Making Time for Flying

The Australian PPL syllabus requires student pilots to have completed two hours of instrument flying before attempting the GFPT test. Instr...

Last Sunday I took my friend Marc for a flight around the training area. We followed a similar flight plan as for my first passenger Xuan a...

My blogging got a bit out of synch recently: the order of the posts no longer reflects the progression of my training. My last story was abo...

Last Saturday I passed the GFPT test, nearly one year after starting my flying training at the Redcliffe Aero Club . I won't talk about ...

Now that I have demonstrated sufficient proficiency in crosswind landings to be allowed to fly solo to the training area, I can get on with ...

Some absolutely awesome flying was had yesterday morning. At 6AM the windsock was showing a strong crosswind from the south, so I took off w...

Last Friday I went flying in the early afternoon. The cloud base was definitely above 1000ft, but wind was a concern. As usual when bad weat...

I went flying on Friday. Sort of. At lunchtime the reported wind in Redcliffe was 15 knots with a crosswind component of about 12 knots, muc...