Passed PPL Skill Test!
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Passed PPL Skill Test!
Just a quick note, to say there is another Private Pilot in the skies! I am 17....just...and passed my JAR PPL on Saturday the 15th of July! aged 17 and a week with 45.1hrs. Dead Chuffed. Only just started driving! 
Any Advice, I'm keen to hear..I already realise that i have the licence, but i still feal there are many unanswered questions and an unlimited amount of experience yet to be gained!
Cheers guys...had to get it out!
Sam Kidd
Any Advice, I'm keen to hear..I already realise that i have the licence, but i still feal there are many unanswered questions and an unlimited amount of experience yet to be gained!
Cheers guys...had to get it out!
Sam Kidd
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Well done mate !
All the "grey beards" will tell you that you're just about to start learning, and I suppose they're right - that's why they've earned their beards, I guess !
My advice : enjoy it, be a little frightened of it, but not too frightened to try new things as you feel ready ... and don't forget to read the rather quaintly titled "GA Courting" thread - at 17 you've got to be in with a shout at that !
Good luck to you, I hope our paths cross (on the ground
) at some time !
Cheers,
FF
All the "grey beards" will tell you that you're just about to start learning, and I suppose they're right - that's why they've earned their beards, I guess !
My advice : enjoy it, be a little frightened of it, but not too frightened to try new things as you feel ready ... and don't forget to read the rather quaintly titled "GA Courting" thread - at 17 you've got to be in with a shout at that !
Good luck to you, I hope our paths cross (on the ground
) at some time !Cheers,
FF
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TrafficControl,
Well done matey, I passed my skills test on Friday at Bournemouth. Have to admit it was a bit of an anti climax after the terror of my cross country qualifier!!
I totally couldn't see Exeter, started to get a bit worried even more so after Radar asked me to report field in sight and I heard my little squeaky voice saying " oh yes I can see you" (lying b*****d) Pottered up to Exeter and finally saw the field as I got half way downwind!!
Good luck for the future
TJF97
Well done matey, I passed my skills test on Friday at Bournemouth. Have to admit it was a bit of an anti climax after the terror of my cross country qualifier!!
I totally couldn't see Exeter, started to get a bit worried even more so after Radar asked me to report field in sight and I heard my little squeaky voice saying " oh yes I can see you" (lying b*****d) Pottered up to Exeter and finally saw the field as I got half way downwind!!
Good luck for the future
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well done mate , huge achivement 
glad to see you are enjoying your flying as well. I would offer to buy you a beer, but unfortunatly I would be breaking the law 
Where do you fly out of?
, huge achivement glad to see you are enjoying your flying as well. I would offer to buy you a beer, but unfortunatly I would be breaking the law Where do you fly out of?
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Only advice I would offer is to keep make sure you practice the things you do not like doing. e.g I used to have a worry about cross wind landings which I tried to avoid until I made myself do a bunch of circuits with a strong crosswind close to the published limit of my ageing PA28-140 (17 knots).
We only fear and avoid the unknown - so get to make the unknowns known (in the infamous words of Mr Rumsfeldt)
Congratulations and well done
We only fear and avoid the unknown - so get to make the unknowns known (in the infamous words of Mr Rumsfeldt)
Congratulations and well done
Originally Posted by Fournicator
Chicks dig pilots. Fact.
Why then, do I always pretend to be a Penguin Psychologist or somesuch when out on the razzle?
Why then, do I always pretend to be a Penguin Psychologist or somesuch when out on the razzle?
congratulations on passing, enjoy.
Fournicator - i find a dog warden works well too
