I'm Back.

As some of you are aware, I have been on a short break from the flying at the moment, hence the lack of blog updates. I am however very pleased to announce that normal service can now resume and the blog posts will keep coming.


In case you were wondering, my short break consisted of a visit up to Treforest in Wales, to stay with a great mate of mine (Jack). The reason I'm writing about this fact is because Jack, much like myself, is a very keen young aviator and shares many of the same interests as me. Now, Jack attends the University Of South Wales and its Air Squadron and I was lucky enough to be invited up for the annual summer ball hosted at their operating base at RAF St. Athan. An interesting experience as I have never been to a UAS event and was extremely surprised to find that it was absolutely nothing like what I expected. I expected it to be much like the Air Cadet events that both Jack and I used to attend when we ourselves were in the Air Training Corps, but, as I mentioned, it was nothing like that.

Jack and I at the Sun 'n' Fun Airshow in Florida
2012

Once I get hold of Jack again I shall write another post all about the University Air Squadron with his help, but for now, the best thing I can say is; if any of you who are reading are pursuing a career in aviation and attend a university that has an air squadron. GO JOIN!



On to some more flight training, I have devised a time table that I aim to stick to for at least July that should give me around 32 hours over the month, putting me well on track for completion of the course by the end of my apprenticeship. I am very very pleased to tell you all that I have now flown the Robin solo, and took it for a wonderful local flight in the glorious weather we have been having recently also on my own.

route plan (SkyDemon)

As you can see here, the route I had chosen to take would give me about 45 minutes in the air. As the was a VFR (visual flight rules) flight I did not use any GPS equipment and had only my chart with me. It was a fantastic and pleasant flight and a real wonder to be able to do it by myself. For those that know about it it also gave me a unique perspective of operation stack.

 Here are the very few pictures I was able to take/have taken from my flight. I'm hoping soon to get the appropriate mount for my camera so as to capture some more in flight stuff as I go along. As it stands I now have over 15 flying hours of which 2 are solo.





Now that I have returned from my break, I shall be updating the blog as often as possible. For now, I need to get hold of Jack for you, I hear he is away volunteering with the UAS at Cosford. Also I am looking out for an aircraft of the month for July to cover for the end of the month.
Thank you all for reading, and sorry to have kept you waiting for this post.