My First Flight-Personal Narrative

My day began as any usual day would. Wake up, eat breakfast, brush teeth, and make myself presentable and go to school. But today was special. I had a flight lesson, not just any flight lesson but my first solo flight. After months of training and practicing, the day was finally here. My stomach churned with nervousness as the day trudged on. Horrible thoughts circled through my head. “What if the engine fails?” “What if I get a fuel leak?” “What if the wing disconnects from the plane and I go careening into the ground at 140 knots?” and the scary part is these are all realistic thoughts. Except maybe that last one… maybe. As these thoughts kept going through my head the day went on. Until 4:30pm. The drive there went on for a long time but I had some music for my mind to focus on. …show more content…
My trainer, Ethan, stood behind the counter talking to a co-worker. He is a taller guy and very young for how experienced he was. I greeted him and talked to him about the plane and the flight plan as I checked the weather and weight and balance of the airplane. After all the checks finished up I walked out of the building to the plane for its pre-flight check. I got up on the wing and opened the door. Flipped on the master switch along with the landing lights, navigation lights, strobe lights and pitot heater. I got back out and checked everything I had turned on worked and got back in and shut it off. I then dropped the flaps and did the main check. Fuel tanks, wings oil, brakes, tires, and flight surfaces. I thought about every little way each one could go wrong while I checked