Today I learned of the joys of the weather here in the UK. When I arrived at the school today visibility was just 3km the minimum for visual flight is 5km which basically means that we was grounded due to low visibility. Luckily there was a slot tomorrow where we will try again to get the first lesson of the PPL out of the way.
I used the time to speak to my instructor and find out a bit more about what I am signing myself up for.
We took a tour of the plane that we was scheduled to use (above) and went through the instruments and controls. I even found out that we may be flying to France at some point!
I saw the Cessna 172 that we flew on my trail lesson and found out that the school has 10 planes in total. The only other customer at the school this morning looked around 14 and with me being 30 I suddenly started to feel pretty old. The good news is my instructor told me his last few students had completed the course in 45 hours which from a money point of view would be ideal for me.
I plan to get in a few hours a week because I want to spend the majority of 2016 getting through my ATPL exams. The distance learning course I will use says that the exams will take a whooping 9 months! With ground school being 4 days per module and there being 3 modules in total I need to get it all out the way in 2o16 so I can do hour building early in 2017. However I do not want to get ahead of myself and start thinking about the next step when this one has hardly started.
Lets hope the weather tomorrow will allow me to start my aviation career!
