PPL Nav 2

[Mattie Cribb]

Gday Everyone

 

Well it came:smile: and then went:frown: but what fun it was my 2nd PPL nav were we brought a bit more stuff in then what was done on my first nav. During last week i was getting my Checks 100% and i got them MOSTA,CLEAROF and CAAAMR well saturday came around bright and early woke up at 5am to be at the airport by 6am to start planning today we were flying Coolangatta-Kyogle-Bonalbo-Baryulgil-Casino-Coolangatta planned it all up flying Cooly to Bonalbo at A065 highest i have everbeen in a G.A aircraft and from Bonalbo back to Cooly at A055 we worked out winds and ground speed and out whole flight was going to be 95Min so after everthing had been completed i gathered everything i needed for the flight and headed out to the aircraft i was in for today which was a C172M rego VH-BUA not a bad aircraft well i did the pre-flight nothing out of thr ordinary

 

With Full tanks we were ready to go well hehe thats what you all think well the aircraft didnt want to start did she lol i firstly started the aircraft with out the mixture rich :redface: mybad but when i relised we put it in and then tried again andthe aircraft wasent cranking and my Instructor said that the starter motor has had it so he said tie it all back up i was :frown: but then as i finished the last tiedown my instructor and another came out to look throught the POH and ended up coming to a conclusion to start and try with the Battery cart so we did that and it worked then we tried with out it and it worked. so after that i untied it all and got back in the aircraft and started it up was fine

 

We then got airways clearence for the Goldcoast Via Kyogle and was cleared to Kyogle at A060 and to code of 1666 ironic after what had just happened Devils number so then got the Atis and it was Q,Rwy14 190/5 CAVOK temp 18 and QNH1024 and what a great day it was so then got a taxi clearence and off we wnt 1hr after we planned to depart so SARTIME was change to 0200z one hr later and we waited at the Holding point for at least 10Min waitng for traffic and once we were cleared we had to get on and go so we passed 500' and turned to intercept the VOR and was on track before the 5NMs so off we went contacted BN APP 123.5 and got cleared to climb A065 the aircraft didnt struggle at all we did out MOSTA checks and then a Clearof check and planned Kyogle by time 41 and we arrived spot on 41 for kyogle so off to a good start,

 

Now on to Bonalbo 12Min south west of kyogle and planned for an arrival to Bon at time 53 but was 1min late owell hehe and then off to YBYL but never made it to there becase of time so again we diverted straight to casino we made it to casino and we did a touch and go there not a bad little airstrip so then departed off Rwy28 back to the Goldcoast and did a 45deg departure then back onto our heading for the goldcoast . passing Nimbin we contacted BN Radar 119.5 and got passed to BN App 123.5 for our airways and then we heard that Glider that crashed i didnt hear it my self i wasent listening but my instructor heard it and i asked what it was and he said a glider crashed at Tyagarah i was like oh! there was going to be a Drop but becase of what happened the drop i dont think happened but owell back to my approach into the goldcoast it was nothing out of the blue everything was same as usual and my landing wasent bad at all had to show up the Virgin Blue 738 that was taxiing but yeah another Nav down and 2 more to go before my solo Nav and thats when you will get some pictures/videos we then went back inside the hanger and filled out all the records and i got to log 2.2hrs but over all a great flight carnt wait to do another

 

Ok thanks for reading i hope you understood what i wrote hehe ok see you all later

 

Byeee

 

Mattie

 

 

[Guest Darren Masters]

Nice report young Mattie. With all these NAVEX you are doing you could just about fly over the ditch and come say hello Fun times, safe flying mate.

 

 

[Guest djrose]

nice work Mattie, I'm still working on GFPT & look forward to NAV's. How are you planning to video inside the cockpit? I've been thinking it through & am interested in your thoughts.