Jämi Fly In 2014

I attended Jämi Fly In once again this year. We flew there with my schoolmate and hanged at the airfield for the day. I really liked this year's airshow since it included a lot of WWI fighters, which I am very fond of. It was nice to see the Fokker Dr.1 again and also the S.E.5.a for the first time. I was surprised by how small it was. I even thought it was 3/4 scale when I first saw it.

Some WWI warbird action at Jämi

C152 to Räyskälä

It's been quite a while since I've last flown with the C152, but a few days ago we decided to go flying with my classmate who is also my simulator partner. We took the OH-AWB and headed to Räyskälä to have some lunch. There's extremely good hamburgers there so it's always nice to go and have some.

Over Helsinki once again

Flying with the C152 after a few months brake was very fun and I didn't even remember how nice and simple it is to fly. Of course it's quite slow and a bit "cozy" especially with two persons on board but I think it's perfect for short trips like this one.

Landed at Räyskälä airfield

My classmate flew us to Räyskälä and I flew back, logging about one hour of flight time. I still have about 2.5 hours of C152 flying left so I think I'll have to figure out some more flights in the near future..

After the flight we had to plan an IFR flight from Helsinki-Malmi to Tampere. We're not actually going to fly it yet but the FNPT exercises include some homework like flight planning etc so we decided to do this one together to be better able to encounter possible difficulties. The planning didn't went so smoothly even though we finally got everything done. IFR flight planning still feels quite stiff and you have to scratch your head a lot, but I guess it starts to feel more comfortable if you just do it more. Hope so :)

Simulator training continues

For the past few weeks I have been flying in the FNTP for about three days a week and have now logged about 10 hours in it. So there's about 25 still left!

Coursemate doing some unusual attitude recoveries

After the three FNPT-rehearsal flights and the following basic instrument flights we've started to go through VOR, DME and ADF/NDB a little bit more deeply. We've flown and intercepted different VOR-radials and practiced the more challenging basic ADF-procedures. What's made these flights more fun is that even though we will move to approach and landing -training later on, we are already making practice holdings, approaches and landings usually based on the radio navaid that's the subject of the exercise.

Ready for departure at Tampere

At first the approaches were quite basic and the instructor helped a lot by giving radar vectors etc. but now we've been bit by bit incorporating more things to them and I feel that the challenge level rises very smoothly. It doesn't feel overwhelming but still there's certainly no place for any overconfidence!