vs-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Cessna 172 : Duel vs Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"

In all the excitement, I clearly forgot to document any differences between the C172 when flown with\/without an instructor<\/p>\n

I’ve read elsewhere that the C152, being only a two seater plane, really has a marked difference without the extra weight of an instructor.\u00a0\u00a0 So the intent had always been to try and make a mental note of any differences in the C172 on my first solo.<\/p>\n

……..clearly there aren’t any, or none that made me actively think “God that feels different.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em> Otherwise I’d like to think I’d have written about them after that first momentous flight \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Looking back at my notes from first solo<\/a>, the plane rotated and was airborne exactly when it usually is when I fly with an instructor. \u00a0 So I’m concluding that being a 4 seater it has plenty of power to spare, making the effect of a single passenger getting out unnoticeable (Except the voice in your head, that usually reminds you when you’re doing stuff wrong, goes silent……)<\/em><\/p>\n

Flight Instructors have told tales of the C152 being so under powered that on a very windy day they are susceptible to getting ‘stuck’ and being unable to exit grass runways.\u00a0 It’s a tale from a reliable source, so I’m open to believing it – I think it was this underpowered view that made the club get C172’s.<\/p>\n

There is a price tag attached to flying a C172.\u00a0\u00a0 In my area it’s ball park \u00a350\/hour cheaper in a C152.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the course of the training it’s going to save you \u00a32-2.5k, there or there abouts…….I’m not sure you could go back after flying a C172 though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In all the excitement, I clearly forgot to document any differences between the C172 when flown with\/without an instructor I’ve read elsewhere that the C152, being only a two seater plane, really has a marked difference without the extra weight of an instructor.\u00a0\u00a0 So the intent had always been to try and make a mental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":666,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}