{"id":2,"date":"2011-07-27T02:23:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dna.qudon.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T14:24:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fortyfivehours.co.uk\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About the Blog & Why Learn to Fly…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m running this blog for two reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Document every step of the way to hopefully achieving my private pilots licence.<\/li>\n
  2. Keep me writing things down!\u00a0\u00a0 Practical is fun, revision can be tedious – but most research says you learn it faster if you write it down, so lets see \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    ….and maybe along the way someone else will find it interesting or useful in one way or another.<\/p>\n

    It’s going to be about flying and nothing but flying.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Why learn to fly in the first place?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

    It’s in your blood or it isn’t……if it isn’t, you’ll walk away from a trial flight with not much more than “that was a lot of fun.” \u00a0\u00a0 <\/em>If it is, you’ll find you exited the plane and headed straight to the aero club desk to book more, much more…..as soon as possible please \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0\u00a0 Clearly I fall into the latter group.<\/p>\n

    All well and good, but if you just wanted to get airborne there are cheaper ways to do it.\u00a0\u00a0 For example a National Private Pilots Licence (NPPL), will make you legal to fly in the UK, in Visual Flight Rule conditions in UK registered planes.\u00a0 Requires 10 less hours to get (from a legal perspective, your mileage in training by differ)<\/em>, equating to a ball park saving of \u00a32,000 compared to getting a Private Pilots Licence (PPL), which requires a minimum of 45 hours<\/strong> in the air.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Why not do that then?\u00a0\u00a0 How often are you going to leave the UK, really?<\/p>\n

    \"Jersey<\/a>

    Jersey Aeronautical Chart<\/p><\/div>\n

    If you’re going to do anything that will take a long time and\/or cost a lot of money, I propose you need to do it because\u00a0 you have a dream.\u00a0\u00a0 You go to University for 3+ years because you dream of becoming……… Before setting out on a Private Pilots Licence course, it’s good to know why you want that licence.<\/p>\n

    Jersey :\u00a0 The Dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I might only ever do it once in my life, that is still to be seen, but my dream is to fly myself<\/span> to Jersey.<\/p>\n

    In part “because it’s there”, but actually because it’s not as straight forward to get to as you might think:<\/p>\n