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Woke up early this morning! It was bad as I wasn’t flying until 16:30, so I had breakfast and sat outside in the sunshine. It was 22 Celsius at 9 am here. I went over my procedures and nav methods. I went and had another look at the airshow today. Parking was chaos, I had…
Whoa! This blog is hard work! But it keeps me entertained 🙂 Bad start to the day: the part didn’t arrive until 12, and there was a CPL skills test already booked in the aircraft so that had priority. We didn’t get going until about 6 pm. We were suppose to go at 3! …
First flight in the Arrow today – what a nice airplane! Very heavy and much more stable than the Cadet. Bill briefed me on the engine, and we were on our way. A few little differences, but I have practiced them all before in the Seminole. Stuff like gear and propellers were suddenly much more…
Hi 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…
Hi 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…
Hi 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…
Hi 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”.…
Hi 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…
Hi 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…
Well, 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,…