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…
21/03/2021HARD 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…
15/11/2020Getting back up to speed
Getting back up to speed simulating an airways routing, followed by two ILS approaches into London Southend Airport on a relatively convective summer’s afternoon. We depart Stapleford in the DA40 IFR routing…
22/09/2019IFR on top
It’s quite a beautiful thing where you fly out of the airport environment, realise the weather isn’t exactly ideal for VFR flight and utilising an IMC rating, the dream of soaring above…
23/06/2019Early Morning IFR
An early morning IFR, and with good reason. A warm front extended from an area of low pressure situated almost 2,500 miles away, with some horrendous weather that would herald the start…
16/06/2019IFR Sortie #1
An extended video showcasing how I brief, fly and debrief an IFR flight; flying cross country to complete an RNAV, before diverting to fly and land on an ILS approach as I…
09/06/2019Single Pilot IFR & Cambridge RNAV
A feature length video sharing how I fly single pilot IFR exercising the privileges of an Instrument Rating (Restricted), concluding with an RNAV approach into Cambridge, landing on RWY 05. Single Pilot IFR is…
19/05/2019
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