It was third time lucky for a trainee pilot who landed a plane at Jandakot airport on Saturday. The trainee pilot had only had three lessons when his instructor fell unconscious. Mr Sylvester told air traffic control “ I’m trying to keep him up but he keeps falling down”, when asked by air traffic control if he knew how to operate the plan Mr Sylvester replied “ This is my third lesson”. The operator then told him “We’re tracking where you are at the moment”. He went on to say "You're doing a really great job. I know this is really stressful. But you're going to do an amazing job and we're going to help you get down to the ground, OK?" The controller then talked the trainee pilot down which took over 50 minutes. The owner of the flying school Chuck Mc Elwee said "This could have gone way, way bad," he said. "But everything worked out right, and it worked right, mostly because of the cooperation of the tower, the fact that he was a student — that he was dedicated and he knew what he was doing and he pulled it off — and that my flight instructor went up to the tower and they all worked together." Mr McElwee praised Mr Sylvester’s wife by saying “ She was a rock, let me tell you, she held it together all the way along the line”. Mr Sylvester has received his first flying solo certificate even though this was more than likely not the way he expected to earn it.