The Flying Geek

“India Victor Tango, congratulations on your first solo…”
I’ve always heard that every pilot, even those who have been flying for many years, never forget their first solo. Now, having had the privilege of doing the same myself, I can see why pilots can never shut up about their first solo – it’s an experience that [...]

Finally free from the grasps of assignments (but not quite exams!), I can finally write about the flying that I’ve done during October. It’s been a fairly good month as far as the weather is concerned; windy, but not too much, and relatively dry.
The last few lessons have been mostly revision flying. Most of the [...]

Unfortunately, the last few weeks of the university semester does mean a lot of assignment work. I haven’t even had a chance to look at this blog during this time! A post is coming though, I promise. But, in the last few weeks I’ve done:

circuit revision
glide approaches
side-slipping
EFATO/Go-Around revision
stalling revision

I’ve also sat the pre-solo/pre-area solo exam [...]

This post is for a lesson I had last week. Uni breaks tend to mean lots of uni assignments unfortunately…on the bright side, only three weeks left!
We did some more circuits today on 31R and boy did they suck. I’m not sure if it was the weather or the new runway or something else that [...]

After a day of absolutely atrocious weather causing my lesson to be cancelled last week, I was able to fly in slightly less atrocious weather today (it was still pretty bad!). Winds were varying between 300 and 350 at 20kts with a 10kt crosswind, and the ride was very bumpy on upwind and final.
Flapless landings/circuits [...]