Reply With QuoteIf you have an engine failure at night and need to make a forced landing when you get to 50ft AGL turn on the landing light.
If you don't like what you see turn it off.
Just started my PPL process.
What's the best advice you were given when learning?
If you have an engine failure at night and need to make a forced landing when you get to 50ft AGL turn on the landing light.
If you don't like what you see turn it off.
Lol!Originally Posted by magpie215
But in seriousness
Fly as often as you can big gaps means you keep having to go over things adding to the costs.
Never pay up front.schools fold all the time.
Weather is the enemy you will get scrubs often in the u.k
Cheers. Particularly point two.
This. I've been learning to fly gliders but I've been very stop start which has hindered my progress.
Take off is optional, landing is mandatory!
One bit of advice that stuck with me all the years was told to me by my instructor as he got out of the cockpit on my first solo. He was a very experienced old lightning pilot. As he got out he said “Remember Christian, D.F.U.” I looked at him puzzled and he said “Don’t F*** Up” and laughed as he closed the canopy.
When your instructor tells you you're ready for your first solo, you won't agree, but do it anyway. He knows better than you.
Have fun! It's a great experience, all of it. I heard some students say they enjoyed the lessons and learning more than what came after they got their PPL. It is a wonderful achievement to gain a PPL.
Good luck.
Where are you learning, out of interest?
It is always better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground.
Before I went solo it had been a normal dual lesson in the circuit with a random efato thrown in.
After about 3 or 4 dual circuits, we landed and taxied off the runway to a taxiway holding point near the control tower.
My instructor then said "right go and do a circuit on your own. I'm off to the tower to watch....try not to bend it"
I remember my father a RAF pilots advice to me:
pull back on stick, houses smaller....
push forward on stick, houses get bigger.
I got my PPL back in 1995 and loved every flight I ever had.
Did about 450 hours as P1,but probably closer to 1500 hrs with a friend who had his own Tobago TB10 which I flew right seat most flights.Also flew a lot in IMC which I was particulary good at having bought the full Elite simulator.
Dont fly anymore infact October 2004 was my last log book entry.Missed it for a good while,but now just some great memories of me taking friends and family all over the UK to fly-ins etc.
Just enjoy it all....
Great advice chaps. Thank you.
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When you're learning to fly if you don't get on with your instructor don't be afraid to change, you'll learn faster and more enjoyably with someone you get on with.
Continuity is vital to save time and skill fade.
Actual stick skills are the easy bit, freeing up some capacity to do all the other airmanship stuff is harder.
If you really want a challenge (and fancy bankrupting yourself) try learning to fly helicopters
Nevermind what they tell you in training these are the real 4 forces of flight:
For FAA read CAA
Ahh the Campaign Against AviationNevermind what they tell you in training these are the real 4 forces of flight:
For FAA read CAA
Nevermind what they tell you in training these are the real 4 forces of flight:
For FAA read CAA
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LOL.
There's nothing as useless as runway behind you and airspace above you!
and
Don’t get busy — When something out of the ordinary happens and you find yourself moving eight miles a minute while your brain isn't keeping up, chances are you are moving too fast. You could find yourself making a survivable situation much worse.
Don’t get smart — When you think you have this thing we call aviation mastered, you need to rethink how you think. There are times you need to go 'off script' when dealing with a problem in the air, but these times are quite rare.
Do things for a reason (No reason = no action) — When you've come to the end of a published emergency procedure and think you have a way to improve what others have devised, you might be right. But more likely than not, you are becoming a test pilot in non-test pilot conditions.
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