Alright, a little update about the visa application. To study in the US you need a M-1 Visa. The I-20 form is issued by the school and this is the basic document to apply for the visa. One also has to pay a SEVIS fee which costs 200 USD at this time of writing. You pay it after you get the I-20 and pay it online. Then you fill out the d160 electronic form on the website of the US consulate. It takes about 1.5 hours to complete. Once all this is done you have...

Now that I have the class 2 medical certificate I'm ready to enrol into flight school and book the flights to and from the US. After a lot of research with the pre and after travelling in mind I decided it's cheaper and more practical to book 2 single tickets from Brussels to NYc and from LA to Amsterdam. The M1 visa does not require to have the return ticket booked before you go. So far I only booked 1 single ticket to NYC, it's official now I'm leaving on the 2...

Alright. I have a huge smile on my face still. I went to Wellesbourne, Mountford airport. Take flight aviation has its home base here. It is here where I will take 4 theory exams for the PPL. The goal for this trip was to take 4 theory exams + eye exam + medical exam. It took a few tries emailing flight schools who were willing to accept a student for just the exams. Eventually I found one and the instructor and examiner's name is Sat. He told me where to go ...

Hello all,Today the books arrived that I ordered a few days ago in the UK. My mom received the "very heavy package". It is a complete student kit with books, nav. equipment etc. It also came with a real pilot carrying case, you know the once you see in the movies. It looks a bit bulky and weighs a kilo on its own but it looks professional so we'll see if I'm gonna use it. The books I ordered are written by J. Pratt. A very famous guy in the UK aviation world. Now...

The story beginsOn March 17th my father, Jan and I went to Eindhoven Airport for a test flight in a Cessna 172, the same airplane that I'm planning to train in. We were welcomed and were "processed" by the soldiers as the airstrip was on the military part of the airport. I met my trainer and we went to a training room to get a pre-flight briefing. Here he explained how an airplane can move around the 3 axes. Unfortunately Jan couldn't go on the airplane because i...