Learning to fly didn’t come easily to me. I was not a quick learner and took more than the average amount of hours to reach each milestone. I consoled myself with the thought that people who take longer to learn things learn them more deeply. I wasn’t particularly confident either.Continue Reading
In this post I’m going to list ten apps for pilots. I say list rather than review since I have not downloaded these and tried each one. The best and obvious way to determine if an app suits your need is to download the free trial and see for yourself.Continue Reading
Learning to fly and obtaining a Private Pilot’s Licence isn’t cheap but you can avoid unnecessary expense with a little forward planning. Flying lesson costs will vary but in the long run the cheaper hourly rate may not be your best option. In this post I discuss the cost of obtaining aContinue Reading
For some students the prospect of studying the PPL Ground School subjects is just as daunting as learning to fly itself. Perhaps you were not top of the class in Maths or English. Maybe you doubt your own abilities, or is it the thought of speaking on the radio thatContinue Reading
In a previous post I described my journey from the first trial flight through to PPL completion. Whether, like me, it took you several years or just a few months to obtain your own PPL what are you going to do now that you have your pilot’s licence? The post PPLContinue Reading
For some the path from a trial flight to the acquisition of a Private Pilots Licence is one that takes only a few months to complete, but for me it was to last a little longer. My first taste of flying was as a child in the 1960s. My father had hiredContinue Reading
In July 2015 the aerospace giant Boeing predicted that the world would need 558,000 new pilots during the next twenty years. If this forecast for half a million pilots jobs is correct (and they should know, being Boeing) then there has never been a better time to [easyazon_link identifier=”B008J6GYF2″ locale=”UK”Continue Reading
