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CPL Flight Day 54  

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PT4 - P1 U/S



I've passed! :) Dunno my marks though. But more importantly is PASS!!!

My flying hours still lack 40minutes so tomorrow will do an additional sortie to complete it. I think I will try for flying around the island anticlockwise.

No time to celebrate this yet as I still have to go for TE Sim. Type Tech for DA42 exam has been postponed too.

So more time to study.

Super tired now. Ciaoz!

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CPL Flight Day 53  

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PT3 - P1 U/S

Routing: WMKL - Kuah - K.Perlis - K.Kedah - Sala - Naka - Sik - Jeniang(Divertion point) - K.Ketil - Mahang - Pendang - Sala - K.Kedah - Kuah - WMKL

Total Flight Time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Endurance: 7hours

*Lesser words and more pictures*



Map.
Tracks are drawn, complete with Estimate Time Enroute (ETE), Minimun Safe Altitude (MSA).



Flight Plan.
To inform relevant Air Traffic Controllers (ATC) about our navigation sorties and the time they can expect us to arrive at their control zones.
One for ATC. One for Flight Ops. One for myself.




Navigation Log.
This is what we use in flight to jot down the setting course time, nav aids, ATIS, MSA, Fuel, bla bla bla..




Mass&Balance (also known as Load sheet).
Prepared on ground to check for CG position for Take-off and Landing.



METAR & TAF.
Got them one hour before flight. Updated every hourly.
Click here for more info.




Notam.
Notice to Airmen.
For more info, click here.



Radar Image (photostated).
Explained here.





CRP 5 & Douglas Protractor.
Lots of functions but mainly used for divertion, heading and time calculation.
Rarely use it in solo flight because two hands are just not enough to fly and do all these stuffs simultaneously. Mental calculation and thumb rules come in handy.




A photostated copy of Douglas Protractor with distance&time scale attached to it (using rubber band).
Makes my life so easy during divertion. Can measure track, distance and time much faster.
Highly recommended to all VFR pilots who are going to do nav sorties.




Jeppesen Charts.
Covering all the airfields nearby (eg: WMKL, WMKA, WMKP, WMKI). Very helpful in case of weather turns ugly and unable to visual with airfield.




Licence.
No licence, no fly. Simple as that.




**Anyway, I passed this PT with flying colours. 96%. ;)**
**Later at 1400hours local time, I will go for my last PT in single engine phase (PT4). Wish me luck!!**

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CPL Flight Day 41  

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I have done my PT2! Yeah, yesterday morning.

The "ordeal" lasted 1hour 12minutes in clouds, strong winds and turbulence.

My batchmate was in worse state. His VOR instrument went kaput while doing his PT2.

But anyway, both of us passed! ^^

Thank you very much to all who wished me luck! :)


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The night itself my batchmates and I went to Secret Recipe for Xmas countdown. We thought there wouldn't be any pub in KT.
One of my friends approached a few girls at the other tables to ask about Xmas countdown places.

Only 3 places. Damn.

This bar that we went to was quite....funny? It felt like a disco pub with the smokes and beers and loud music but we saw uncles and aunties, kids and babies, babes and hunks. Family pub?

It was full house at the time we reached there. One of the staffs lead us to an empty table around 10mins later. But he didn't realise there was another group of girls has booked the place long before we came.

Ah, we thought of leaving the pub already but one of the girls invited us to join them.

It's kinda scary to see that they were so naive and so easily trust guys whom they only met for less than an hour.

They can pass you their car keys and cellphones before going to washroom.

Or they can leave one of their friends who is drunk, with you, in a car.

To some of you who have never been to pub before, check your alcohol limit please.

Oh, did I mention that the girls were hot and yummy? :P

Merry Christmas everyone~!

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Flight Day 37  

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Ladies and gentlemen....


I have PASSED my PT1!!!! Hahahhahha!!! I yesterday night couldn't sleep much. The stress level was bloody high, you know. Each and every minute was like a year to me. I kept thinking of what kinda questions he was going to ask. And I was like doing thousands of mental flying already!

My batchmate who was also having the same examiner as me also passed this flying exam! Congrats to him too and congrats to me!! =D =D

As always, below is the summary of what I have done generally today in the training area for PT1.

Medium Turn - 180degress turn left and right.

Steep Turn - 360 degrees turn left and right.

Stall - Clean Stall, Dirty Stall (Landing Flaps configuration), Approach Configuration Stall (simulate downwind-base-final).

Instrument Flying - Climbing, Descending, Climbing Turn, Descending Turn.

PFL - at training area and overhead airfield.

Circuit - Flapless, glide, normal.



All these air exercises took an hour and a half to finish. So now my flying hours now is officially 39hours 50minutes. Although it's short of 2hours of 10 minutes to get my license according to the DCA, but the Chief Flying Instructor said that it's ok and I still can obtain the license. But I will have to use up the remaining hours in my CPL flying stage.

Now is relax time. What to do next? Sleep? Eat nice food? I think I should go wash my clothes first. No transport, I wanna go out to buy food also cannot. Sad case. Anyway, with this, I shall conclude that my PPL flying stage has finally come to an end and the next ground school stage (3 months) is coming soon. Real soon.

Next Monday: CA6

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