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| Date | 09-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Friday 1640) Back home for the weekend and it feels great. We had the Christmas party yesterday, where we made some good food and entertainment. We had great fun and drank a beer or two together... Then today we had an easy programme and finished off early. Catch you in the weekend. /GEA |
| Date | 07-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Wednesday 0935) Meteorology exam over and it went ok for most of us I think. There's a flying programme today but I'm not on, as the only 2 flights that I have left require VMC (Visual meteorological conditions) or good weather in plain English. So now that all theory subjects are over, I will concentrate all of my energy on flying and will do my best to get the most out of my last 2 flights before final check. I have the responsibility for briefing the restricted air spaces during the briefing today, so I better take a look at it... /GEA |
| Date | 06-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Tuesday 1525) Just landed and debriefed. I flew my last Instrument flight today. The IP said that I'm ready for final check, so that's just great. I got an 8 for the flight which is ok considering that I did a fuck-up. On one of my simulated approaches I called out minima, initiated a missed approach and then during my climb, while performing my after take-off checks, I unintentionally leveled off instead of continuing getting away from the ground. Oh well, I won't do that again! In the end I did a GCA (Ground controlled approach) where the controller talks you all the way down to the runway and you follow his instructions precisely. So he gives you heading corrections of 2-3 degrees at a time and tells you whether you are on, above or below glide-path. It was great to emerge from the clouds, call minima and then continue visually to a smooth landing on the main runway. It's the first time that I landed the aircraft on the main runway and it was a great feeling. The landing was a long landing (on purpose) since the flying school is situated at the other end of the runway so I just leveled off at about 1m above the runway and maintained that height all the way down the runway to touch down almost at the end. Time to go study Meteorology. /GEA |
| Date | 06-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Tuesday 1020) Briefing has been held and my individual briefing is at 1245 local time. I'll be flying my fourth and last Instrument flight. The weather is ideal for instrument flying as we have cloud cover at 600 feet, so we'll be flying in clouds all of the flight. We didn't have any stand-up today so everyone's positively surprized. My IP today is the same one from my last instrument flight. He has a background flying Drakens in the RDAF and now he flies for both the Air Force as an instructor and for SAS, flying the airliners. I'll go get some lunch soon. As a wise man once said: Never fly on an empty stomach... or was that a movie?!? /GEA |
| Date | 06-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Tuesday 0850) After the English lessons yesterday, we were taken to 724 Sqn (helicopters) to learn some more about jet engines. We had a look at the Fennec helicopters and their engines and there was also a S61 Sea King in the hangar. Then most of us used most of the evening to study Meteorology as we have the final exam tomorrow. On Tuesday we have the last exam, which is the oral English exam. Then it's jsut flying up to the final check. English lesson is starting again now. Flying today looks doubtful as the weather is just as bad as it was yesterday. /GEA |
| Date | 05-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Monday 1010) We just held briefing but the weather is rather crappy, so flying is postponed to 'later on when the weather gets better.' I got the daily stand up again today...and I didn't exactly do well. In the aircraft authorisation sheet I could see that the aircraft was tanked with 42 gallons instead of the usual 35 gallons of fuel. I was put in a case where I was doing aerobatics and stressed the aircraft to 5g's. When the aircraft is tanked with 42 gallons it is in Utility Category I, which means that it can pull 4.8g's without overstressing while with 35 gallons, the aircraft is in Utility Category II where it can pull 5.4g's without overstressing. So when the safety officer asked me what category the aircraft was in, I promptly replied (rather confused) Utility II, which was wrong of course. Damn, I was asked to sit down and another 'victim' was 'chosen' to take over from where I left. He also answered wrongly and was also asked to sit down. The third student didn't have too many options left, so he answered correctly and finished the case off nicely. Now it's time for some English lessons. Catch you later... /GEA |
| Date | 02-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Friday 0835) We havr Meteorology this morning and later on today we'll finish off with the final written exam in English. I'm on Monday's flying programme, where I'll be flying my last dual Navigation flight...if the weather permits of course. The 6 Gripens that were here in Karup have left. The Danish F16's (from Skrydstrup Air Base) will be taking part in a big NATO exercise soon, so they invited the Swedes and their Gripens to have some warm up practise before the exercise. The Gripens had to do some bombing runs over the Northern part of Jutland, and the F16's mission was to defend the area. So the Gripens simply took off 2 at a time, did their bombing runs and landed about 30 minutes later, where the next 2 Gripens were sent away for their bombing run. There was alot of flying and it wasn't easy to sleep at night, as our quarters are rather close to the main runway (only a few hundred meters)...and the Gripen is quite noisy on take off. We had an ok meeting yesterday, however not as good as last week's. The lesson is about to start now. If I don't write again today, then have a nice weekend. /GEA |
| Date | 01-12-2005 |
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| Message | (Thursday 0925) The flight went well yesterday. I got a 9 and I think I'm getting good at flying by instruments only. I enjoy trying to be as precise as possible while manoevering the aircraft without any visual references. Flying will probably get cancelled today as we have fog once again so right now we have one of the last lessons in Meteorology. Tonight we have the GFU meeting and I think that we'll have an expensive meeting just like last week. /GEA |
| Date | 30-11-2005 |
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| Message | (Wednesday 1340) I just landed from my flight. It went well. All that's left is debriefing, but the IP is flying with another student right now so debriefing won't take place before in about an hour and a half. If only the weather could stay as good as it is the rest of the year... Wishful thinking. Catch you later /GEA |
| Date | 30-11-2005 |
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| Message | (Wednesday 0950) I just briefed my thrid Instrument flight. It's a long time since I've had an Instrument flight, so I look forward to trying it again. I also got a new IP today so there's always new techniques to learn and tips to get. The weather is beautiful today...yet bloody cold! We had about -5 last night and now it's just below freezing I think. Yesterday some Swedish Gripens came over to Karup and they've been flying around since 0700 this morning. Beatiful aircraft that Gripen... My departure time is set to 1130 but it'll probably be moved ahead a little bit. So I think I'll use the remaining hour to brush up the procedures for the flight so that there are no doubts when I'm up there sweating... /GEA |
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