Making Time for Flying

After taking-off on 18 at Maroochydore, I wrote down our departure time and made a right-hand turn onto the heading which, given the forecas...

Before starting up in Goondiwindi for the last leg of Nav7 I didn't forget to turn the GPS logger back on, so this post will be illustr...

I landed at Goondiwindi at the conclusion of the second leg of Nav7  with an empty water bottle and a correlatively full bladder. Note to se...

Nav7 is the last solo nav before the PPL pre-test and test. Last chance to fix bad habits before it's too late. The plan was to go from ...

Relating what happened to me on Nav6 is going to take more than one post. It’s not that this flight was any longer than the previous ones. I...

Aviatrix just recently posted a story about towing airplanes with the hand brake on, and how this could result in a nasty flat patch on th...

The first leg of Nav5 took us from Redcliffe to Gold Coast through the Brisbane Class C airspace. I think I talked to more controllers in th...

Nav4 was my first solo nav. It was very enjoyable, very rewarding and, of course, amazingly quiet in the cockpit. I showed up at the club br...

One week after Nav3 was cut short due to weather , I went with Lee in VH-SPQ to cover the remaining bits, i.e. lost procedures and class D a...

Nav3 is a navigation exercise where the student pilot needs to convince the instructor of his ability to navigate solo in non-controlled air...