Birdseye

Having done the L1 exam I am now totally confused. I get an email confirming that I have passed, but with an attachment that tells me I have not???? In addition, half of the questions I got wrong were not the questions I actually answered.

If I interpret the intent of the exercise correctly, the aim is to educate people on where to look things up. It does do that quite well.

Sorry, I intended to say that I'd prefer dual sticks, but that's not a current option.

@Phil - I certainly couldn't fault Gordon or the operation, nothing but praise.

@Nev - I like to say that I am comfortably built :-) Flying dual we are close to MTOW, so I believe that its a combination of light airframe and very powerful controls that made things hard to start with. I am progressing though! Discounting a few hours on Chippies years ago, the lightest powered aircraft I flew was the Cherokee and that has to be one of the nicest and viceless aircraft to train on ever.

Centre stick is standard with yokes as a factory option. _Personally_ I would go for a centre stick, but that isn't an option.

Having at last had a hour when the wind wasn't gusting and the thermals weren't rising, it looks like 45 over the fence is optimum. Now if I can get this hold off and hold off thing going the aeroplane will be much happier.

Theory says that with a Vso of 32 a Vat of 41.6 is the go, but with a very light aeroplane in anything but flat calm, around 50 seems prudent. The last flight turned out a little interesting with developing gusty winds causing large variations of ASI and dictating a full stop.

Have to come to grips with the ergos and screen first. I'm more a 'six-pack' than a synthetic vision man. The centre stick and low left side throttle is also a bit of a challenge. Overall though a very nicely put together aeroplane, one that I'm hoping to put a few hours on over the next week.

Located just East of Perth. Currently getting to grips with a Foxbat.

Long time past ATC and PPL, with a dozen or years since a brief sojourn into gliding, now getting back into recreational aviating.