First flight as a licenced pilot post ppl
24 Jun 2006First flight as a PPL holder, it also happened to be the day my licence arrived. My godparents who had helped me out a with some of the flying lessons, were planning on coming down for the evening anyway and when my PPL arrived in the post, I decided that I would phone the airport to find out if the plane would be free, luckily it was.
So at about 6pm I went up to the airport and got ready to go flying, taking my godfather as my first ever passenger. We needed some fuel, so I taxied us to the pumps, and had the aircraft filled fully, we then taxied for departure from the pumps, took off and headed down towards Looe in near perfect conditions (it was a little hazy though and the sun was getting lower in the sky all the time)
Once we got to Looe, I set heading for Holsworthy, we got there about a minute early from what I’d planned, and then we carried on a bit further north to take some pictures of a house, then came back over the top of Holsworthy, before flying back down to Plymouth, and landed quite nicely despite hardly being able to see the runway on the approach because the sun was right in my face! Taxied back in and shut down, the flight was almost exactly an hour.