Good luck with it Dean. The one thing that puts me off night flying is where do you put the thing down if the fan stops?? The thought of being away from the airfield and aiming for a ‘Black’ bit and hoping for the best is not very appealing. At least in daylight you can see the ditches, fences etc….

I think I’ll save the fun of night flying until I get a MEP rating. At least if an engine goes i’ll have a fighting chance of landing back between the runway lights 😉

I concur Simon, my night flying will be somewhat limited once I have the qualification, an engine failure in an SEP at night does not fill me with excitement, I haven’t been there as yet but I wonder how much you can actually see once you get closer to the ground, I bet it’s a little more than what’s on view at altitude, but even then yes highly risky. If I did not need the night for my CPL issue then I am not sure I would do it, having 2 babies under the age of 2 certainly makes you think about it alot more.

DME, yes mate great views, and shouldn’t our landings be the other way around? good by day & dodgy by night? oh well at least I can see myself stuff up during the day, problem is so can everyone else HAHA.

Rob sorry to hear about your colour blindness, bit of a bummer, shame you haev to miss out on such views but at least you did get to do it at some point.

Andy only 2 nights? baaa you lucky thing, hit & miss I guess, even tonight looks like its going to be a great night but we could have about 8k vis 🙁
It is a great tool isn’t it for being able to stay a little while longer somewhere, or if you get delayed you can factor out the gethomeitis that alot of pilots suffer.

Anyway a Nav Ex tonight I think to Gloucester for some circuits so I can see the difference between a narrow runway and the wide runway of Filton.
I’ll do a report when I get back 🙂

Dean