So after doing the night rating course and getting the sign off, the next job was getting the night rating in the licence. The day started at 6:45 as I heard it’s best to get to the CAA early as the later you leave it the longer the queues. Yeah well, that didn’t work as … Read more
So after a month of trying and failing due to the weather I finally got up to the school for night rating lesson 4: dual circuits. I only had 20 minutes of time required to complete the course but the school apparently has a 30 min minimum time that you have to fly, so we … Read more
I had a week off last week to attend the revision week for my first set of ATPL exams, so yesterday I had night rating lesson 3: solo circuits. My instructor and I had managed to do 3.3 hours in the last 2 lessons so it was possible that the night rating could have been … Read more
Following hot on the heals of yesterdays lesson I was back up the airfield today for night rating: lesson 2. I took the picture above at the start of night and within about 5 mins it was pretty much totally black. This lesson we wanted to focus on the circuits so we took of and … Read more
Now that the nights are dark I have decided it is time to get signed of for flying in the dark, so yesterday I had Night Rating: Lesson 1. So the first thing you can see from the picture is that it is dark, really dark. The only things that are really available to navigate … Read more