Steep turns in the dark? Sitting at my desk here I felt as if i just dropped 300ft just reading that!
My thinking was I can only get to my club on a Sat really, and if weather is naff, thats it for that week. Doing flights at 7 or 8 on weeknights, although dark, I would treat them as normal hours, doing circuits, glide approaches, flapless, practicing just like if it were daytime. (I may draw the line at steep turns in the dark, however!)
I am thinking it is a way to expand the possible hours I can fly in any one week over winter, getting me up to speed that little bit quicker for the PPL skills test.
Incidently, how many hours instruction do you typically get before you are flying solo to practice? I am at 18 hrs now, and have 1hr solo over 2 flights. I have just finished PFLs and my first trip to another airfield for circuits (short field essentially). I'm not sure whats left to cover, other than Nav which i havent done (but sitting exam next week) but surely the rest of the time to 45hrs is not just me flying solo?