Perfect Timing
In all my years flying, I’ve never come across anything more perfectly timed than this flight. In fact, it was recently passing the IR exams that allowed such a high fidelity of…
11/04/2021Intense Frontal IFR
I learned more in this one flight than any of all the IFR flights I’ve ever undertaken. A flight that pushes the limit of what one can do with the IR(R). If…
21/03/2021Between the fronts
One of those perfectly timed flights in the late afternoon during sunset, flying between an occluded front and a cold front with perfectly clear skies but lots of turbulence and changeable winds.…
28/02/2021Misty Oxford
Fog delays our departure! As conditions improve we depart for Oxford, however as we get airborne we realised, it was a good choice to delay. The visibility was awful and I conduct…
07/02/2021Oxford NDB Unserviceable
I take a fellow airman flying in a fixed-wing aircraft, and whilst it was hoped to fly an NDB approach for a change, unfortunately, on this day it was unserviceable. Absolute sod’s…
17/01/2021FL70 back to London
Despite not reaching the heights of the full Instrument Rating in 2020, I managed to reach FL70 at least once, and with that in the bag, some beautiful views prevailed. And finally,…
28/12/2020HARD IMC & TURBULENCE
IFR flight to Exeter in September through an Occluded front; with an extremely turbulent departure from Stapleford and some hard IMC. Was the Continuous Descent Approach a Fluke? 😉 And finally, the…
13/12/2020Literally flew itself
Longer flights and automation just became a lot easier. Simply entering data into the GTN650XI and enabling AUTO CRS & GPS Roll Steering (GPSS) enabled this flight as automatic from Bembridge to…
29/11/2020IAPs at Southampton
Probably for the first time in many many years, General Aviation is welcomed back to Southampton International Airport. After completing 2x IAPs at Southampton a surprise is in store for a first-time…
15/11/2020Cardiff through the occluded front!
After cancelling my weekend trip to Cardiff the week before due to Severe Thunderstorms, we get to fly a quick day trip for lunch. Due to a weak occluded front, we have…
25/10/2020
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