Good to go!

Thanks to our PPL School Chief Flying Instructor, Keith Charlesworth, I am good to go for another 2 years, having passed my pilot's licence renewal earlier today and having clocked up 420 flying hours.

The flight test covers various aspects of one training including emergency procedures, such as engine failures and fires and stalls, some of the more common reasons planes fall out of the skyye.

CFI Keith Charlesworth (left) putting Dave through his flight test (and selfie) skills 

Amanzimtoti from 1500 ft

200 hours

On Sunday with our flight down to Fredenheim our Sling and I both notched up 200 hours. Wow, never thought I would actually fly one day and already have this number of hours behind me. Tomorrow I am booked for my Night Rating Test and on Wednesday at the crack of dawn before the heat of the day sets in I have my first PPL re-validation test.

 

 

 

 

PPL Flight Test passed!!!



Final Flight Test today with Chief Flying Instructor Keith Charlesworth

Instrument flying under the "foggles" with Instructor Kyle

Beautiful clear day and view over KZN inland

I did my final lesson under "foggles" today completing my 15 hours of additional training to convert my NPL licence to PPL. This gives me the flexibility of flying a slightly heavier aeroplane, including the Sling with the additional fuel tank connected. The additional fuel tank pushes the Sling from a 600km to a 700kg mauw weight plane requiring the higher licence. The "foggles" were required for 5 hours of simulated cloud flying with reference to instruments only, a requirement for training PPL pilots.

The flight test with the Chief Flying Officer of Ayre Aviation Centre in Durban went smoothly and took a total of 2,8 hours. This included filing a flight plan and doing a dual cross country all of which too up my whole day from 8am to 4pm today.