Let's give this a go...



Yes, they do trust me!

 Right, as the title says, let's give this a go. To cut a long story short, I am flying this year and in May I managed to get my Private Pilot's Licence, and am now working towards my Commercial Licence (CPL). What's the difference, you ask?  Well, once I get my CPL, I can charge you for the joyrides that I now provide for free....
I thought I might blog about my flights and experiences in getting my CPL, mostly because I am bored, but also because Pye has a cool blog and I want one too!
The plan is to build up some hours flying Cross Country in either the Cessna-152 or Piper-Cherokee, both of which I am now rated to fly. Once I have sufficient hours, I do a CPL Cross Country test, and then continue flying until I have clocked up around 200 hours, when I do my CPL flight test. Hopefully in the next couple of months, although as you will see once you start avidly reading my blog, hours are not easy to come by...

Let's start with this week - I had a cross country on Monday booked in MUM (the planes are named MUM, DAD, PQP, NAN and SIS!). The weather inland closed in, so my plan of heading to Taupo or further afield didn't work, but I took my new brother-in-law, Charles, for a flight down to Whakatane and around the coast a bit. (He isn't really a new brother-in-law, just one that I haven't met before!)  I think he quite enjoyed it, and although we didn't get very far, it was good getting a flight in while the weather was OK.

I was also meant to fly today and take the aforementioned Pye for a flight, but the plane is without a propeller which, I learnt in my Air-Tech classes, is a vital part of the engine-thingy.  So no flying today. I have a flight booked tomorrow in PQP, but as I write the weather is closing in, so who knows....

I apologise for the lack of jokes and sexual innuendo in this initial blog, but I am merely experimenting, and you can be sure that things will get more interesting as we go on and my army of readers grows by the minute.