Something interesting and different rarely occurs in the ground school students life, however, today was a little bit different
It seems that our resident BAe 146 codename "METMAN" suffered a hydraulics failure whilst doing his usual MET stuff in the air.
Luckily for him, his secondary hydraulics system was working fine so was able to land at Cranfield airport without incident. However, that didn't stop all the fire engines and air ambulances scrambling to assist.
Most exciting thing to happen in weeks.
Oh and the group ahead of us have finished their ground school, so that gives us only 2 months left!!!
Thursday 25 June 2009
Friday 12 June 2009
Just that little bit closer..
It just seems that Florida is that little bit closer.
Half the ground school is done, weather getting better. Plus our visa preparations are well underway. We are now registered as Alien Flight Students and our fingerprints were taken.
Seems fun, however, some people just can't give finger prints. Not that I have sweaty palms or anything, it is just that I can't seem to roll my finger properly within the small square (plus I think I bust my ring finger playing football the other day)
Then again, I would view someone who is a natural at finger printing with suspicion, if you know what I mean!.
Just 12 weeks to go!
Half the ground school is done, weather getting better. Plus our visa preparations are well underway. We are now registered as Alien Flight Students and our fingerprints were taken.
Seems fun, however, some people just can't give finger prints. Not that I have sweaty palms or anything, it is just that I can't seem to roll my finger properly within the small square (plus I think I bust my ring finger playing football the other day)
Then again, I would view someone who is a natural at finger printing with suspicion, if you know what I mean!.
Just 12 weeks to go!
Monday 8 June 2009
Half-way!!
As the title says, we are halfway through ground school. Block two exams all done. Although we have only done 5 exams out of the 14 required, the worst (debatable) is over.
Block three kicks off this week, topics include:
Flight Planning
Air Law
Principles of Flight
Mass and Balance
Radio Navigation
IFR and VFR Comms
Although it seems a lot, these are rather small subject. The two comms and Mass and Balance exams are a measly 20 questions each.
Flight Planning should get us to really apply our gen naviagtion and met knowledge into practise.
PofF is just maths, Radio Nav, erm, like instruments I guess
Air Law, well ........ZZzzzzz *hits head on desk*
Oh and here is a pic of Block 2 notes. Note the pound coin and the empty bottle!
Block three kicks off this week, topics include:
Flight Planning
Air Law
Principles of Flight
Mass and Balance
Radio Navigation
IFR and VFR Comms
Although it seems a lot, these are rather small subject. The two comms and Mass and Balance exams are a measly 20 questions each.
Flight Planning should get us to really apply our gen naviagtion and met knowledge into practise.
PofF is just maths, Radio Nav, erm, like instruments I guess
Air Law, well ........ZZzzzzz *hits head on desk*
Oh and here is a pic of Block 2 notes. Note the pound coin and the empty bottle!
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