Good evening all - long time no speak. Actually I've been away for nearly 4 weeks, so have done little flying since my last post. I'm now up to 41 hours, with just over 4 hours solo under my belt. Sadly, my regular instructor has done himslf some damage (not flying!!), so will be off flying duties for several weeks. I went up with another instructor about 4 weeks ago, and did a nav to the South. Everything went well, and he was happy with my progress, having never flown together before. He rather shocked me by saying that I was ready to go off on my own, out of the Zone, but that I couldn't do that until I had passed my Nav/Perf & Planning exams. I'm absolutely hopeless at disciplining myself to study as I know I must, but took the relevant books away with me whilst we cruised the South coast in our boat. Of course I did very little swatting, and I'm now panicking!!! This week I've got my Nav mock, so I'll be able to see how bad I really am. I've also booked my R/T Theory and Practical for Thursday, and having caught up with some of your experiences with the Oral part of it, I'm absolutely "sh..t...g" myself at it's complexity. I just don't see myself passing at the moment - still I'll go for it and see what happens.
Once these hurdles are passed, I'll be doing more nav, dual and solo - it was hinted that I'm not too far off completing the course, but we'll se how it progresses.
Many congrats to all of you that have done so well over recent weeks - it would be good to meet up with you all some day. On the boating website I frequent, there are various local Midland basaed boaters and we meet up for a pint somewhere central - perhaps we could do the same. It would be good to faces to names. What do you think??
Cheers all, and safe flying.