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In amateur radio you occasionally encounter what are termed frequency police - voices that appear from nowhere and tell you 'you're off frequency' or 'this is my frequency and I've been using it since the year dot so you can't use it'. Unfortunately...

Seeing as the Quad Rule has popped up recently 19

You intend to fly the route

Third solo consolidation exercise yesterday - went well, 30 minutes in the circuit. Coventry can be fairly busy in the circuit, but today i shared the circuit with another student who flew slower and wider circuits than i am used too, also only...

Maybe I'm just beiing stupid, but I've been reading up on QNH and QFE for some time now and I just cant get my head around it!

Can any of you experienced guys n gals explain it in a nutshell?

When do you use QNE and when QFE? What exactly is...

I was having a lovely wander around Norfolk and the Wash today and thought I would try the location services of London Centre 121.50MHz.

Good afternoon London Centre this is G-BBTG please could you fix my location, for practice

Response

G-BBTG...

There is lot's of advice around saying 'visit an ATSU to see what they do'

This seems like sage advice but has anyone ever done it? If so how?

Calling East Mids Approach and requesting 'joining instructions and a visit to your nice big tower'...

Hi,

After reading that excellent article

Hi everyone, my name is Paul and I live in Newcastle upon Tyne, 40 yr old and desparate to get myself organised to start my PPL asap.

Seems like Newcastle is not too good a place to learn, high prices and well OTT landing charges. Have I got a...

Just starting out learning fixed wing, on my list of goodies to get is a knee/flightboard but there are quite a few to choose from.. which one should I get ???

Andy

passed my Radio telephony exam,

so happy (and very surprised!)

I had a wonderful morning yesterday doing my second solo NavEx from Blackbushe to Kemble.

FI was completely happy to let me get on with it and do my own learning.

So what did I learn?

Well I'm certainly not immune to a few cock-ups:

1....

Hi there

When you chaps fly a Navex and find yourself off track, do any of you use the 1 in 60 rule?

I have been doing a few navex's and my instructor has been asking me to use the 1 in 60 to get back on track. It seems if you work out the...

:D Hi Guys - I have reservations about going to the states for 21 days - might be a bit hard on my wife and two boys (3 & 8) :cry: . Should I do my ppl at a local club instead, or bite the bullet and DO it??

Thanks in advance!

Got my first solo today!

Well nerve racking!

My instructor sprung it on me, I done 2 sorties (3 if you include my solo) first sortie was mainly EFATO's and 6 circuits, had a 1hr break where i was able to gather my thoughts.

We went up on...

Anyone know much about this Aviation course at Leeds?

Can't make up my mind, thinking of starting in september 2005 if i go, i'll also have a PPL by the end of this month.

What do people do with their Oxford flight training CDs after the pass their PPL?

Anyone selling any?

Thom, Pratt or Other?

Well this was a different kettle of fish entirely from the first navex.

The route was Norwich > Watton > Crowfield > Beccles > Norwich.

It was quite hazy (hazier than I've experienced before anyway), which meant spotting landmarks...

Ok, I'm booked in for a practice skills test on the weekend.

From what I've been told, I will have to arrive at my destinations within 3 mins of my calculations. This is fine for the planned legs, but what about the diversions? Firstly, what's...

Hi there,

I've been doing circuits for a few hours now, and I can never seem to get the flare right. My approach is good it's just I have no idea when I should start the flare. Im instructor says i should look towards the end of the run way and...

I am having big problems with getting to grips with the Trevor Thom Met book because having done some met stuff about 9 years ago (and forgotten most of it) I find his attempts to explain everything really annoying. Are there any alternative met...

I haven't posted much on these forums through the course of my course ;-) However I have read many of the student posts and feel that they were an excellent form of preperation for many parts of my flying development. In what I can only hope is some...

I've just signed up with the forum and thought I'd say hi!! I've just started my lessons in a Cesna 172 (1hour only) over here in Oz and everything was scary in a rollercoaster lets do it again!! kind of way.

My first question is if there is an...

Finally, after two weeks of fretting over my 'near miss' fail two weeks ago, I passed the nav exam.

Not so much chuffed as relieved...... now I can fret over the navigation skills test in a few weeks time!!!

JIM

Though someone might be interested in this, cheap enough..

PS its not me selling ...

You have just taken off in the airplane which you flew last There is a

Plop! And a rush of air which you identify as the door opening, canopy

opening or luggage locker opening ( depending on the aircraft type )

Can you close the door/canopy/...

