Hi! Just thought I should introduce myself since I just registered!
I come from Greece, have a BEng in Aeronautical Engineering and currently doing my MSc. I have started flying lessons for my PPL (A) in October 2006 but have only managed 12:35 hours so far, mainly because of the weather. I started my training on a Cessna 152 and did about 6 hours there and got up to stalling. Winter really set in then and I had a 6 months gap, changed an instructor and also changed the aeroplane which I am trained in. I now fly a Diamond DA40, a lot better visibility from the cockpit, I like the control column more than the wheel, and the DA40 actually is 30 knots faster than the C152 and has double the crosswind limit. I have to admit, after all these changes it took some getting used to, to be honest it was almost like starting over again, so had 6 more hours training and I am now waiting for a good day to start circuits!! I will be forced to change my instructor for the third time but what can you do?
I am really looking forward in flying solo and as I have been saving money all year, hopefully do some intensive training before I go back to Greece (or Italy for a while ;-) ) in August.
Errmm, what else, I have a horrible greek accent, (ofcourse I do), and fear that I will mess up in the radio calls but since I heard a french pilot transmitting and understood nothing at all and the tower responded instantly with no problems I am more inclined to believe that they will understand what I am saying.
You can see my actual logbook uploaded in
http://www.e-logbooks.com/pilots/pilots_index.asp
and there is a nice pic of me there as well under "contact"
Oh yes...by the way, I am Nick..nice to be here ;-)