I have successfully succeeded in success ...

I think I might be going insane...

"Only the insane have the strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane"

That is my favour I think. On a similar vein...

"The only justifiable risk is one that can do more harm to the enemy than it can to you. All risks must be calculated in your favour. Otherwise you are fighting for the enemy!"

                                                                                                                           Imperium Tactica

I took a calculated tisk today and sat my Nav exam. To all intents and purposes it shouldn't be such an ordeal as, mentioned in a previous post, I teach navigation to crews of the RNLI's lifeboats surrounding the UK Ireland and Isle of Mann who go out regularly in all weather conditions to save lives of those in distress at sea. An environment where navigation has to be good, accurate and robust to get you to the casualty and home safely. Yet still I have found issues with the air Nav.  the chief instructor at Bournemouth helicopters, Gary Ellson, is currently doing maritime navigation study and he too is finding the cross over frustrating and not as easy as it should be with previous Nav experience. It is the subtle differences and the major  similarities that make up for half the battle. 

Anyhew, I sat the exam and managed a comfortable 80%. some silly is takes and to be honest two marks were dropped because I ran out of time and had to throw a couple guesses in there while a bit stressed. I got stressed more because I had a moment of doubt with some of my earlier answers as I reached the last two questions with 1 minute to go. 

now that I have passed this exam I can now at last get on with my cross country qualifier flight which I believe will be down to Exeter via Compton Abbas and back to Bournemouth. A round trip of approximately 3 hours, the suggestion was made of flying round Compton Abbas for over two hours but then I discovered I had to land and get people at each place to sign a chitty to say I had been there. To be honest I'm looking forward to going to other airfields as I’ve always returned to Bournemouth with only landings done in remote locations run by the administrative workings of sheep or squirrels.

To the next exams - Meteorology, Principals of flight and Performance and Planning