Back in college we used plenty of buckets of water, hoses, as well as a rechargeable water fire extinguisher. We did let the, ahem, victim, empty their pockets, given all the papers and electronics many people carry nowadays.
I've heard of other places cutting a snippet of hair, cream pies in the face, cutting the shirt sleeve, or cutting the tie. I've also been told first float solos were thrown in the water of whatever lake or river they did it on, is this true elsewhere?
Goodbye,
Louis
Did you get soaked after your first solo?
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Personally, I think its all about being stealthy.
I was so in awe that I flew by myself that I actually baught the "you need to take your cell phone out of your pocket so we can take a picture" thing... yeah... I can't even beleive I baught that
Nor did I question the little containers of water on the tabel... duhhhhh
The bucket from the roof is the best one I've ever done. We got a picture of the guy's initial reaction. It's posted on a first solo board at Peninsulair.
"FLY THE AIRPLANE"!
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I got soaked twice as well for Glider, then Power. Someone there told me that pouring water on you is symbolic of washing away the last pieces of the egg from a fledgling bird before it takes flight. I guess we do it AFTER the first flight so we don't ruin the nice upholstery!
Anyone?
Anyone?
It was an old RAF/RCAF tradition except it was not practical in winter so the tradition reverted to cutting off the tie. In the civillian world, nobody wore a tie so the shirttails were cut off.
Another RAF/RCAF tradition was to pee on the tailwheel just prior to a night bombing mission that was changed after the war to symbolize when you have reached the plateau where you are real comfortable in a new airplane type. You all know the feeling when you get when you get about 400-500 hours on type, you can now pee on the nosewheel.
Another RAF/RCAF tradition was to pee on the tailwheel just prior to a night bombing mission that was changed after the war to symbolize when you have reached the plateau where you are real comfortable in a new airplane type. You all know the feeling when you get when you get about 400-500 hours on type, you can now pee on the nosewheel.
The average pilot, despite the somewhat swaggering exterior, is very much capable of such feelings as love, affection, intimacy and caring.
These feelings just don't involve anyone else.
These feelings just don't involve anyone else.
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floatpiperdriver
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In my country we soak the new solo with engine oil...just let the engine it cool a little, drain it and get a good bath of oil from the airplane you soloed.
It's an old tradition.
For the Private Pilot License just a murky water bath and eggs..
It's an old tradition.
For the Private Pilot License just a murky water bath and eggs..
Never ever give up --- up to a point, right?
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Axial Flow
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I used to work for the flight school I soloed at so I knew all the tricks. The day I soloed they played up that because they pretened to come around the corner with a bucket and I started to run the other way but low and behold they had someone right behind me. That was in February and pretty cruel but after a first solo even freezing to death couldnt kill that feeling 
Yup, totally soaked.. But that was fine cause it was summer..
The best one I experienced was when Jim Sorfleet who flew for the snowbirds at the time did his first solo in a glider.. His father (John) was the big boss for our operation and insisted we did the same to him after his first solo in a glider.. And yes, we got him good!!!
The best one I experienced was when Jim Sorfleet who flew for the snowbirds at the time did his first solo in a glider.. His father (John) was the big boss for our operation and insisted we did the same to him after his first solo in a glider.. And yes, we got him good!!!
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i soloed in december and got the usual water treatment a couple of years ago.
When i recently soloed in a glider i didnt know what was about to hit me (literally). theres this tradition at soaring clubs here, its a dance around the solo student who is bent over a chair, his flight instructor holds him down while every pilot slaps his ass as hard as possible. Quite weeeeird and very painful. they argue it will make ur butt more sensitive to updrafts and thermals when ur flying lol.
When i recently soloed in a glider i didnt know what was about to hit me (literally). theres this tradition at soaring clubs here, its a dance around the solo student who is bent over a chair, his flight instructor holds him down while every pilot slaps his ass as hard as possible. Quite weeeeird and very painful. they argue it will make ur butt more sensitive to updrafts and thermals when ur flying lol.
Sounds like a bit of a brokeback club to me...rotateandfly wrote:i soloed in december and got the usual water treatment a couple of years ago.
When i recently soloed in a glider i didnt know what was about to hit me (literally). theres this tradition at soaring clubs here, its a dance around the solo student who is bent over a chair, his flight instructor holds him down while every pilot slaps his ass as hard as possible. Quite weeeeird and very painful. they argue it will make ur butt more sensitive to updrafts and thermals when ur flying lol.
Unless of course the rest of the people are the opposite sex..
hmmmmmmm..... OK... to the glider guy.... I got my glider license about 10 years ago.... nobody did anything to my ass, that's just plain weird... I got the soaked part and all that... I'd look into who started that tradition in your club or see if there's one of those rainbow flags flying around somewhere in the premises... but as Jerry Seinfeld said... "not that there's anything wrong with that!"
Cheers,
DNB
Cheers,
DNB
