flightygirl

sounds awesome! i was also flying about today (lets face it...what day am i not flying!) went off to do more area solo work. i need 10 hours solo to be eligible to go for my passenger endorsement when i do my flying test next week. can you believe that after flying about for and hour and a half today i added up my solo time... and it came to 9.9 hours! if only i had stayed up there for a few more minutes!

just means i will have to go back up again all by myself.... hmmm... i think i can manage that! really enjoyed flying about today.... was lovely tracking up and down the coast.

plenty of traffic up there today also... good practice listening to where everyone is and figuring out how to rejoin the circuit. not so scary any more. just takes concentration.

look forward to hearing how you go on tuesday.

have fun!

Rach

or i could do a few hours in the savvy @ moruya and take you for a fly in your savvy... hahah

didnt see the sharks eating the whales did ya??

Rach

Well done Rach you finally did it... Congrats, guess you wont have to worry so much anymore. One day will have to make a flight to Bathurst and me to your airport. Dave

flew to moruya today. did all the navigation for the trip and got us there only 3 minutes behind schedule. not bad for a first go. flew in company with guys from Jaspers Brush on the way back. saw some whales! gotta love flying!

Rach

great pics dave! looked like a nice calm day out there!

keep up the good work!

happy flying!!!

Rach

well done pradeep! best feeling ever! did mine a month ago and still smiling over it. happy flying! Rach

Way to go Rach. Exellent news. Keep up the good work. ps. I will track down that missing scotch, its my new mission in life.

going to do more solo circuits and area work over this weekend.

cant believe there was a time i thought i would never get the hang of flying. its a doddle!

as for the missing scotch... i dont care...thats stuffs yuck. (Rob says its a bottle of Grants and if you find it its yours).

Rach

today i finally did my area solo. its been the last final frontier that i have had to overcome... that final hurdle.. and while i was given the ok to go and do my area solo and had done plenty of familiarisation with the training area weeks ago, i just could not bring myself to fly away from the circuit... until today.

after doing a couple of crosswind circuits solo i made the decision then and there that if i didnt do it now i never would. so i made my call to depart the circuit on crosswind and just kept on going! i climbed to 3000 feet and once in the training area decided i may as well make the most of it and did some stalls and steep turns. after what felt like ages (but turned out to be about 20 minutes) i began my descent and return to the airport... not hard to find.. keep the ocean on my right.

made my calls and joined the circuit on downwind without drama. joining the circuit has been the big fear for me... trying to keep up with where everyone else is and who's doing what... then negotiating my way in amongst all that. turned out i was the only one anywhere and so joined the circuit without having to deal with all of that.

so now its just sit the BAK... and do the flying test... almost there!

today was the first day i really felt like a pilot.

Rach

Savvy

Hey Dave...

im a total savvy convert now... i love my savvy... and no longer find them ugly. well not mine at least :thumb_up:

Not ugly Rachel functional and practical Dave

So are all the other ra's like this (lightwing, savannah etc)?

speaking from a students perspective... who started in a Jab... with a bit of tecnam thrown in for good measure..and now training in a savannah... i found the Jab the hardest to learn in. The savannah almost flies itself and is very stable. a lot less work to do in the savvy...no flaps to put down... unless you want to... and it just seems to want to glide right onto the runway. I found the Jab very hard to fly and ended up with a tendency to over control everything.

Having said that... i do plan to get used to flying the Jab again... i think it will be important as i will develop skills that i wouldnt get flying the savannah. still like the savvy better though.

sorry Jab people.... she may be ugly... but she flies so much nicer!

hi dave.

sounds like perfect circuit weather. i know we have to learn in crosswinds... but its nice to have the luxury of little or no wind just to get a real feel for landing before tackling the crosswinds. im now up to tweeking any minor errors i make... such as putting the nose wheel down too quickly. i am also trying to become more familiar with joining the circuit from outside... its a little tricky sometimes i have found! getting my calls pretty right now... still a few silly errors that make me giggle.... its all good fun. i keep feeling an urge to make my circuit calls like yoda... but others may not find that as funny as me.... turning downwind i am.... touch and go i will... entering and rolling i am... upwind departure it is... sounds funnier when you say it... hehehhe

only real thing holding me back from my licence is the area solo! just cant bring myself to fly away by myself! will do it this weekend if weather is good.

