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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 9:32 am
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SeattleDavid
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Just look (and feel) like you've done it before

Depending on your personality this may or may not be challenging, but I would simply advise to to look and feel like you've flown alone 100 times before, which you have (in effect - apart from the alone bit:-)

Don't keep telling people its your first solo flight; don't keep telling yourself this!

Then relax, and follow all the other excellent advice here about being organized, etc etc.

My first flight was also my first solo flight - when I was 25, from Gatwick-Minneapolis-San Francisco - Philadelphia - Gatwick. Looking back 25 years, I'm more surprised at how much of San Francisco I explored alone and at all hours, than by the fact that I navigated immigration and Minneapolis airport.
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