Advice please

Hi, good attempts.
With all that sky in the back, the exposure will not be right unless you use Spot metering or manual. As you can see, the whites are bleaching a little.
For manual, expose off grass. If subject is in sun, use grass in the sun. Shade for shade.
Grass is the colour version of the Kodak Grey Card, the 18% grey that all averaging meter systems aim for.

If you can’t see grass, buy a grey card (They used to be expensive…mine in 15 years old!!). Or, a perfect white sheet…that will be 5 stops too high (At 100ASA), but the white method is nowhere near as good as the grass or grey card.
HTH.

Thank you for the advice. What did you get a job doing?

Motivation, dedication and perseverance. That’s what you need. Without those three things you might achieve your aim eventually but if you have them your progress is likely to be quicker.

Honestly I didn’t know anything about being a pilot when I took my first lesson. I had flown a 1 or 2 times a year for most of my life up to that point but had never been in a small airplane. I never knew anyone who had become a pilot. I didn’t even know what a C152 was until about 1 week before that first flight.

I started my training with a lot of other people who were a lot better prepared for the start of training. They had been flying GA aircraft prior or at close friends who were already pilots. Then there was me. In my initial class of 35-40 students there are only 5 of us left in aviation. Of those 5 I was the first to finish my certificates and even get a job flying. It has a lot more to do with desire than prior knowledge. The motivated succeed.

If it’s something that you really want then it will probably come easier to you than for others. Best of luck!

Originally posted by brenmcc1
my “friend” is made up i was just using it for an example but thanx alot for the info, great help 😉

There is no need to use hypothetical situations on here as anyone on this forum is willing to offer advice/supply information if asked. Don’t be embarrassed to ask a question if you don’t have the answer, none of us knows everything. Because of the previous statement none of us will think you stupid for asking, we would probably consider you to be more stupid if you did not avail yourself of the wealth of information available via the subscribers to these pages.
The other thing I wanted to say is go for it and to wish you success and safe, happy flying!

my “friend” is made up i was just using it for an example but thanx alot for the info, great help 😉

Re: Advice please

Originally posted by brenmcc1
Could anyone decide to pay £5000 ( or whatever the cost may be) for a PPL and get all the training they kneed to pass all the exams or would they need some knowlage before they try.

If that didn’t make any sense them maybe this might.

James know nothing about planes apart from they fly would he be able to enroll into a PPL course?

There’s two answers to this question. No and Yes.

Not everyone can reach the level of expertise needed to fly a light aircraft in the crowded skies and meterological conditions of (particularly) the crowded SE of the UK. So the answer is no.

The ‘Yes’ part is that it is not necessary to start by knowing anything whatsoever about aircraft, flying, or the exam subjects. Indeed some erroneous prior knowledge can be a handicap rather than an asset.

Over all, flying GA aircraft is easy. Simpler than driving a car, by a long way. The next thing your friend needs to do is take a couple of lessons and see how he gets on. It will only cost a couple of hundred quid, and he’ll have bought an hour or two’s valuable life experience, even if he then decides to go no further.

All the information needed to get through the PPL will be given to him by the training organisation. (It’s about one-thousandth of the knowledge you need to become a real pilot, the rest you accumulate after you have the licence).

Moggy

The school should guide you through the required self study.

I’m 16 and have began looking into it more, i have had a trial flight in a local club to see what it was like and it was good, i think i will have another soon and go from there.

hard work is what you need, any person can do it, heh Im doing it and im just a school boy at 16.

Regards with the usual safe legal stuff