I went to the wrong working area on my first solo. About 10 minutes into flying circles around area 7, the nice ATC guy calls out "Ranger XXX Solo, you claimed area 8 and I am holding you solid in area 7, do you want that area or do you want both of them?"
A moment of terror shot through me thinking that I was going to have a mid-air, then I thought some IP would hear it and I would pink-sheet my solo. I just replied that I would keep 7, and he said "roger that".
Luckily, my fam partner took all of the attention for the day on his solo. He was flying early in the day, and he had to be waved off moments before landing gear up by an IP who was sitting at the hold short (actually, our on-wing who was instructing some other stud that day). He waved off about 2 feet before chewing up concrete with prop. His ass was not spared the same positive fate, and neither did the RDO. All of those guys got very stern talkings to.
On my first PR solo, I remembered the question that ATC asked, and requested both areas 7&8. They gave them to me, and I had some extra sky to fool around in.
A moment of terror shot through me thinking that I was going to have a mid-air, then I thought some IP would hear it and I would pink-sheet my solo. I just replied that I would keep 7, and he said "roger that".
Luckily, my fam partner took all of the attention for the day on his solo. He was flying early in the day, and he had to be waved off moments before landing gear up by an IP who was sitting at the hold short (actually, our on-wing who was instructing some other stud that day). He waved off about 2 feet before chewing up concrete with prop. His ass was not spared the same positive fate, and neither did the RDO. All of those guys got very stern talkings to.
On my first PR solo, I remembered the question that ATC asked, and requested both areas 7&8. They gave them to me, and I had some extra sky to fool around in.