Værmeldinga denne helgen har nesten vært litt vanskelig å tro, strålende sol over stort sett hele landet! Når flyet ikke var booket et minutt en gang, og flyplassen åpen for en gangs skyld, ble fristelsen alt for stor. Så i dag morges ble det booking av både fly, luftrom og flyplass, og vi lagde oss en plan over fjellet til Fagernes Lufthavn.

Etter arbeidstid på en fredag, med strålende solskinn, er et perfekt tidspunkt for å ta en liten tur med et par kollegaer! Vi fylte flyet med nøye beregnet mengde fuel, og satt nesa avgårde over Boknafjorden.

Today I had my first flight in a motor glider.

The weather hasn’t been the best lately, we’ve had four seasons per day for the last week. So when the winds finally calmed down a bit, and only a few light clouds were scattered around, we just had to get out.

I started flying for fun, and I intend to have as much fun as I can with my newly acquired license! But I also like to give myself som goals, besides just fly as much as I can…

Det er mye man kan si om 2020, og det er mye jeg neppe hadde trodd på om noen i 2019 fortalte meg at det ville bli slik det ble. For en som liker å reise, og ikke er vant til å tilbringe hele året hjemme, ble det fort mange planer som måtte kanselleres. Og det er nok av de som har hatt det relativt forferdelig. Men når en dør lukkes, åpnes en annen.

The Savage Grravel is the perfect mod for just having fun. Tiny airplane with way too much performance.

Welcome to limanovember.aero, my general aviation blog! I use this space to share my experiences during my PPL training, collect and share interesting aviation stuff, and anything else I think can be useful to others. Some posts are written in English and some in Norwegian, depending on the content and target audience. I share my personal view and experience, do not mistake any content here as training. I’m currently working on adding more content, and hope to be able to post my entire PPL training before the end of the summer.

My first flight as a private pilot, bringing LN-HOG back from ENNO to ENHD after service/yearly. Had to take the long way around the coast due to low clouds in the mountains. Cloud along the way also meant I couldn’t go as high as I wanted to.

During the summer of 2020, when everything else got cancelled, I started working towards my life-long dream of obtaining my private pilot license. This is a summary of what I did.

Getting the skill test done turned out to take a bit longer time than I would like. The weather wasn’t the best, LN-HOG was in for it’s annual check, the airport had really bad opening hours, and I had to switch examiner. I eventually just decided that it wasn’t worth waiting for the perfect oportunity anymore, so I decided to drive down to Sola instead. This meant that I had to use an unfamiliar airplane, and fly from a much larger airport (which I still didn’t know as good as I know Karmøy). But it was time to just get this done now!

Today is the day. The day I’m (hopefully) going to finish the training for my PPL(A). After doing the final preparation lesson on the way down to Sola, it’s time to do the school check!

Today is the day. The day I’m (hopefully) going to finish the training for my PPL(A). The plan is to fly down to Sola, doing the preparation for the school check along the way down, and then hopefully complete the school check.

It’s unusually cold outside now, but we also got clear skies! So with the longer opening hours today (being a Sunday), this was the perfect day for the second and final solo navigation/cross country flight! This time I had to do a full stop landing on two other airports. In addition to this, I needed 3 hours of solo navigation time. So I spent the day yesterday planning a route from Karmøy to Sola followed by a long sightseeing route from Sola to Flesland.

There was a lot of crosswind when I started working on the basic maneuvers, but almost none when I was working on my landings. So I needed more training on crosswind landings.