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With spring around the corner and summer on the way, many of us will be jetting off to distant lands on holiday. therefore staying healthy when we tavel is of prime importance. With this in mind, you might like to take a look at some of my articles on how to remain healthy when you are flying on commercial airliners.
Take a look at the following:
How to Prevent Deep Vein Thrombosis on Flights
Minor Medical Problems During Airline Flights
How to Stay Healthy During Airline Flights
Jet Lag When Flying and How to Prevent it
Fear of Flying and How to Deal With it
I hope you find these articles helpful. If you do, feel free to let me know. If not...well, tell me what you'd like me to write about on Suite 101.
Happy holidays!
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As the credit crunch deepens, many people wonder how they can afford to learn to fly, or continue flying if they already have pilot's licences. I've written several articles which emphasise the financial side of flying, so you might like to take a look at ne or more of the following:-
Saving Money When Learning to Fly Light Aircraft talks about scholarships, finding the best flying school, and flying overseas. You might also want to unerstand how training and hire costs are calculated.
Flying a Microlight or Ultralight looks at cheaper types of aircraft. These might be the way forward for you.
If rotary flying attracts you, but you worry about the cost, take a look at Kit Built Helicopters
And if you're not sre which aircraft to learn on, and worry about how long it might take you, you might find Airplanes or Helicopters: Which is Easier to Fly useful.
Happy reading...and flying!
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it's been an interesting time recently in the aviation world. In particular, the recent successful ditching of an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River in New York proved conclusively, if we needed to, that commercial airliners can be landed successfully on water. I've actually written three articles about different aspects of that incident; see the following:
- New York Plane Crash: Airliner Ditches in River
- New York Airplane Ditching: How it Was Done
- The New York Airbus Crash: Little Known Facts
On a similar theme, you might also want to read the following:
Ad if that lot has really, really scared you, try this article:
However, yo might want to remind yourself that flying is still about the safest form of travel around. So enjoy reading these articles, but please don't worry unnecessarily.
Blue skies to you all till later...
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Finally the great day came! I had done all the required flying exercises, including my Qualifying Cross Country flight, in which I had to fly to two different airfields, landing at both, then back to my home base. I had passed all the ground exams. Now it was time for my final test, or Skills Test.
During the Skills Test I simply had to show the examiner that I knew how to fly. We went over all the different flight manoeuvres, then had a break, then he gave me a route and I had to plan it and fly it to prove that I knew how to navigate. it was made quite exciting in my case by the fact that someone picked just that time to have a minor accident on the runway. So we flew around for an extra half hour, waiting for them to clear the runway so that we could land.
Then...that was it. The examiner told me that I had passed!
So now I had a licence, but always remember - the PPL is merely a licence to learn.
So that's the end of this series. If you've been following it, you might enjoy the following articles on learning to fly:-
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As with everything else in aviation, the more you do the easier it gets. Soon I was finding navigation quite possible, though it never became easy. After a coule more cross-country flights with my instructor, I got to do my first solo cross-country flight. This as the highlight of my flying career. I t was a lovely sunny day, and I sat there, looking at the view, realising that soon I would be able to do this any time I wanted. It was wonderful.
Soon came more advanced flying exercises interspersed with the cross-country flying. Then I had to do a long cross-country flight on my own, landing at two other airfields. And soon - amazingly soon relaly - I ws ready for my final flight test, or Skills Test.
But that probably needs a blog post all to itself.
More next time....