Welcome to Experience Flights

[shouston]

Are you a student and getting tired of the circuit? Do you want to see what lies beyond PPL training?

Or is the ink still wet on your new PPL license? Would you like to fly across water or into more complex airspace but aren't comfortable going it alone?

Or have you a few hundred (or thousand!) hours and would like to take students and low hour PPLs as passengers so they can see how you do things?

This is the place to arrange such flights.

However, please bear in mind, these should be regarded as 'mentoring' flights and not instruction and only the pilot in command should log anything. If cost sharing is involved make sure you do so legally and under no circumstances advertise flights in return for money here!

[tony]

I fall into the first category ,orbiting scrabo. See I figured I'D be Red Bulling it by now but the reality is 27 Hrs & still a bit to go for solo. How do you link up with other students who might want to go to other airfields?. Can you share costs ? I dont understand the legal thing.

[rboyd]

The legal thing:
The pilot in command must hold at least a PPL and be current to carry passengers (i.e. at least 3 touch and goes (or 3 full stop landings and 3 take-offs) in the same type of aircraft in the preceding 90 days). I guess that means that if you don't currently have a PPL then you'll need to find someone willing to go with you who has. That person will log all the time as PIC (pilot in command). Regarding cost sharing: The PIC may ask for a "fair" portion of the flight cost to cover costs only. This fair portion is 50% if it's the PIC plus one passenger, or 25% from each passenger if there is the PIC plus 3 passengers. In other words, the PIC can't make money from the flight but the cost can be shared equally amongst all the people in the plane.

Hope this helps. If you're down at the club most weekends I'm sure someone will have a spare seat for you. Ask another student if he would mind if you came along and sat in the back as he takes his lesson; most won't mind.

Regards,
R.

[declan]

Tony
did you see the proposed flyout on the 11th July
you could tag along on that. There will be an instructor so you could log any flying you do
as under instruction
not sure who or where they are going
I can't make it but might join them Monday 12 th July if I know where they are
your welcome to come with me but you can't log any of the time as i'm not an instructor
At your stage with only 27 hours you need to log every minute
Dec

[tony]

Thanks for that Guys bit clearer now. Declan, thanks for the offer, would love to go but will be away.
regards
Tony.

[mingmong]

The legal thing:


Hope this helps. If you're down at the club most weekends I'm sure someone will have a spare seat for you. Ask another student if he would mind if you came along and sat in the back as he takes his lesson; most won't mind.

Regards,
R.

I take it you can't log anything from it, and it's just from an experience point of view?

[declan]

You can only log it if under supervision by an instructor or if you have a current ppl
it's all experience
you can learn a lot just watching and listening
don't do too many hours though
better to get some flying done yourself

[CraigHalligan]

Hi, not really sure if this is where i should post this but here goes.
I finshed Training with CTC aviation last Nov and hold a F-ATPL. I have an MEP rating that runs out in September, but because i did alot of my training in New Zealand I never got a UKPPL and because they dont have class ratings out there i dont have an SEP. I have only flown from Newtownards about 3 times under instruction about 4 years ago and i would very much like to be able to get my SEP so i can do a few hours and take family members up on senic flights. Im not really sure how i can go about it. I havent flown Basic VFR in around a year and a half but recently just got he VFR maps for NI and been looking over them. So if anyone could give me some help on what I would have to do to get some experience and how i would go about getting an SEP/UKPPL that would be great.

Many thanks, Craig