Rach

RTFQ = Read the F...... question!! haha.

good on you dave...sounds like your having a blast up there!

Rach

frankly i am horrified at some of the irresponsible comments being made on here about flying an unservicable aircraft. as a new person to the sport i would hope that those with far more experience and skills than me would be making comments that reflect common sense and responsibility. I have sat back reading the comments and have decided enough is enough. As a newbie i ask those of you who are saying it was an ok decision to ask yourselves would you be saying the same thing to a student, or to the family of the deceased pilot who didnt land safely, or to the witnesses of the incident.

As far as i am concerned an unservicable aircraft is an unservicable aircraft. its that simple. lets set the standard high rather than low for the students on this forum who look to the more experienced pilots for responsible comment on here.

thanks

apparently... i have to keep the nose wheel up a bit longer on landing... picky bloody instructor! heheheehe

thats excellent! great feeling. what till you feel the "Click"!

Rach

hey blackrod

thanks for the advice.. re google. i am a bit familiar with the area and its not too hard because i have an ocean on one side... so as long as i can spot that i can figure out where i am.

forgive my ignorance... but what is RTFQ?

Rach

hopefully i will be up there completing my last hour of solo circuits on friday... then its fly to the training area by myself... scary... and find my way back... then bak test...then flying test... done. not long now!

good on you dave. enjoy your circuits.... you're gonna do a load of em!

noice!

Hi Rachael and Rob,Bill is up at NorFly out of Monto for the weekend so I am replying to your great flying effort. Just keep flying and practicing and you will be a wizz in no time. Sorry to say I told you so when you were up here - but see it will and does come to you - this flying solo.

 

Wish I could still do it but I will wait for the new training plane to arrive and see how my confidence is and perhaps I can do it again.

 

 

Love to you both

 

Jenni

Rach xxx

today i managed to get in an hour and half of solo circuits. this morning the wind was approximately 9 knots straight down the runway. not too bad but a little gusty on final. I was doing fine until i ended up behind some guy in a cessna flying like he was in a jumbo. so my nice safe circuits were turned into short cross country's. not happy. After trying to focus and just deal with the situation i decided i needed to get down and take a break as i found i was just becoming more and more annoyed at the ridiculous circuits of the guy in front.

after completing precautionary search and landings in the training area for an hour later in the day i returned to the airport and took a quick break before going up again to brave some more circuits. this time no one in the circuit doing stupid ciruits... so i was free to relax and enjoy the last hour of the day building my confidence and watching my poor instructor waiting patiently for me on the ground each touch and go.

in total now i have completed 2.3 hours of solo and will hopefully have the rest knocked over tomorrow. then its sit the BAK exam and have the flight test and i have done it! i cannot believe how great this feels!

Rach

Well Done Rach, on the Solo and solo's more!Great Video to, what sort of camera are you using. I bought one to stick on the front of my helmet, works OK, however think I need a Hi Res version as it doesn't seem to be as clear as your's.

 

Hope you get some nice weather today! Near Tyabb at z mo and it looks socked in, seems standard for down here this time of year! Have a Great Day!

weather is looking perfect for more solo work. yay!

more solo circuits today.... finally!

After some bumpy crosswind circuits with my instructor on board, and some severe loss of confidence, i was beginning to think i would never get back up there on my own. but later in the afternoon the wind finally dropped and so we decided to go up for some more circuits to restore my confidence and get back in the groove.

after three circuits i radioed a full stop and when rob asked if i had had enough i told him no... he was getting out... and thats exactly what happened.

off i went... all by myself.. and this time i was not freaking out or sqealing at myself. instead it felt good... like i'd been doing this for ages. and so i did five wonderful circuits (video of the touch and go's is coming) and only had to stop because the sun went down too far and the light faded too much. bugger.

anyway... my confidence restored, i cant wait to get back out there again tomorrow and have some more solo time. such a great feeling!

Rach

my mistake... but hey...still come and say hi anyway flying dog!

hey flying dog... easiest way is to come and say hi next time your down in wollongong. Rob(ultralights) and i are always down there mucking about with our savvy. just come say hi!

Rach