First flights as a PPL ✈
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I waited 3 weeks to get my license, UK CAA seem to take ages to produce a simple piece of double sided paper.... You'd think they gave you a little more than that after spending so much on its issue....
Anyway - after 3 weeks of not flying I wanted to make sure I still felt as confident as I had before. So I went up and did 5 circuits. The next day I tried to take my little sister and mother to the Isle of Wight but with a cloudbase getting lower, we ended up turning back early. Third flight was with my girlfriend and we flew about 4 and a bit hours over most prominent places in the southeast of England, landed at Bembridge for lunch and flew back only to be stunned at how much I had spent! ;-)
Had my license come earlier I probably wouldn't have gone solo first, my instructor was very good at distracting me when we did the navigation part of the PPL as to simulate what it'd be like with passengers chatting, asking questions, asking about houses / castles...
Good fun!
Anyway - after 3 weeks of not flying I wanted to make sure I still felt as confident as I had before. So I went up and did 5 circuits. The next day I tried to take my little sister and mother to the Isle of Wight but with a cloudbase getting lower, we ended up turning back early. Third flight was with my girlfriend and we flew about 4 and a bit hours over most prominent places in the southeast of England, landed at Bembridge for lunch and flew back only to be stunned at how much I had spent! ;-)
Had my license come earlier I probably wouldn't have gone solo first, my instructor was very good at distracting me when we did the navigation part of the PPL as to simulate what it'd be like with passengers chatting, asking questions, asking about houses / castles...
Good fun!
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Went for a few bimbles around by myself and with another pilot or two.
First 'proper' flight took my sister to fly over her town - quite a distance away.
She felt cold throughout the flight, but didn't like to ask me to put the heating on in case she distracted me.
As we returned to the circuit I apparently said 'You've got to stop talking now, I need to concentrate.'
Poor woman hadn't said a word throughout whilst she quietly froze
She did come flying again, once I'd got a bit more confidence!
First 'proper' flight took my sister to fly over her town - quite a distance away.
She felt cold throughout the flight, but didn't like to ask me to put the heating on in case she distracted me.
As we returned to the circuit I apparently said 'You've got to stop talking now, I need to concentrate.'
Poor woman hadn't said a word throughout whilst she quietly froze
She did come flying again, once I'd got a bit more confidence!
