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Class Rating Instructor Course and Skill Test | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. Class Rating Instructor Course and Skill Test. January 20, 2016. I passed the CRI (Class Rating Instructor) skill test today. Read on to find out what that entitles me to do, and what was involved in gaining the rating. What is a Class Rating Instructor and what can they do? And a CRI can receive payment for instruction. Here’s a comparison table of the key attributes between the EASA FI and CRI ratings. 200 hours total time.
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Licencing | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. Trying to keep track of and understand the different rules and regulations about pilot licencing can be quite difficult. So I’ve written up some notes on my understanding of some common issues in the hope that this will be of help to others. The usual disclaimers apply – do your own research and don’t rely on anything written here as accurate, up-to-date or complete. How EASA FCL affects a JAR-PPL Private Pilot. Do you know if t...
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IFR Ferry Flight from Coventry to Gloucester | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. IFR Ferry Flight from Coventry to Gloucester. February 5, 2017. Thin cloud layer near Coventry. Cruise Flight at 2000 feet above the cloud. Shortly I was able to climb up through the cloud layer and enjoy the sunshine in glorious VMC on top at 2000 feet. The flight was going OK, my cruise checks reported everything was in order and I couldn’t see a problem. Safely parked up at Gloucester. I think this may have been the first tim...
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. February 18, 2017. Low Cloud but warm and (not too) windy. Low cloudbase of 900 feet (broken 600) at Gloucester meant there was very little activity. It was forecast to clear during the afternoon, and the weather looked better to the west, so I picked on Caernarfon as a destination for a day trip in the TB20. Dave, who I’ve flown with at Lyneham came along for the ride. Scattered Cloud in Wales. The ol...
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Meet the Parents – Beach trip to Caernarfon | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. Meet the Parents – Beach trip to Caernarfon. June 20, 2014. Gloucester to Coventry (Outbound). Hazy/Cloudy enroute to Coventry. Coventry to Caernarfon (Outbound). The GPS signal dropped out near Kidderminster. We briefly routed north west after departure, directly towards the Birmingham CTR, specifically to fly overhead Warwick University, then turned south west and kept below 1500 feet to remain clear of controlled airspace, av...
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Project Propeller return flight to Guernsey | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. Project Propeller return flight to Guernsey. June 21, 2014. Is an annual gathering of remaining World War 2 aircrew (friend and foe), flown into an airport by current pilots. Often these passengers take an active role in the flight, either navigating and/or piloting. Mostly male, there are a few women pilots who were involved in tasks such as delivering aircraft from the factory during the war. Bacon butties on offer from the BBQ.
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Inverness and Wick | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. May 2, 2016. I planned a long Bank Holiday weekend in Northern Scotland, visiting two different sets of friends near Inverness and Wick. Both were separately happy with the idea of a local flight in return for board and lodging. My wife was interested in coming along too, so I booked our TB20 at Gloucester and kept a close eye on the weather forecast. I filed IFR direct to Inverness at FL100 using the marvellous Autorouter.
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2016 Summary | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. December 31, 2016. It’s been a very busy and varied year’s flying, achieving the most annual hours so far partly due to my CRI ( Class Rating Instructor. Role opening up some new opportunities. Again the highlight of the year was a week’s flying holiday in California USA. And France. My involvement with the Bristol Aero Club. My objectives from the end of last year. 1: Mentoring others to fly further. Completing the CRI course.
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West Wales business trip | flyerdavid
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Ramblings of a newly qualified PPL pilot in the UK. Skip to primary content. West Wales business trip. January 31, 2017. Mixing Business with Pleasure. Gloucester (EGBJ) to Aberporth (EGFA). While I could see the ground at all times, visibility was more limited in some directions but I was able to pick out the runway very easily and had plenty of time to compensate for the crosswind to make quite a decent landing. I appeared to be the only movement onsite that morning. Aberporth (EGFA) to Llanbedr (EGFD).
