Today I went up the airfield and had PPL Lesson 39: Profiles. I am not sure why they are called profiles as it was really just a mock of the navigation part of the test. I was with another new instructor today as my regular one does not work Tuesdays or Wednesdays. I have seen her around the school and spoken to her before and like all the other instructors she was great.
My flight today took me from Cranfield to the Visual Reference Point that is Woburn Town. We then headed west towards Saffron Walden. En route I changed to Oxford Approach as we was going to be near their airspace and it is always best to talk to them. We then headed north but I knew that we would never reach our destination as I would be diverted like you will be on a test.
The wind was forecast to be 280/20 but I think it was a lot less, we had to use the closing drift angle twice to correct for this.
Around 10 minutes in I was asked to divert to Olney, so I got out my wind protractor and plotted a route to Olney which was basically due east. The timings were spot on and reach Olney exactly when I said we would. From here it was just a case of speaking to Cranfield, reporting that I was at Olney and negotiating my join back to airfield.
I am up to 44.3 hours now so after tomorrows lesson I will be able to be put forward for test, it all seems to be coming around very fast now! I am next with my main instructor on Thursday so we will see what he has to say.
Tomorrow we will be doing general handling as a brush up.
Also I learned that a further instructor also has gotten a new job, so if you are a instructor looking for a job, you might want to fire a CV of to Cranfield 🙂
