Geoff's First Solo - Jabiru J-170 

Congrats on the solo. What a freedom you have now!

Fantastic video and well done. I have been learning to fly up here in Darwin and the instructor just got a J170. I flew it for the first time today. The old plane unfortunately got written off by a pilot on his first solo, landed nose wheel first.

Congratulations Geoff. Nice light touch on the controls you have there. That's something I need to work on. I passed my test flight in a Jabiru 160 last weekend, and got the paperwork yesterday. The airfield I fly from in Gippsland Victoria has a RH circuit direction on 09 as well, but no grumpy neighbours on upwind. Cheers.

Firstly, congratulation on this milestone flight Geoff. As they say, it's always appreciated if you bring the aircraft back in a condition that it can be used again. For someone that lives in the city of Sydney seeing all that open space, it's difficult to believe that someone would complain of the aircraft noise a little Jabiru makes. However circuit training will become a little less frequent as time rolls by. Good luck with the rest of your training. I note that this flight was about 9mths ago, so possibly you have your RAA certificate by now.