More theory done

14/8/2012

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On Saturday the 11th of August, I wen't to Malmi the entire day to have a groundschool and tests about Navigation, Flight Performance and Planning and Basic Instrument Theory. The day wen't through pretty fast, but I failed the tests (passgrade is 85%). I then travelled back the next day and made them! That feels great. Now I have around 50% theory done from the school, but after that I still have the tests from the authority.

Stay tuned, tomorrow is my next flight!

Helge
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    Helge Sakkestad

    Welcome to my road-to-PPL blog! First of all, PPL means Private Pilot License for all of you who didn't knew. Second, the language of the blog will be English because of the various nationalities of my friends and readers.

    My name is Helge, and I'm 16 years old. I'm from Norway but I have been living in Finland for about five years. I don't speak Finnish so I do my training in English. Thankfully my flight school is very professional in English. I have been dreaming about flying for a long time! I always enjoyed flying (as a passenger) when I was a little kid, and after I tried Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004 in 2004 I became even more interested. In 2006 many happenings became the start of my huge interest for aviation, and I started to fly FS again after a break caused by the fact that the simulator had some error and was unable to start. I managed to fix it but before that I had already purchased FS98 and FS2002 in the summer. I started to fly more advanced planes in Flight Simulator, and I learned many, many aircraft types so I could recognize the airplanes I saw. Some time after I moved to Finland I really wanted to start flying in a way or another. I was much into ultralights and gliders from time to time, as well as considering PPL. In 2010 I bought the Norwegian "ultralight pack" with theory books because they are the same that is used for PPL training, just a few less books.
    After flying a glider in 2010 I really wanted to start flying gliders but I realized that PPL would be the smartest as my goal is to become a commercial pilot one day, and I always dreamed to fly over my house etc, something that would be impossible in a glider. Also, the PPL hours counts in a totally different way than the hours from gliders and ultralights. But it has its price.

    In December 2011 I was in contact with the flight school, Aeropole, and we agreed to start the theoretical course, shortly followed by the practical course in January 2012. In other words, I started officially with my PPL in January 2012 when the contracts was signed.

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