Got my PPL

Tristan

Tristan

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Hey there,

I haven't been posting that much lately cause I've been so busy. But today I got my PPL. I live in Australia, so the flying syllabus might be a bit different to USA. I do my training in Canberra which is the capital city of Australia. Canberra is situated near the highest terrain in the country, so where did he send me? Yep to airstrips in the high mountains.

THe testing officer is an ex-Dutch fighter pilot who has logged something like 24000 hours. Anyways, he is really strict and put me under the hammer.
He made me fly to an unlicenced strip in really mountainous terrain with an elevation of 4500ft, and it was a really hot day. We got to the strip and the grass was about 1 meter high in some sections and very uneven. All in all, the flight went ok, but there were a few things which he gave me grief for but he passed me.

Tristan
 
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Tristan said:
Hey there,

I haven't been posting that much lately cause I've been so busy. But today I got my PPL. I live in Australia, so the flying syllabus might be a bit different to USA. I do my training in Canberra which is the capital city of Australia. Canberra is situated near the highest terrain in the country, so where did he send me? Yep to airstrips in the high mountains.

THe testing officer is an ex-Dutch fighter pilot who has logged something like 24000 hours. Anyways, he is really strict and put me under the hammer.
He made me fly to an unlicenced strip in really mountainous terrain with an elevation of 4500ft, and it was a really hot day. We got to the strip and the grass was about 1 meter high in some sections and very uneven. All in all, the flight went ok, but there were a few things which he gave me grief for but he passed me.

Tristan
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Congratulations!!
 
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Thanks! Is it similar thing in the US? Basically you go on a long xcountry nav and have to get all the boxes ticked?
 
Re: Goy my PPL

Tristan said:
Thanks! Is it similar thing in the US? Basically you go on a long xcountry nav and have to get all the boxes ticked?
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In the USA, most of the PPL checkrides I knew of start out on a cross-country flight plan and then divert after the first or second waypoint on the way out of the departure airport. Then the airwork is performed and go back for the landings. Some examiners may do a more full-blown cross country or landings at a second airport but that is not required.

Congratulations on your new certificate. One step closer to your signature line goal.
 
Thanks everyone for your comments, I plan to update my progress on this forum because I got alot of my initial inspiration and support from here. As far as the flight, I made three landings at three different strips. The first two were at unlicenced aerodromes high in the mountains, then the test officer made me do an assimilated forced landing into a licenced CTAF.

Tristan
 
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