Mike's Flying

It’s been a while.

As predicted by more than a few people, my dedication to mikesflying.com waned after a couple of months. This will not do. I’m resurrecting the site and the blog as of now – with a new resoloution to blog at least once a week – if not more. Luckily now I’m stuck into Phase 2 of my training and I’m actually being allowed behind the controls of real aircraft I’ve got a whole lot more to write about. I can’t guarante insightful, eloquent or even particularly interesting prose, but I can guarantee that I’ll enjoy writing my humble submissions.

So, given that I’m going to keep this fairly concise, I’ll fill you all in on the last few months:

Feb: Study leave, revising for JAR exams.

March: Sat JAR exams and…

Passed them all! marks as follows:

• Principles of Flight: 80%
• Aircraft general Knowledge: 95%
• Mass and balance: 100%
• General navigation: 91%
• Meterology: 83%
• Radio navigation: 92%

This give a nice healthy average of 90.2%.

April: Start Flying! Complete my First solo on my 10th hour – and christen my new callsign: ‘Cygnet 315‘

May: Not such a happy month. The month got off to a bad start when I broke up with Andrena. It’s a long an involved story, and for both of our sake I’m not going into it all here. Suffice to say that being run-off-my-feet busy with flying and work here in Phase 2 leaves me wonderfully little time to dwell on it all. On the up side I’ve accrued a few more solo hours and I’ve also started Instrument flying in anger.

Well, that’s you brought quickly and roughly up to date, I’ll be back soon!