Author: Callum Learns to Fly

A little later than planned on releasing this blog entry... With 9 months to the day gone since the last time I flew, I knew it would be like the first time I flew all over again! Except this time I knew what I was doing, I knew what to expect and I had experience … Continue reading 9 Months Out, Back in the Left Hand Seat

Continuing on from my previous lesson we went back out to the aircraft and completed a quick walk-around, checking the fuel, oil and to make sure the aircraft hadn't accrued any damage on the previous flight, despite flying the aircraft about 30-40 minutes prior, the checklist was followed to the letter to make sure nothing … Continue reading 1st Exam, Double Lesson & Circuits – Part 2

First lesson of the new year - lets just say things didn't go quite as well as we had hoped! I got a phone call quite early in the day asking me to come in earlier for my lesson as the weather was going to play a massive part in the days flying schedule. Having … Continue reading Lesson 5 – Stuck in a Rut!

This lesson was postponed, due to the weather, on my original day and was moved to the next day, which brought better weather compared to the previous day. It was an early morning slot so the airfield and airspace was quite quiet which is very nice for a student pilot. I arrived in to the … Continue reading Lesson 4 – Turns and Stalling

A quick and short blog post today about how I go about recording the audio and voice on my flights. I decided to record my flights so I can use them for reviewing my previous lesson and so that I can learn from them. When you're flying, you're concentrating on keeping the plane in trim, … Continue reading My Current Flight Recording Set-up

I was awoken Saturday morning by my flight school calling me -  a mix of emotions went through my mind in that split second before I answered the phone - luckily it was to reschedule it to a slightly earlier time of 11:30 instead of the original planned time of 12:00. This was to make … Continue reading Third Lesson – Climbing and Descending

First - apologies for this post being a day late, this is due to the fact I didn't have the time to get it written up because of a family get together. I'll always try to get a post written up over the weekend and post it on one of the two days, unless my … Continue reading My Second Lesson

As I mentioned in my previous post, I sadly had to re-arrange my first proper lesson due to the low cloud and visibility - much to my annoyance the day before and the day after were both really good days - the new lesson was booked for Tuesday afternoon. Having woken up and checked the … Continue reading My First Proper Lesson!