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Sunday October 11th, 2020 | 2 minutes read

PPL training - Landings 4

The next lesson on the plan was more landings, but this time on a different airport. The plan was to fly to Stord Lufthamn, Sørstokken, and then do a lot of touch and go there. This meant that I got to make my first navigation plan/log!
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Monday October 5th, 2020 | 3 minutes read

PPL training - Preparation and stage check basic maneuvers

After five cancellations (due to clouds, rain, fog, wind, and heavy turbulence), it was finally time to head down to Sola to do the first stage check.
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Monday September 28th, 2020 | 2 minutes read

PPL training - Landings 3

Less than ideal weather conditions still made it difficult to continue on the lesson plan. So we continued, for the third time, with pattern work while waiting for weather that was good enough for the stage check.
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Wednesday September 23rd, 2020 | 2 minutes read

PPL training - Landings 2

Less than ideal weather conditions still made it difficult to continue on the lesson plan. So we continued with pattern work while waiting for weather that was good enough for the stage check.
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Thursday September 17th, 2020 | 2 minutes read

PPL training - Landings 1

Less than ideal weather conditions made it difficult to continue on the lesson plan. The next on the plan was a stage check, which we had to fly down to Sola to do. Since we couldn’t do that, we skipped ahead a bit and continued with my first pattern work lesson.
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Thursday September 10th, 2020 | 1 minute read

PPL training - Basic maneuvers 5

Almost a month since the previous lesson, but that was mainly due to my three week vacation in August/September. It felt great getting back to the airport (after yet another cancellation due to weather). The weather wasn’t amazing this day either, but it was good enough for the maneuvers we were going to do.
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Saturday August 15th, 2020 | 2 minutes read

Norsk Luftfartsmuseum

We visited this museum as a part of our 2020-vacation. The museum was way better than we had expected, and include pretty much anything related to aviation.
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Wednesday August 12th, 2020 | 2 minutes read

PPL training - Basic maneuvers 4

The first attempt at this lesson was cancelled due to IMC, so it was nice to see clear skies above the airport! The main focus for this lesson was steep turns, slow flight, stalls, and the usual maneuvers including a new one: turns around a point
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Tuesday August 4th, 2020 | 2 minutes read

PPL training - Basic maneuvers 3

With the limited opening hours, I have to take whatever flight lessons I can. We didn’t know if the weather would be good enough when we booked this the day before, but the ceiling ended up being high enough for what we needed.
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Friday July 31st, 2020 | 3 minutes read

PPL training - Basic maneuvers 2

A thing you’ll learn quickly when starting with flight training, is to expect cancellations. The first attempt at this lesson was cancelled due to low clouds and rain. We got clear skies and very little wind for the next attempt, so can’t really complain too much about this one!