First live blog. Dead exciting! Thanks to Bournemouth Helicopters for the use of their wireless router. No video for this flight as I forgot to put it in. Not a problem as my hovering wasn't so great. In fairness it is 8 knots wind and a bit gusty. Sparse cloud and glorious sun so myself and my instructor today, Dave, are melting in our mini flying greenhouse.
So far we've been out and done a load of circuits. Much needed practice there as my approach has a habbit of being a bit high which is not horrific but makes things a little bit harder for myself. Deffinately better than the last time I did it. We did a couple refresher Auto Rotations just to make sure I hadn't forgotten how to do it and a couple engine emergencies from the hover. All in all ok. I didn't break anything but need to practice my recoveries. This is not a likely task if I do auto for real as a landing os my priority however it is good to get it right so we don't crash doing training! I have one more flight today with the wind getting a bit more breezy and the cloud filling in. Hopefully it doesn't get too gusty as there are limitations to what is reasonable flying weather, especially for training. Watch this space! G-TSLC signing off for now.
16.2 hrs flying at this stage
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