Peeps,
Thanks for all of your replies. I took my Skill Test yesterday and everything started off well!!!!
The weather according to the met office was good, good viz, calm winds, high cloud.......... The route was picked over to the west towards the lake district.
Performed all of the checks without any problems, taxied (after clearance!!!) to the holding point, performed power checks, got permision to take off and then it hit me!!! The wind that is!!!!
Not entirely sure but i think the Met office just use the lottery numbers when calculating the wind??? Luckily, apart from being thrown all over the sky the Nav section of the test was spot on with my ETA's being around a minute either side. The divert also was good (by this time we had a decent tailwind so it actually felt like we were moving!!!) and we got to the divert point on time.
When we tried to do some of the upper air work things didn't actually go to plan and we decided to put a lid on that part of the test. Hopefully i will be doing the rest today while i can still remember most of it!!!!
Anyway i passed the Nav section and should pass the handling today. As soon as we got up in the air the nerves seemed to fade away, now i don't know if that was due to every muscle in the upper half of my body working like the Hulk??? So i feel a lot calmer about the rest of the test.
Thanks again, and i'll let you know how i get on.
Bri