- What do you think about the flight?
- To be honest, I think it was crap!. I know I could have flown more accuratly!
- Well, it's good you're not the decision maker then, because for me it's a pass. No issues at all, but we will discuss of the flight in the briefing room. I'll meet you there in 5 minutes.
That was the discussion between my examiner and I while I was refuelling.
The PT1 includes a navigation part, a diversion, some instruments simulated flight under the hood and some general handling...
The funny thing about this flight was my go around... I now have around 160 flying hours and this one was only my second one... Not because all my approaches are all the time spot on, but juste because it's still a hard decision to make, and I'd have thought specially during a flight test.
But yesterday, with the thermal activity of the paddocks on final it was hard to fly the correct profile and I didn't even think about it... I just went around.
When I was upwind after this go around I was pretty sure to get a partial for this flight because of this, but actually during the debriefing the instructor was almost happier of my go around than the other circuits I had flown.
Anyway, I passed this flight wich means that the single engine phase is finished. I'll continue to fly the Cessna for 6 more flights for the basic IFR training and then the twinstar DA42! I'm really look forward to it.
The end of the single engine phase also means the end of my challenge about the 30 airfield I had to land on... I failed it. I landed only on 22 of them. Three times the cloud base was not good enough to clear the terrain so I needed to divert from my initial route...
New aerodrome are going to be add to this map because I chose not to fly to certain aerodromes because I knew I would go there in Twinstar, so I prefered place I knew we wouldn't go on DA42. Either very narrow runways or grass runways...
Anyway, It was a great pleasure to flight VFR in this environement. I'm curently editing my last solo navigation video where I went to Great Barrier Island.