JWF-
lt took me quite a while to go solo,(circa 18hrs?) though we were doing other things until I did.
Since then it's been very good progress,so it goes to show that a 10 hr solo doesn't necessarily mean a great improvement overall.
Re solo nav so far, before I leave my instructor lets me do all the sums first then we go through them together to see if I'm right.
Really embarrassing one day when I laid off the wind on one leg in the wrong direction( and I have been sailing all my life!)
Just shows it pays to draw the wind on the chart and see what it's doing to you,then double check all your results!
Another thing, I thought that I could memorise checklists and do them that way.
Big mistake, as I have missed really important stuff by jumping a stage!
I flew at night last weekend with a good PPL of around 250 hrs.
He went through the check list really thoroughly just as I should do,so another lesson learned.
Talking to a pal who is an airline pilot,he told me they always use checklists because it's very easy to miss someting really imporatant.
Now no flying lessons until 6th Jan as school closed but no doubt I'll be up in the Moth or something over the hols.
Lister
