This flight training diary should be useful for any student pilot who are considering a career in commercial aviation. Many people chose to complete sections, or all, of their training overseas and it takes significant research to decide on a flight school. Andrew Power is now a Captain at Cityjet and holds a TRI qualification as well as SEP and FI ratings.
Well, after looking at other people’s blogs about their training, I’ve decided to set up a blog of my own to account for the time I am about to spend at Euro American School of Aviation to complete my JAA Commercial Pilots Licence. So its Wednesday, September 22nd and so far I’ve got my M1…
DetailsWoke up early this morning to a rainy Florida! Hopefully not for long. I’m at House 7 in Sugar Creek, just waiting to be picked up by the school for my first day. Had some bad weather on the flight yesterday, took a little longer than I thought! I got the DOTS Shuttle from Daytona…
DetailsWell, Americans are really into their weather. They have a “storm” on the way with winds up to 45 mph. It’s all over the news every day and there’s nothing else on TV. You would think its the end of the world the way it comes across. So I woke up at 7 am,…
DetailsHi all, Another successful day today. I logged 1.5 hours, so that brings me up to 3. The weather was bad up to around 1 pm so we didn’t get in the air until 1.30. We did lots in the hour and a half. We took off, climbed to 3500 ft around 3 miles off the…
DetailsHi All, Due to fly at 11 am this morning but the FAA turned up at school for an inspection so that delayed us 40 minutes while Bill went through everything. We got in the air for 11.50 am and started by climbing out to the northeast of the field, did some more steep turns, did…
DetailsHi everyone, I got up early this morning and went to the flight school and went solo in the Warrior. It gave me a little bit of confidence back as I have not been solo here for 3 years. There was 6 in the circuit – the expression used in Waterford would be “sure boy it was like Heathrow”.…
DetailsHi everyone, A bit of a disappointing 2 days. The instructor yesterday was sick so I didn’t get to fly. This had a knock-on effect for today, therefore I only did a 1.5 hour flight. I was with a new instructor called Elizabeth. She was instructing PPLs when I was here last in November, and since then she now does CPL instruction…
DetailsHello, Very good day today. I logged 3.2 hours, bringing my total up to 8 hours. I was up at 8 am, arrived at the flight school at 9. We had a long brief this morning on how to use the JAA Navigation Method with Elizabeth. It made a lot of sense as I didn’t…
DetailsHi All, Another good day today. logged 3 hours 12 minutes, bringing my total up to 11 hours. My first flight was with Elizabeth and we went to a small private airport called Reynolds. The initial navigation went great, arrived exactly on the dot. So then she gave me a diversion and I got…
DetailsHi again, Day 9 and in total I’ve logged 13.6 hours. The day started FREEZING at 6 am. I was up and got to the flight school around 6.30. Aircraft preflighted and we were on our way to Mid Florida (it’s an airport, not just the middle of Florida). Route started out great, on track most…
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