Another two down.

I've spent the last couple of days are the Ground School at Gamston and managed to complete another two exams, Human Performance & Limitations and Navigation & Radio Aids, that means I have four remaining:

• Meteorology
• Aircraft (General) & Principles of Flight
• Flight Performance & Planning (including Mass & Balance)
• Radio-telephony Communications

I made some school boy errors on the Nav paper, but still managed to pass. If you take the exam, its pretty straight forward, but make sure you read the questions, some might appear as trick, but they are not. The paper is based around a flight plan, spend time doing it and make sure it is correct, otherwise you may as well give up there and then.

The Human Performance and Limitations exam is very straight forward and I managed to get 100%, if you know any basic biology then you should have no real problems passing it.

I've got another lesson booked tomorrow night in the Slinger, which should be fun. Doing a Nav exercise, with some fun tagged on the end, I'm hopefully going to learn to do a wing over.

I'm aiming to have my license by early August, so have booked three lessons next week, two of which are Nav based and one for a little fun, Spinning in a Cessna. The following week I have three days off to complete the ground school and finish the remaining exams. Early the following week I should be taking the Radio Practical and then onto the skills test. Fingers crossed.

One thing that the tutor and the ground school was saying yesterday when we were havinga natter, he bought a plane a number of years ago and told his wife at the time that he doesn't take passengers and she would have to go and take a Radio License so she could legally operate the radio in his plane. I like the idea of that, so Sue, if you are reading this then....