Night rating.

Its been a while since my last post, nearly six weeks to be exact and since then a lot has happened, the obvious one is Christmas and New Year so I hope everyone had a good one.

During November and December I managed to get my night flying rating done. The first couple of lessons involve getting over the wow factor, night flying is stunning, absolutely amazing. The real problems are height perception, interestingly once you are above 500' you could be at any height.

I sent my license off before christmas and it arrived this week while I was at work so I popped out at lunch today to pick it up. I couldn't see anything that mentioned night flying so rang the CAA.

Confused the poor guy on the phone as he normally deals with the engineering licenses. He asked around the office and it is a single sentance added the part 9 of the license. I felt a right berk, but also had a sense of pride when I read "The privileges of this license may be exercised at night"

Hopefully if/when the weather picks up I can get some more flying, I desperately want to go somewhere new and get some cicuits done and also just go somewhere.