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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: August 2005

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Monday, August 29, 2005. Lesson 33, Thruxton Solo. Today was the day for the Thruxton solo flight, I wake up this morning feeling optimistic as the weather outside looked good with clear blue skies and calm wind. I looked at the time and realised I had to be getting back so I quickly finished the coke and headed back out. After start-up I taxie...

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: IMC Lesson #4

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Thursday, May 11, 2006. Today was unusual attitude recovery on partial panel, also climbing, descending, timed turns etc. The weather was amazingly smooth and cloudless, which makes a change! Posted by Chris @ Thursday, May 11, 2006. At Sunday, May 14, 2006 12:10:00 pm. At Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:57:00 am. Thanks Matthew for the encouragement!

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: Cornwall again

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Wednesday, May 03, 2006. Posting this a little after the event due to time constraints in the past couple of days. Monday was May day and therefore a public holiday, so we decided to head to Cornwall, this time to visit a WWII airfield called Perranporth which was hosting a fly-in and BBQ for pilots and the public. We had missed the BBQ sadly a...

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: IMC Training and ferry flight

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Wednesday, May 03, 2006. IMC Training and ferry flight. After a short while I was vectored on to the approach for Denham and was allowed to remove my hood as we crossed the lakes on base. We stopped and picked up Nigel and then departed back to Blackbushe, again under the hood. More of the same stuff on the way. Finally we descended below the c...

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: March 2006

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Friday, March 24, 2006. Therefore I think the IMC rating, whilst limited is probably the only option for me right now, at least until the CAA bring in a world wide recognised IR for private pilots rather than us having to either study to ATPL standards or look to the US FAA. Posted by Chris @ Friday, March 24, 2006. Thursday, March 23, 2006.

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: Another ferry flight

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Wednesday, May 03, 2006. Yesterday in the evening I did another ferry flight for Cabair, taking an AA5-A to collect Matt and Angela from Biggin Hill Executive airport who were in turn taking a Piper Warrior to maintainence. Anyway good flight and a reminder to double check everything! Posted by Chris @ Wednesday, May 03, 2006.

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: July 2006

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Thursday, July 27, 2006. My IMC training is completed albeit the final skills test which is scheduled for next Wednesday, which I am half excited about and half dreading. The IMC has proved to be an exacting course but enjoyable and has improved the accuracy of my flying enormously. Posted by Chris @ Thursday, July 27, 2006. Isle of Wight again.

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: Lots of flying

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. The aircraft to ferry was another AA5 although this time the more powerful 180hp AA5-B 'Tiger', which I have limited time on (read two hours). Cranfield wanted to use the aircraft at 8:30am however due to having to refuel before departing I didn't leave until 8:44am! At Blackbushe I grabbed a coffee than headed back h...

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me.: Test flight

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Newton's laws of motion as applied to me. General Aviation focused journal, recounting the process of learning to fly and of achieving the private pilots license. Friday, April 28, 2006. Spent this afternoon at the airfield with our engineer taking a look at the oil problem, the problem was a gasket on one of the magnetos (which have just been replaced with new ones). The engineer was excellent and fielded alot of inane questions from me, as he fixed the plane. Posted by Chris @ Friday, April 28, 2006.