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First solo: Jay

A little bit of good news recently: my student Jay made his first solo flight a little while ago, and I didn’t write about it yet.

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics

One of the secrets of flight training is that a lot of people who start training never get to finish it. In one sense it’s a secret, in that you don’t read or hear about it. On the other hand, a bit of thought should persuade you that it’s entirely human and to be expected.

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When is a SPECI issued?

PILOTS AND Students will all know that an aerodrome with weather reporting publishes terminal conditions called a METAR every hour, giving information including wind speed, ground visibility, cloud ceiling, temperature and dewpoint and altimeter setting. But the weather can change significantly over the course of an hour and if it does a “SPECI” is a… Read more »

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First solo: Carlos

ANOTHER milestone for another great student – we wish congratulations to Carlos on his first solo quite recently. Carlos has been Ivan’s student all the way from when he started back in June, and his solo was on his twelfth lesson, and eighteenth flight, when he took to the skies alone, for the first time…. Read more »