Hi all, Been a while since I have posted anything on here, as i havnt much interesting to say! However, I took the Technical & Principles exam on Sunday and Passed with 92%! Couldnt believe I had it in me ! Oh well, 1 down and 4 more to go Steve
well exam that is! weather was rubbish on Saturday, 20 kts gusting 30 not the best wind for my ongoing landing practice. been reading aircraft technical and instruments in Cosgrove so was feeling confident when Phil suggested some ground school followed by the exam. the lesson went well and we did some theories on the white board and then some practice questions with an old paper which went well. Then for the suprise, 50 questions and an hour and a quarter, having only done the ...
So yesterday I had my second lesson with Dave at Airplay (Cambridge) this time it was more windy. We covered: Exercise 5 - Taxying, and Exercise 6 - Straight and Level Flight Taxying wasn't too bad, relatively straight forward apart from me forgetting to move the wing when we turned and the direction of the wind changed, but all in all, not too bad. Straight & level flight, well I know from my first flight that I do have a tendency ...
Well, here is yet another blog about weight loss - I fear I'm becoming as boring as a new parent. Oh dear. Maybe then it won't be ALL about weight loss then! I have a theory - that time spent shifting the lbs need not be time 'lost' - apart from the fact that losing this weight is long overdue for my overall health, I wonder if I might use this time while I cannot fly in a microlight to put some ground school time in? It seems on one hand to be the perfect time to do ...
I always wondered what the dieter's obsession with the bathroom scales was. I have clearly seen too many bad 'Fly on the wall' programmes, the kind that contain about 10 minutes of footage endlessly repeated, chopped up, talked over, and generally rehashed to fill an hour long TV slot. Here you would see people mortally afraid of the scales, like it's some terrible mystery that has either an awful consequence or evokes an emotion apparently not dissimilar to winning the Lottery judging by the way ...
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