A diary written by Andrew Power of his MEIR
Hello all, Glad to see the blog views have managed to hit 420 so quick! I will have to stop hitting refresh over and over. Well, today was much better. We briefed we would go to Jerez today, so we completed the Jerez 1C Standard Instrument Departure. Wind was about 20 knots off the runway,…
Good evening all, I managed to clock up a grand total of 5 hours in the sim today. The quality of my flying seems do go down after the third hour, so I only have 3 hours tomorrow. The walk to the school was a killer, it was 35 Celsius and in mid afternoon, the sun is pointing…
Hi all, After four days off, I was finally ready to get back in the sim this morning. Arrived at the school at 12:00 for my first session. The first was only going to be two hours, instead of the usual three. We started off with the checklist, calling Malaga for start and clearance. We were allocated…
Good evening all, Not much to say, but I’m wrecked after a second 3 hour session. We did the entire procedure today starting on the ramp in Malaga, getting start, clearance, taxi for the Vibas 1A SID. After MGA VOR we were cleared direct to AMR, which is the Almeria VOR. Its a 100 mile trip…
Hello everyone, Another 30 degree day here today with not a single cloud. Scheduled to fly at 1 o’clock. Arrived at the school at 12:30 to meet Jeronimo and got the brief that we would be starting to fly a standard instrument departure and how to brief, fly and communicate with ATC. Started up the…
Hello from sunny Spain! All I’m hearing is how miserable the weather is at home! Its 33 Celsius today and I’m stuck in the sim. Scheduled to start at 3 today, but arrived at 2.30 as per the schools policy. We had a pre-flight brief about what the flight would involve. I was shown the 3 holding…
Evening all, Glad to see people are visiting the blog. It was a late start this evening. Scheduled for the simulator at 16:30. Arrived at the school to meet with my instructor Jeronimo, who had lived in Ireland for a while. I had already met him before on a previous sim session with another student.…
Early start this morning. I arrived at the school at 08:30 to meet with the Instructor. I met with Gloria, who will be my sim instructor and Arturo who will be the instructor in the aircraft. Arturo did 3 hours of ground school with us on the Instrument Rating, Performance, Weight & Balance and all that…
Well, I thought I’d post another blog, after the success of my previous blog for my JAA CPL which had over 2500 views. So, It was an early start, 3 am Irish time on the road to Cork Airport. Just before I got to the Airport I got pulled over by the Police. Just…