Finally it's time for my re-exam. This time I only had to do the three landings and if they were good I'd pass. I was scheduled for Tuesday 18 December but the Belgium guy's exam was canceled so I could do my retest one day earlier. On Monday the weather was horrible. I went to school anyways. I looked at the weather and there was overcast at 1000 feet with light rain. We only had to stay in the circuit for the landings so even the examiner was surprised that w...

All the training has come to this. The PPL exam. The school only has 1 UK examiner for the JAA PPL. Martin Lloyd is his name. The first part of the exam is navigation which is followed by aerial maneuvers. After that it is time for emergency procedures. The last part are the landings. It takes about 2 hours and the examiner takes the radio after the navigation part. He gives you the route for the navigation part 1 day before together with his weight and baggag...

Ok! All the requirements are fulfilled to start the exam. It has been a while since I practiced the maneuvers. The steep turn and the emergencies we only practiced once with my first instructor. The stalls are quite okay. There are three different ones. I mixed them up a few times but overall I got them down pretty well after a few times. The steep turn, a 45 degree bank angle, took me a lot more afford to learn. You can only loose or gain 100 feet while turn...

Hello again, This entry is about my cross country flights. I did them first with my instructor and after those I got an endorsement to do them on my own It took about 3-4 days for each trip for the weather to be good enough. For every trip I had to make a navigation log that I would follow to get to my destinations. I wasn't supposed to use GPS. I made copies of the nav logs after I put in the basic data. That way I didn't had to fill out the whole thing if ...

These post are in retrospect because on the 6th of December 2012 I had my checkride. More about this in the post when I'm up to date with my blog again. The flight training is way more intensive then I originally expected. Flying isn't as easy as learning to drive a car for example. It is a lot more complicated and not only because of the extra dimension. That's the reason why the blog got a bit behind but I have 1 week of no flying to catch up so here it goes....