28-07-24 – First solo land away at Earls Colne!
The weather is perfect, clear blue summer sky and it’s the turn of my first solo land away at Earls Colne. I…
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27-07-24 – Exploring Earls Colne
A brand new airfield for me today, Earls Colne. This was with my instructor. On my nav I needed to have planned…
Read more14-07-24 – Another day another nav solo
A CAVOK morning.. perfect for a solo nav. J28 -> Northey Island -> Sheerness -> Brentwood/J28 Leg 1 Had to be careful…
Read more13-07-24 – First nav solo!
Today was finally the day, we shifted my lesson a bit earlier in order to absolutely avoid some potential rain in the…
Read more07-07-24 – No solo, stall and steep
Unfortunately with some rain on the radar, particularly to the south, this meant that my planned navigation or solo nav was not…
Read more16-06-24 – To Brands Hatch, or not
So I planned for two routes today: Unfortunately the weather was not solo ready, Stansted and Southend were showing SCT around 2000/2100…
Read more15-06-24 – PFLs
PFL revision ahead of solo nav. On initial contact with Southend, I shared “General handling in the Hanningfield area” as my routing.…
Read more09-06-24 – Land away
My first time landing away, and it was at Southend. I entered via Northey Island, as this is well placed for a…
Read more03-03-24 Transiting Controlled Airspace
After some weather cancellations and my previous attempt at this route ending in failure due to poor en route weather. The weather…
Read moreAGK Revision Notes
The Turn Co-ordinator is generally electrically operated, so is not affected by a suction pump failure. The Attitude Indicator and the Direction…
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