Night Rating and PPL revalidation

 

Thanks Warren (left) from Ayre Aviation for the training for my Night Rating as well as putting me through my paces for my first PPL licence revalidation. I managed consecutive sunset and sunrise flights last night and at the crack of dawn this morning to pass both.

 

Wow, Durban really is beautiful by night and by day. Unusual last night was the inversion with high winds (up to 65kms per hour rocking the plane, and the high temperatures at 3000 ft - 42 deg c, whereas it was 29c on the ground at 8pm.

 

Waiting in ZDL at twilight for the growing dark and adjustment to my vision

Catching the sunrise reflected in the window behind one of Ayre's 4 Slings they use for training. I was doing owner training on our own Dragon Warrior ZDL.

As the sun has risen, getting ready to fly out for my revalidation test. A pilot needs to have the first one within 12 months of getting your licence, and every 2 years thereafter.

Checking those expiry dates

We're off on our epic trip to Cape Town and up the west coast this Friday. Wow, it's going to be quite hectic - 20 hours in the air at least.

Anyways, I realised as I made copies of my whole aircraft authorities and licences, that there are expiry dates that one needs to watch and renew timeously.

I have therefore created a handly expiry checklist to enable me to track the dates. I have loaded it to my public skydrive, so please feel free to download it and use it if you think it may also be useful. I have also loaded one in exel format so if you want to edit it, that is also possible.

Here is the Skydrive link for the download.