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28-07-24 – First solo land away at Earls Colne!

July 28, 2024

The weather is perfect, clear blue summer sky and it’s the turn of my first solo land away at Earls…

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27-07-24 – Exploring Earls Colne

July 27, 2024

A brand new airfield for me today, Earls Colne. This was with my instructor. On my nav I needed to…

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14-07-24 – Another day another nav solo

July 14, 2024

A CAVOK morning.. perfect for a solo nav. J28 -> Northey Island -> Sheerness -> Brentwood/J28 Leg 1 Had to…

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13-07-24 – First nav solo!

July 13, 2024

Today was finally the day, we shifted my lesson a bit earlier in order to absolutely avoid some potential rain…

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07-07-24 – No solo, stall and steep

July 7, 2024

Unfortunately with some rain on the radar, particularly to the south, this meant that my planned navigation or solo nav…

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16-06-24 – To Brands Hatch, or not

June 16, 2024

So I planned for two routes today: Unfortunately the weather was not solo ready, Stansted and Southend were showing SCT…

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15-06-24 – PFLs

June 15, 2024

PFL revision ahead of solo nav. On initial contact with Southend, I shared “General handling in the Hanningfield area” as…

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09-06-24 – Land away

June 9, 2024

My first time landing away, and it was at Southend. I entered via Northey Island, as this is well placed…

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03-03-24 Transiting Controlled Airspace

March 3, 2024

After some weather cancellations and my previous attempt at this route ending in failure due to poor en route weather.…

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AGK Revision Notes

February 26, 2024

The Turn Co-ordinator is generally electrically operated, so is not affected by a suction pump failure. The Attitude Indicator and…

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