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 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 more25-02-34 – First Zone Transit Request
It was time for my first zone transit request! I had tried to prepare for the RT the night before but it’s…
Read more24-02-24 – South of the river
Finally made my first trip south of the river today on my 2nd (well 3rd) nav with Sue from J28 -> Hartley…
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