Generally speaking it’s a bad thing to have lots of distractions, but one of the skills a pilot must learn is to prioritise tasks and ‘time-slice’ them as required, keeping foremost those tasks that are the most important. Last week I was happy with my steep turns (so was my instructor). I was looking out, [...]
On my recent trip to the USA, it occured to me that it would be nice to do an aerial tour of such places as the San Francisco bridge and the Grand Canyon. In the last news letter I mentioned how spectacular the Golden Gate bridge was from the air, and certainly it was a [...]
I was lucky being able to continue with my tuition during the dark winter months, dodging the rain and what little snow we had here in South Wales, and having to compete for aircraft time with all my fellow student pilots, who also wanted to fly. Around this time a new syndicate was forming at [...]
Cambrian Flying Club had been planning a fly out to France on the 18 and 19th of July. We were all geared up for it, but because of the weather we had to cancel the flight to France, and plan “B” was implemented; a flight to Galway on the West coast of Ireland.{mosimage} Next morning [...]
Cambrian Flying Club had been planning a fly out to France on the 18 and 19th of July. We were all geared up for it, but because of the weather we had to cancel the flight to France, and plan “B” was implemented; a flight to Galway on the West coast of Ireland. Next morning [...]
A favorite of check ride examiners is to ask about one of the simplest instruments in the aircraft, the magnetic compass. “Say what instrument is that?” The poor sap you think, he’s trying to catch me out by asking about the simplest instrument in the aircraft. thank god he didn’t ask how the Artificial horizon [...]
