Following on from my checkout last week I decided to do Hour Building: Circuits at Blackbushe. The real reason for doing circuits was I was at my revision week in Bristol all week and I didn’t have any time to plan a route. The other issue I was suffering from was that I never had … Read more
Due to the issues at Cranfield and the cost of hiring there I have been looking around for a new place to fly. With this in mind, yesterday I had a checkout with Blackbushe Flying Group. I got to the club and met both my instructor and the owner Dan who are both very nice … Read more
With the closures at Cranfield over the next few months I needed somewhere to fly in the meantime at weekends, so I decided to have a checkout flight at Elstree with MAK Aviation. Elstree is a really strange airfield which is surrounded by airspace. Luton to the north, Stansted to the east, London city to … Read more
Yesterday I went back to the airfield for Hour Building: Cranfield – Grafham water – Sywell – Cranfield. I took my friend up for the first time on what is quickly becoming my go to local flight route for people on their first flight. From Cranfield I did a left turnout and headed over Bedford … Read more
It has been a while since I have managed to do a navigation flight so I took the opportunity to do Hour Building: Local Flight from Cranfield in a Cessna 152. I wasn’t planning to go anywhere really special I just wanted to make sure I had at least 1 radio frequency change just to … Read more
Yesterday I went up the school to do a local flight but when I got there a few people were going on a navigation flight to Shoreham so we tagged along and I did hour building: Shoreham to Cranfield. This was cool because I got to do a lot of things for the first time. … Read more
Yesterday was a big day for me, it was the first time I had the chance to take someone up with me, I did Hour Building: First flight with a passenger. I was planning a navigation flight and land away to Leicester but the poor weather put a swift end to that. I only managed … Read more
After a few weeks of poor weather I finally got up to the flying school for Hour Building: Circuits at Cranfield (EGTC). Unfortunately as it had been 29 days since my last flight, I was one day outside of the schools rules so I had to do two circuits with an instructor. I won’t really … Read more