One engine flights (N-1).

Some pictures and videos of one of the N-1 engine flights we did recently.
This flight is very nice because the weather was bad on the ground and we departed in IFR to climb above the layer of clouds. The layer wasn't very thick and we found ourselves in the sun rather quickly. It is fun to think then, that people under are still in the fog, with a grey, bad looking sky and poor visibility :-).
My flight partner took these pictures from the backseat, I'm the Pilot Flying in the left hand front seat, our instructor is in the right seat.

crosscountry skiing winter 08

Massif du Vercors, France

Nice weather conditions
Snow condition was mediocre : from quite good near the summit to complete ice as we are skiing down.
I hold the cameras, so it is my friend Olivier that you can see on most of these pictures.

Life after CPL ...

Some pictures of my new ride : DA42...

JAA CPL !!!!

I'm now a professional pilot !!!
This morning I had my chekride. It was all ok, except for the diversion, I underestimated the wind, and slided out of my road for a few degrees. The visibility was quite poor, and I missed the city I was going to. Fortunately I was eventually allowed to use a VOR DME to spot exactly where I was and save the diversion...
Well That was quite stressfull but in the end I made it !! JAA CPL !

Night flights ...

For the commercial, we've got to do some night flights too. Here are some pictures from the flights we did last week. We went on Lille Lesquin Airport (LFQQ) which is the big regional airport around here.

Simulator...

During the Commercial pilot training, we have to do 5 hours of low visibility flight training in a simulator. We use the BE58 simulator to simulate a TB20. The computer software uses TB20 performances and we couple the engine levers. We also hide the engine parameters of the right engine.
Configured in that way, the BE58 simulates exactly the TB20 .
Here are some pictures of this sim.
I enjoyed this sim training a lot. It is really nice.

More pictures

We changed instructors. We got a new one who is IFR instructor as well. This allowed us to take off in IFR with very bad weather conditions and to go practise no visibility pilot skills... inside the clouds. That was a lot of fun. We even did a barrel roll !!!!! :-)
Here are some pictures of these flights.