THE PPL Test.

I felt I should mention that I took my pilots test today, after all the last 2 months had been building up to it. I was cacking myself before hand feeling that I wasn’t quite ready, my first Solo Navigation exercise had been a disaster (I got a wee bit lost…) and the second one even worse. 9 I miss read the protractor whilest working out my bearing sending myself in completely the wrong direction, so I wasn’t feeling too confident. Also the
plane that I had done all of my flying in was out of action so I had to do my test in a completely new plane, a low wing Technam Sierra P2002. A cool looking machine but it possessed completely different flying characteristics.

My Apprehension was not well founded. My flying was superb, ( not saying that my self, my marks were very good.) Everything seemed to just fall into place it was sweet.

So with one day to go I passed my PPL with No major mishaps during the 4 hour test ( well ok may one – Planed the plane on all three wheels with a hard thud on landing after a ridiculously low approach where I almost took out the landing approach lights with my under carriage… But apart from that my navigation, upper air airwork (including stalls and spins) were excellent. So Well done me. I am now officially a pilot.