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Flying Training – The Heat is on!

2012, March 31
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SkyDemon

My Top 10 Aviation iPad / iPhone Apps

2012, January 26
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I haven’t done much flying lately due to weather and finances, nothing new there… But I do still keep a close eye on the current technology and gadgetry. I often get asked which are my most used applications on the iPhone and iPad so I decided to make a quick list. I’m still a [...]
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360 Degrees of the AirField

2011, August 18
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Today I was lucky that circumstances came together allowing me to get in an hour of circuit training with instructor Barry Davis. Due to time, weather and of course finances – my flying hours have been a little lacking lately. Also, when I started landing away, the main hours of [...]
Spot The Runway

Marginal VFR

2011, January 27
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It’s been over two months since I last went flying. I had a visit today from an old friend Dave Jozzy Jones from the [RnR] Gaming Clan (Those were the days!) and coincidentally, had an hour of flying booked too. As I am still a student, I am not allowed to carry passengers yet [...]
Parked at Humberside

First Solo Land Away

2010, September 17
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Friday 17th September – The weather was finally good enough to allow me to head out solo to land at Humberside. After completing this exercise with instructor Peter last week, I felt pretty confident that I would be able to manage this one on my own. Especially with all that [...]
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Landing Away

2010, September 7
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It has taken four or five attempts to get this particular exercise done. Once because of a mess up with timings but mostly due to our often mentioned and oh-so unreliable British weather. Finally, on Friday 3rd September I managed to fly to and land at Humberside Airport, [...]
Instructor Jonathan Anderson & Mr Phil

Solo Navigation

2010, July 9
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Today I completed my first ever solo journey out of the local airfield vicinity. I have done a fair amount of solo flying but up until now, only in the circuit at Sherburn. This means plenty of take-offs and landings but not much radio and navigation work. Today was the day when [...]
Air Navigation Pro

iNavigation

2010, June 27
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Friday, July 26 – Time for another section of navigation exercises from Sherburn. This time I had some technical testing and questions in mind as well as the actual navigation exercise. My questions – Does the GPS system that is built into the iPad work well enough to be used [...]
Entering The PA28

Flying Navigation with Guest

2010, May 28
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My navigation instruction continued on Friday with a trip to Hornsea (on the East coast of England). Instructor Jonathan gave me the OK to bring a passenger which was really neat. So I met my old friend Pete Neville in the morning and we finished off the flight plan and route [...]
Sherburn After Landing

First PPL Navigation Exercise

2010, May 21
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Today marked my first PPL Navigation exercise from Sherburn. I have been learning to fly now for over two years and today was the first time I have actually flown to a destination outside of the normal Sherburn circuit. There is some out of circuit work involved before the [...]
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