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Old 21st Jan 2016, 18:21
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mary meagher
 
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Stan, get in the habit of keeping track of the weather....I watch the forecast on BBC (the others are rubbish!) both every morning and every evening news time. This way you have an idea of the trends, which you can nail down by checking the online forecasts, either BBC for your precise locality, or the more elaborate forecasts available to pilots when planning a cross country later on in your flying career...

And I do hope you have midweeks available....when everybody else is working, if you can turn up midweek you will make RAPID progress! I went solo in gliders at Booker, Wycombe Air Park, in 2 months of midweek flying, not bad for an old woman. And then after gaining the gliding silver "C" the following summer did the book learning for the PPL, and nailed that one in a couple of weeks in winter, at Wycombe Air Centre. When you are qualified to go cross country in a glider, the only thing left to learn in power is how to start the engine, taxi, and talk on the radio....
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