Before I turned thirty, my goal was to have my Commercial Pilots License. Saturday 10th November 2018 was a very special and nerve racking day. After 3 days of cancelling my skills test due to poor weather, a 2 hour window of beautiful weather appeared on Saturday morning which heard my callsign, “Exam18” in my DA42 G-HAFT. It has taken a week since I passed … Continue reading Commercial Pilots License
On the 30 August 2018, I had my first instructional flight on the Diamond DA42 Twin Star aircraft in Oxford airport. I started with my Multi Engine Piston (MEP) Rating which is 6 hours of flight including: familiarisation, general handling, asymmetric flight and circuits plus a theory exam. I am writing this, having completed the MEP (6 hours) and Basic Instrument Flight module (BIFM – … Continue reading Multi Engine Flying
After watching Arthur Williams, Flying Across Britain, it made me very nostalgic about my own time carving routes in the sky. Since passing my PPL in 2015 I only recently completed my hour building adventure whilst on ATPL ground school in 2018. Having passed my PPL in the summer of 2015, Over the next 18 months (December 2016) I did 25 hours command time in … Continue reading Hour Building across Britain and Europe
When I started this course in 2017, I was full of energy, during Phase 2 the halfway blues set in and finally 9 months later (Aug 2018) with a week till my final 7 exams in Gatwick, mental fatigue kicked in. My ATPL theory took me 9 months and 20 days to complete, and culminated with 14 ATPL first time exam passes. I will remember Friday … Continue reading Phase 3 – ATPL Theory Complete