Whoopee - only the QXC & Skills Test to do now. It's starting to feel close!

Anyway, for those that haven't done RT practical yet here is the drill...

You are given a 'chart' (actually a photocopied black & white A4 sheet), a set of...

I'm learning at an airfield with full ATC and over the last couple of lessons have made a couple of radio calls. The flying school have given me an A4 crib sheet and the start up calls look like this:

me: Good morning/afternoon XXXX Tower, G-XXXX...

i'm up for the biggie this week, any last minute hints/tips from you aviators out there?? :?: :?:

Hi

I am hoping that I

Yippee :bounce: 1 down 6 to go

Many thanks to all those who have set Q & A on this forum, :salut: every little bit helps!

RB

Currently reading Air Law and I'm pretty sure I know what the Quandrant Rule is, but can some of you guys please explain it in your own words.

cheers

Looking to next year. Can somebody explain the FAA Instrument and Twin rating to me (doing both in one go). Assuming I go to America and take an intensive course, what sort of lengh of time can I expect it to take? Would it also be realistic to...

Managed to get a lesson in today - first one since going solo.

Did three PFL's from 3000ft, nice and straight forward. back to base ffor a full flap power off landing then two solo circuits. I was in a different plane today G-BOFM a C152 which...

Can anyone confirm what the minimum track divergence is between legs when planning the QXC?.

Is this true for both PPL&CPL?

Hiya,

Been reading some of the threads and seems like a decent forum. Lots of good ideas and advice. With a sense of humour,which is good.

I've had a couple of flying lessons, well, half-hour present thingies.

What I would like to know is,...

phew :D I didn't think I would

i got three wrong. One about the Coriolis effect, which I didn't think through properly - doh! One about advection fog, which I'd have got right if I hadn't changed my mind at the last moment. And one about the...

Bouncy bouncy boing. Passed my airlaw exam today. 90% (swot :wink: )

Now what next? I think either Met or Tech. Met has the advantage of being in the same book as airlaw which I already have, but it's another shockingly dry subject (no pun...

I'm revising Met at the moment. One thing I don't get is that there doesn't seem to be any advice about what constitutes acceptable existing or forecast weather for light aircraft operations. Sure, it teaches you how to read a forecast, but then...

Hello all, thought it was about time to join a pilot forum :D

Im currently studying for my New Zealand CPL, Ive been at it for quite some time now :roll: Im gonna try and finish it off before I go to live in England at the beginning of next year,...

And can you make it an easy one? Preferably something air law related, as I am ploughing through the book at the moment.

Is there actually a difference between Flight Information Service (FIS) & Radar Information Service (RIS)?

I can't remember ever having heard anyone ask for a RIS and our instructors always tell you to ask for a FIS.

Whenever I have called an...

All exams now done, good feeling having failed nav twice :oops: :oops: ..

Solo nav next a daunting prospect...

Mark

Had a great lesson today at Biggin - second lesson on stalling. FI pleased with my recoveries (remembered not to try and correct the wing drop with the ailerons) so then he says, it's lovely up here, come on take it to five and a half thousand and...

Of a bad days flying!

So far so good, i managed 14hrs without a bad day of flying.

Yesterday, I had my first bad day! Mostly, because of my flare and landings, i done very good circuits, done good approaches, and the landings just messed...

Interesting session in the circuit at Kemble just after lunch. Got to the club and it was dry and calm, with clouds about 800ft, which suited me fine since the microlight circuit is at 600ft.

The session started fine, feeling relaxed with an...

supposed to be flying today but due to weather not being good enough for my solo consolidation thought id do the met exam instead,being dreading this for ages but i bit the bullet and passed with 90% :shock:

couldnt believe it.

I was supposed to be doing my NPPL Nav Test on Friday. I was also supposed to be doing some more Solo NavEx work ond Friday and Satruday AM.

So I phones the flying club on Thursday to check everything's OK because I'd heard that Studes weren't...

After passing the last three written exams on Monday (nav, flight planning and aircraft technical), and getting the last hour of flying revision done, I was told I was ready for the skills test. This was booked for the next day (Tuesday), first...

Has anybody tried/got the ppl confuser on cd rom (from groundup software) ?

Its on ebay at the mo, and I was just wondering if its worth it ?

(groundup seem to have ground down so not much info there..)