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Short video from Ukrainian pilot and vlogger Denys aka Pilot Blog. He’s continued to provide updates on the situation in Ukraine and do Q&As for his followers despite having to leave his home to save his family. I’ve followed his channel for several months now and he’s one of my favourite aviation vloggers, so please consider giving him a follow.
An update from the Ukrainian pilot/vlogger I follow.
Ukranian vlogger Pilot Blog has had to evacuate after a Russian attack near his home.
This is a Ukrainian airline pilot that I’ve been following on Youtube for a while. Please watch his video and perhaps give his channel a follow.
Rather than listen to what idiots with no clue are saying, or even rather than listening to folks like me who’ve been looking into this situation for a while, please listen to Ukrainian voices first.
I PASSED!!!!
As of this morning, I have 14 ATPL theory passes in the bag. I’m one step closer. Guess it’s time to actually learn to fly now!!!
In a couple of weeks, I move to another country and finally get to fly. I can’t wait.
Final stretch
Well. I have now officially finished my school finals and passed them all with over 90%. Sorted. Now just another 19 days until actual exams and then I’ll be done! The end is in sight guys!! The end is in sight!!!
36 Days To Go.
Slowly I’m making my way towards the end of ground school, and it cannot come soon enough. Putting in 15 hours work a day is really taking its toll on me, but it will be worth it eventually.
I took some time off and headed to London after class on Friday (doing Air Law revision on the train ofc). I met up with my friend and we went to the cinema before I made dinner for us. Managed to see musical Saturday afternoon too before heading back to revision and chaos. That little bit of freedom and downtime and remembering what the outside world looks like was definitely needed.
(And dinner tasted pretty awesome too if I do say so myself.)
Some day I would love to live in London. My dream is to be stationed at London City, right in the heart of that beautifully vibrant city with that crazy glideslope coming in over the shining lights of Canary Wharf. I spent about an hour stood on the shore of the Thames waiting for her to finish work. Watching the aircraft on finals or taking off from City, Stansted and Heathrow before an evening of relaxing was just enough to remind me why I’m doing this.
One day, I’m going to be in the sky with them. And that day is coming soon.
I’m still trying to get a confirmation of location/start date/estimated duration for the flying phase of training, but my school can be… slightly chaotic? I’ve been pushing for over a month now but have made little progress. Hopefully any visa’s I need will be fairly quick to obtain but we shall see. I just have to focus on studying the best I can for the next 36 days and smashing these exams, then I can make pushing for flying info a full time assault.
Hopefully if the progress test scores are anything to go by, I’ll be fine.
Gen Nav is slightly worrying right now as we are only halfway through the syllabus with only 2 weeks of teaching left… Also, on Monday we are expecting yet another instructor change (number 4! Yaaaaay!) so everyone will be suitably confused as to where we’re up to and what we’ve covered again. Never mind. I think that one I’m just going to read ahead and self-study. We’ve completely finished Air Law now and only have a few bits and pieces to clear up in AGK. I’ve finished the Met syllabus and am now just working on consolidating that knowledge, but that should be okay too.
I’m in VMC with the runway in sight, all I have to do is get the gear to the touchdown zone before conditions change again.
(Okay that was bad. Even for me that was bad. I do apologise.)
Ground School.
There are people who compare ground school to hell, and to be perfectly honest, I can see why.
As an integrated student, I wake up at 6am every day. I leave for class at 7am, have breakfast in the common room while revising, and then spend all day learning. Once class finishes, we come home and study some more, usually until about 10pm, and then the cycle repeats again. Weekends no longer exist.
I’ve been doing this for almost 7 months now, and I am tired.
The content is reasonably high level, but its achievable. (Even if in some cases it is downright incorrect - don’t get me started on centrifugal force). The volume of content however, is absolutely ridiculous. The exams are tailored to trip you up and a lot of the time it’s a case of working out which is the “most right” answer out of several right-ish ones. So much of the actual content is completely useless and I highly doubt it’ll help me to become a better pilot.
I have exactly zero intention of leaning out of the window at 30,000 feet to measure the diameter of a droplet of drizzle. If I can see a still surface of water, I’m probably going to be more concerned with why I’m so close to it than if the precipitation is making an impact on the surface.
I would be so curious to see how many professional pilots could actually pass a set of these exams if they were to sit them today. I feel it would not be many. Especially when the authority seem to have a passion for putting in questions outside the syllabus. Maybe in a few years, I’ll run a set of papers and see how well I do… For science!
Right now, my motivation is at an all time low and I know I just have to keep on pushing through.
51 days, providing I pass, and I’ll be free.
Less than 2 months.
I hope they go quickly.
