David's Flight Adventures

The day was not looking good.  The forecast earlier in the week had been that it was going to rain most of the day.  As Saturday dawned, it still looked overcast and, more importantly, the winds were quite strong.  I don't know the wind strength as I have not got any knowledge in this area yet.   As requested, I rang the airfield at 10am to be told it was not good then but they were expecting it to pick up.  I rang back at 1.00pm to be told it was now flyable, so I headed off. Once at the airfield, I met my instructor for the lesson, Martin.  I won't always have the same instructor as it depends who is on duty and there are 4 possible instructors at Clench Common.  My feeling is that Graham, the owner and CFI, won't teach me at all and will be the one who will do the GST (General Skills Test).  This way, they keep all the teaching and examining 'in house'.  This is just supposition on my part, not anything that I have been told. After a b...

I was sat at home thinking about things and having a look at the other options local to me.  It occurred that I didn't have a logged record of my trial flight in the C42 and that is an hour that can go towards my total time.  It is actually counted as the first exercise in the NPPL training. I decided that I would take a trip over to G S Aviation at Clench Common to buy a log book and get the flight logged.  It was whilst I was there that I again talked though my options with Dave Slater and, to cut a long story short, I have decided to start my training with them.  He has confirmed that if I took a lesson every 2 to 3 weeks, that would be OK, I don't have to fly every week to make progress.  1 a month would be the maximum between flights if at all possible.  The weather may have a baring on this later in the year, but for now, I will try and stick with this. Learning on a 'pay as you go' basis also makes it more manageable, financially.  The cost ...