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…
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…
Name: Brian O’Keeffe Age: 20 Licence(s): PPL Total Hours: 250 When did you join Waterford Aero Club? I honestly can’t remember exactly when, but it was back when I was 12 or 13 I formally joined the aero club as a junior member. Best flying memory: Thinking back there are so many good flying memories…
Read our newsletter for February with all the humour and great photos you’ve come to expect from Dave Timpson! We’re also delighted to celebrate two first solos this month: Colm Wheelan (a student of George Roche – see the photo on the left!) and Gerry O’Brien (a student of Brian Power) are our newest Captains…
Read the January 2011 Newsletter here. It features Sean Phillips’ first solo in EI-WFD during December. Well done Sean!
Finally the day has come. I was up at 6 am this morning. I had two slices of toast for breakfast (1st mistake). I was at the flight school at around 7 am. I had arranged to meet the examiner at around 10 am. By this time, I was a little hungry, the temperature was creeping up to…
Today was the day that I would complete the course. Started out at 6 am again, up to the flight school at 6.45. I had planned to sit in the Arrow for about 30 minutes, but it was still in maintenance from the cowling coming off in flight the day before. The FAA had been looking…
Good afternoon, Well, today was supposed to be a busy day. Up at 6 am, got the school at 6:30. I was scheduled to fly 4 hours. I got my route to Apopka planned, and we were in the air by 8. We did our navigation to Apopka. Bill diverted me to Skinner, then I got another…
Hi all, Logged 2.0 hours today, bringing my total up to 21 hours. I arrived at the flight school around 10.30. I was due to fly at 12, so Bill said we would go when I was ready and get in the air a little early. I also got a reply from the CAA today about…