Results Progress Checks

• Instrumentation: 63% (73% for the Multiple choice part, 53% for the open questions), next time better !


• Meteorology: 80%


• Basic Navigation: 75%

SFA on Channel Z

the movie from a few weeks ago, when Kanaal Z visited us @ SFA. Enjoy!

day 30 - 26 okt 2007

Hi,

after a nice but also intensive weekend with not a lot of sleep ("kadervormingsweekend", AFS -> workshops, seeing people back, 2 parties, ...), we started this week with flight planning and air law, in the evening revision of radio navigation for the courses of tuesday morning, general navigation in the afternoon, psychology and instrumentation on wednesday, Basic Flying Course briefing thursday morning, in the afternoon time to study Meteorology for the Progress Check of today. And then there was also Physio this morning. As you can read: a well - filled week with variation !!! The basic flying courses are actually practical courses, on a "normal" pc (with flight simulator 2004) but with a yoke, pedals and a throtthle panel. Sounds easy, but I think it won't be that easy (multitasking !). The briefing on thursday morning (7h30 AM - 1h20 PM) was an long and intensive one ... .

This weekend I'll be studying basic navigation, we have our first progress check about that on monday. Next week will be filled with basic navigation and communications, instrumentation and on thursday a day off. Looking forward to the schedule of november.

exhausted (but happy) greetings

Pieter

day 23 - 17 okt 2007 (updated)

Since last week, we have "flight planning". This week, we started to use a VFR chart, used for visual navigation (so using landmarks, but also VOR's, NDB's, DME's, ... at low altitudes). The chart we use is the ED-6 chart, which covers the southern part of Germany and of course also a part of Switserland, Austria and France. It is a very interesting course, given by an pilot of brussels airlines who loves the avro's :-). And what makes the courses the more interesting is that I know some places on the chart ! (I have a friend who used to study/live in Friedrichshafen and I visited her in march, just before my selection tests in april). So this is a special one for Melanie and Annika :-).

observationflight #01: LELC

only 1 word: GREAT ! Takeoff in Brussels on runway 02 (works in progress on 07R which is normally in use for takeoffs with easterly winds), good weather, no fog. Flight to Murcia was smooth and a nice visual landing afterwards on runway 05 in Murcia. 1hour between arrival and departure, takoff on 05 and afterwards landing on 02 again.

Conclusion: I'm quit impressed about the workload during takeoff and landing, communications etc. but it's very useful and it's realy motivating. The crew was also very friendly and kind to me, special thanks to captain B. Dierickx and first officer Roby !!!

some pics:





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LELC Murcia information
with OO-JAT

day 19 - 11 okt 2007

results Internal Progress Check basic radio: 80% :-)

day 17 - 09 okt 2007

results of the internal progress check DC (Direct Current, electrics and electronics): 75%. So that's ok :-) We're still waiting for the results of the basic radio test (that was our first test, also electrics and electronics).
My first observation flight will be this saturday, 13 october 2007, flight 6501 from jetair (BRU-MJV and back). Nice !
but first: this thursday (11 october 2007) test of instrumentation.