Well that’s it for module one groundschool, it’s absolutely
flown over and I can’t believe we are almost halfway through the groundschool
phase! We have our mock exams next week and then we’re off for 10 days of
reading over notes and trying not to go insane off intense question banking
before the real things start on July 1st. Our first set of 6 exams
consists of Aircraft General Knowledge, Principles of Flight, Meteorology,
Instruments and IFR and VFR Comms all crammed into 3 days.
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| Trying to remember everything! |
Since my last post, I’ve also been to CTC’s training centre
in Bournemouth which is where we all end up after New Zealand to do our
Instrument Rating. Me and James went, it was an excellent day and we got a
flight in a Diamond DA42 Twinstar! The pilot flying was training for his IR,
which meant the windscreen on his side was blocked out for the majority of the
flight. This is done so that we have to fly solely on instruments, not
visually. We flew to Cardiff, did a missed approach and then flew back to
Bournemouth. In total we were in the air for about 2 and a half hours. It was
excellent to see where I will end up in around one year’s time and it
definitely was another thing to keep to motivation up for these upcoming exams.
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| Flying past Cardiff Airport |
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| We even got a sneaky look in this beauty! |
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| Thanks G-CTCD! |
We also went into the simulator again the other day. It was an excellent two hour session, simulating things we have been learning throughout mod 1 such as trimming the aircraft, the effect of flaps and spoilers in straight and level flight and we also conducted a full auto-land in fog conditions at Bristol.
Anyway back to revision for me...
Since my last post, I’ve also been to CTC’s training centre
in Bournemouth which is where we all end up after New Zealand to do our
Instrument Rating. Me and James went, it was an excellent day and we got a
flight in a Diamond DA42 Twinstar! The pilot flying was training for his IR,
which meant the windscreen on his side was blocked out for the majority of the
flight. This is done so that we have to fly solely on instruments, not
visually. We flew to Cardiff, did a missed approach and then flew back to
Bournemouth. In total we were in the air for about 2 and a half hours. It was
excellent to see where I will end up in around one year’s time and it
definitely was another thing to keep to motivation up for these upcoming exams. 
