Originally Posted by
Final 3 Greens
By that I mean flying when it is actually dark
Exactly, it's one matter to arrive a few minutes after official night and another to set off on a x-country armed with the mk1 eyeball and a stopwatch.
Why??
The night rating course covers how to navigate in the dark, a little brief but does.
The tiny bit of time under the hood during PPL training should be enough to tell you how to read the AI to see if you are plumeting to death.
But then my questions stem from some slight differences between my training and a friends (and we used the same school)
I had VOR operation drummed in to me after i finished doing solo circuits
I had alot of under the hood work after my x-countries (including PFL's)