I have started my PPL Theory – Air Law, Human Performance & Operational Procedures. I was looking on the internet on opinions on if I should use the AFE or the Pooleys books when I came across a guy who writes his own books. The guy is called Phil Croucher and he seems to be … Read more
Yesterday was PPL Lesson 5: Slow Flight. We seem to be working through the syllabus quite quickly and things are starting to click. Today we started doing stalling for the first time. In our pre flight briefing my instructor taught me HASELL which helps you remember the procedure before doing a stall recovery. Height – … Read more
I was supposed to have a lesson yesterday but once again the Great British weather decided it was not to be. To be honest I’m glad because the only lesson available today gave me my first taste of night flying! Today I had PPL lesson 4: Night flying. I am still stuck at one lesson … Read more
Yesterday I had PPL Lesson 3: Climbing and Descending as my instructor was going to be away at the weekend. It turns out I got lucky as that was only his second flight of the day due to weather (note to self I really need to start calling before making the 20 mile trip to … Read more
So today I had PPL Lesson 2: Basic Handling, which was really just getting used to flying an aircraft. After take off the control was handed to me and more time was spent getting used to setting the trim correctly again. As well as this we did some climbs, some descending, and some turns, nothing too … Read more
Yesterday I tried to get my PPL of to a good start but the weather and poor viability put an end to that. Today I woke up to clear blue skies and so I was very optimistic about managing to get PPL Lesson 1: Basic Handling. As I suspected, we were able to fly so … Read more
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 … Read more
When looking for a school to train out I had 3 real things to consider. First was the location of the school, I needed somewhere that was within a reasonable distance. Second was the quality of the training and instructors and last was the fleet of aircraft at the school. After searching I discovered a … Read more
So earlier this year I took the skies for my first flying lesson at a local school called Cranfield Flying School. When I arrived I was met by my flight instructor and had a good chat about the training and what was involved. We then went out to the plane a Cessna 172 where he … Read more