MEP Completed

Today I completed the MEP. Tomorrow, the CPL starts.... The real work begins.

Day 4. The day started by watching a chap in the simulator preparing for his IR renewal. He had not flown for a year, so was a bit rusty, but I was still surprised as to how well he performed. It seems that if you learn it properly first time, you won't forget!

After some comedy landings last week, it was time to nail the circuits. We flew to Lee-On-Solent and bashed around their very tight circuit doing all sorts of go-arounds and landings with both one and two engines. We then returned back to the airfield, where I performed a 'creamer' of a landing! (Instructor's words, not mine)

Day 5. I had a few hours to kill this morning, so I took my checklists and books down to the beech..

Today was a MEP consolidation, so we returned to the sky for more stalls, engine failure drills and Critical Speed practice. One engine was failed, the other on full power, and we kept raising the nose until we started to loose control of the aircraft due to the asymmetric thrust. I can't begin to tell you how hard this is on the legs. My legs felt like there were about to fall off, and all my instructor is doing is shouting "BE A MAN!!". Well, I was trying to be a man, but obviously not hard enough...
We then returned to the airfield where I was asked to put the wheels on the ground before the PAPI's, which I did, with a thud. This prompted a response from my instructor, something like, "Well, that was certainly down before the PAPI's".... not sure it was quite what he envisaged.

Tomorrow the CPL begins my my favourite thing... NAV!