Jos,
You are a fantastic guy and I am, as so many others of the forum, looking
forward to meet you somewhere. With the Europa, Europa becomes a small
country you know.
Happy landings.
Karel Vranken.
----- Original Message -----
From: "josok" <josok-e@ukolo.fi>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 4:16 PM
Subject: Europa-List: First solo
>
> 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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