PPL and CPL

[benwynn]

Im looking to go Ardmore and do the NMIT DipAv, that way I can get it fully funded and some reasonably cheap onsite accommodation. Looks pretty good, still got a couple of years to go though.

[A185F]

QUOTE (MeGoFlying @ Jan 7 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What is the essential equipment to bring?

Your Brain. that's right up there on the important list.

QUOTE (MeGoFlying @ Jan 7 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you always train in the PA32?

A PA32 is somewhat of a machine (asside from its unfortunateness of being a piper) and you wont be training in one of those.

QUOTE (MeGoFlying @ Jan 7 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And my final question is a pretty stoopid one but, Could you liken flying to riding a bike? Its just doing it over and over again!!

Yes. Yes you can.

QUOTE (benwynn @ Jan 7 2009, 11:46 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Im looking to go Ardmore and do the NMIT DipAv, that way I can get it fully funded and some reasonably cheap onsite accommodation. Looks pretty good, still got a couple of years to go though.

Weren't you gonna do something in ozzy ? Why the change of heart ? Far more oportunities in oz fore newbies than nz once one has licences...

[benwynn]

I dropped out of Physics, I just cant do it. Really struggled with it, so I wont be able to do the course I want to do. I can always move back to Aus..

[A185F]

QUOTE (benwynn @ Jan 7 2009, 08:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I dropped out of Physics, I just cant do it. Really struggled with it, so I wont be able to do the course I want to do. I can always move back to Aus..

fair enough

[HercFeend]

Just got my final few results in, and in pretty good time for AST Mostly happy, thought FRTO went better, but often I found these exams to be a test of ones English comprehension as much as anything else!


22/12/08 PPL Meteorology Pass 90
18/12/08 FRTO Aeronautical Radio Telephone Practices Pass 80
18/12/08 PPL Technical Knowledge (Aeroplane) Pass 90
27/11/08 PPL Human Factors Pass 96
27/11/08 PPL Air Law Pass 97
03/11/08 CPL Flight Navigation General Pass 87
31/10/08 PPL Flight Navigation Pass 90


Right......lets get on with some flying!

[chopper_nut]

QUOTE (HercFeend @ Jan 13 2009, 02:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just got my final few results in, and in pretty good time for AST Mostly happy, thought FRTO went better, but often I found these exams to be a test of ones English comprehension as much as anything else!


22/12/08 PPL Meteorology Pass 90
18/12/08 FRTO Aeronautical Radio Telephone Practices Pass 80
18/12/08 PPL Technical Knowledge (Aeroplane) Pass 90
27/11/08 PPL Human Factors Pass 96
27/11/08 PPL Air Law Pass 97
03/11/08 CPL Flight Navigation General Pass 87
31/10/08 PPL Flight Navigation Pass 90


Right......lets get on with some flying!

Some good passes there man, especially on met and nav. Congrats. Yeh the wording in some of them is quite vague aye, I had one in CPL PofF that all four answers were correct. I wrote a big thing in the back about why, didnt make any difference

[danieljrm23]

QUOTE (benwynn @ Jan 7 2009, 08:29 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I dropped out of Physics, I just cant do it. Really struggled with it, so I wont be able to do the course I want to do. I can always move back to Aus..

I haven't finished my physics course yet, and I got accepted into the Februrary Intake for the Diploma course .

[MeGoFlying]

Hi Guys,

Just a quick question:

After you get your PPL, what is the next step if you wanted to get into an instructors role? Do you have to go through the IAANZ? or is there another way of doing it?

Cheers

[chopper_nut]

Nah, you can do it through any training organisation that supports it. Need to have a CPL and 150 hours PIC for a C-Cat I think. You also need to be really up there on the P of F side of things. Im doing mine at Motueka.

[A185F]

QUOTE (MeGoFlying @ Jan 11 2009, 09:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Do you have to go through the IAANZ? or is there another way of doing it?

Gosh I hope no one from there told you that... I will fly over and give them a quick slapping personally.

You need to get a commercial pilot licence. There are plenty of ways of doing that, go to an organisation SUCH AS iaanz, go to any aero club or find a good instructor and do it privately.

[HercFeend]

What a splendid way to spend a Tuesday evening - flying around for a couple of hours in the evening sun above Lake Ellesmere (next to Banks Peninsular) doing medium & steep turns, stalls and wing drops, reversal & constant radius turns and FLWOP.......... Most enjoyable

[pois0n]

QUOTE (HercFeend @ Jan 14 2009, 07:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What a splendid way to spend a Tuesday evening - flying around for a couple of hours in the evening sun above Lake Ellesmere (next to Banks Peninsular) doing medium & steep turns, stalls and wing drops, reversal & constant radius turns and FLWOP.......... Most enjoyable

Just wait till you get to do their cross country 2 solo

[HercFeend]

QUOTE (pois0n @ Jan 14 2009, 03:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Just wait till you get to do their cross country 2 solo

What's the route, I might do it post PPL? I won't be required to do it before my PPL as I have the required XC hours (duel & solo) already but it's good to know interesting routes around the area.

[pois0n]

QUOTE (HercFeend @ Jan 15 2009, 08:10 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What's the route, I might do it post PPL? I won't be required to do it before my PPL as I have the required XC hours (duel & solo) already but it's good to know interesting routes around the area.

CH-AS-Lake Coleridge-Lees Valley-Hawarden-RT-CH


Though if you dont need to do it, then theres far better ones you can do post PPL

In by Lake Clearwater/Mesopotamia and over to Franz Josef/Haast or into the McKenzie Basin

[Michael]

I have a question,

What is stall practice like? Did it scare you some what?

[HercFeend]

QUOTE (Michael @ Jan 19 2009, 12:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have a question,

What is stall practice like? Did it scare you some what?

It's nothing at all to worry about. Very important part of one's training but enjoyable at the same time. I did wing drop stalls for the first time last week (never done them before as they're not part of the JAR PPL in the UK) - it was different - a little underwhelming actually :/

[HardCorePawn]

Contrary to popular belief, when you stall, the aircraft doesn't just drop straight down like a brick... and you don't plummet earthwards at a huge rate. In fact, once you learn the proper technique... you can stall recover with very minimal altitude loss... as in ten's of feet.

Basic and Power-on Stalls are generally pretty benign in most training aircraft (ie C-152's, C-172's, Cherokees etc.)... as the aircraft were designed to be fairly gentle. In some instances, you actually have to induce a wing-drop by purposely 'mishandling' the aircraft... eg. kicking in a boot load of rudder at the stall

Personally I think wing-drop stalls are fun... the view goes something like this: blue, blue, blue, blue, blue, GREEN!

Although having since done some aero's, the wing-drop stalls seem pretty tame in comparison now.

[Michael]

Hehe cheers guys. I can watch aeroplane crash investigations all day and not be the slightest bit worried when I jump in a plane, but stalls get me for some reason. My brain imaginations over dramatizes them to be like nose dives or something

[ardypilot]

Michael, FYI, here's what an aerobatic wingover manever looks like- lots of fun actually:


By the way, I received my Class 1 med cert. in the mail today- yay!

[pois0n]

QUOTE (HercFeend @ Jan 19 2009, 07:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's nothing at all to worry about. Very important part of one's training but enjoyable at the same time. I did wing drop stalls for the first time last week (never done them before as they're not part of the JAR PPL in the UK) - it was different - a little underwhelming actually :/

Are you doing your training in the tomahawks or cherokees?

Ask to do some wingdrop stalling in DUP!