Okay, I’ve done everything I can as a flight instructor to make my student safe and capable of handling a takeoff and landing, and a few touch-and-go’s, and now he’s ready for his first solo (I had a few female students, but they were mostly guys). Question is: am I ready for the anxiety that always accompanies a student solo? No. This is about his 14th hour in the cockpit (average time to solo), and he doesn’t even know I’m fixing to solo him, so he shows no signs of any anxiety, which is a good thing. Wish I could say the ...