4 months of CPL/IR Training in a 5 minute video

Desember 20, 2010

Instrument Rated

7:00am, gorgeous blue sky outside, not even a single cloud up there.Today is no different from any other training day, other than the fact that an Examiner will be seating next to me on a tough flight for over 2 hours.Despite the superb weather, the forecast is far from great. Snow...

Desember 01, 2010

The IR Journey

The usual IR course day is composed of one flight and one backseat, with all the planning that comes along.Unfortunately this week has been pretty busy at PAT and despite the great efforts to fit me in, I didn't get to fly a lot.We visited three new airports (Exeter, Bristol International...

November 20, 2010

Flights to Cardiff and Bristol Filton

Bournemouth - Bristol Filton - Bournemouth - Cardiff - Bournemouth, that was the plan for the day.I flew the first two sectors, and Steve was doing the last two.First IFR nav ever, that was quite a moment.Flight plan filled, aircraft preflighted, there we were, walking on the airpron...

November 10, 2010

Be76 Cloud Surfing IFR

Sim check done and dusted, we're finally back in the plane for the last 20 hours of training.The first few flights are familiarisation with the IFR procedures, holds, vectored ILS, general handling, stalls under IMC (Instruments Conditions), some more partial panel (flying instruments...

November 03, 2010

Instrument Rating, 4 weeks locked in a sim

The IR (Instrument Rating) is probably the most important course towards the airline flying. This is where we're taught all the procedures flown on instruments (and not visually unlike the CPL), flying in all kinds of awful weather.My flightmate and I started the course the day following...

Oktober 27, 2010