So this is me
My name is Markus Andersson. I'm a 34 year old dreamer that have realized that life is too short for not fulfilling these dreams. One of my dreams is to learn to maneauver a helicopter so that I can fly whenever and wherever I want. I will here share my thoughts and reflections and hopefully I can inspire you to fulfill your dreams.
I just love the web! Today I found a perfect summary of the ATPL theory course, thank you Rob Groothuis for that piece of paper! Well structured, divided in each subject. For those of you that are interested to take part of it, just click the link above (links to the pdf document) and you’ll save some time when preparing the exams.
Thanks Rob!
I passed all 4 tests at LFV today, so here is the updated status:
Accumulated flight time: 10 hours
COM: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
HP: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
AL: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
OP: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
AGN: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
FPP: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
PF: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
MET: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
NAV: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
3 more to go! I’ll do them one by one during the coming weeks, first some vacation, 2 weeks of chillout on Koh Mook (Thailand) followed by some hard core skiing in Whistler, Canada, where my sister’s working. Im worth it!
FPP (Flight Planning and Performance) - 95 %
AGN (Air craft General Knowledge) - 85 %
That means that I have passed all the 9 qualifying tests at school, great! Tomorrow I’ll write 4 of them for LFV. If, if if I pass them I have 3 more before I’m totally done with the theory.
Status right now:
Accumulated flight time: 10 hours
COM: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
HP: QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED)
AL: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
OP: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
AGN: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
FPP: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
PF: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
MET: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
NAV: QT (PASSED) LFV (NOT DONE)
Now it’s time to chill for the rest of the day!
AL (Air Law) - 95 %
OP (Operational Procedures) - 95 %
PF (Principles of flight) - 85 %
Just got back after three Qualifying tests followed by a three hour lesson in AGN. So “!%#& tired and need to reload by sweet dreams about carburators and load factors because tomorrow av 8 AM I’ll write the last two tests, AGN (Aircraft General Knowledge) and FPP (Flight Planning & Performance).
Later when I have more time I’ll tell more about the tests and what I find tricky and share with you some good things to have in mind when writing the tests.
Time for bed…Zzzzzz!
Tuesday night and only two more days before the last exams at school. so the schedule looks like this:
YES I know! I should have started my studies earlier than this, but don’t you remember how you did back in the days in school???
I’ll really try to close this theory part ASAP so that I can focus on the fun part, TO FLY. I still have about 35-40 hours left before I can feel the smell of my certificate.
Back to work…
On Friday, we started the PPL (H) Bridge course. Three weekends where we´ll cover the topics:
We are about 20 people in the group from all parts of Sweden and I don’t really know how many of us that will continue with the commercial licence CPL (H) in november. Don”t ask me, I haven’t decided yet but as soon as i get up in the air again I guess I have 
There are rumors saying that there are plans of starting a CPL “light” course covering more or less the same amount of information than in the regular CPL course, but in 200 hours instead of in 700 hours, can someone explain to me how this will work (probably no one)? I’ll follow up on this issue later on…
Today we had 6 hours of Aerodynamics talking about different forces and theories of flying an helicopter, airfoils, drag, translational lift, Bernoulli’s Principle, Newton’s third law, Angle of attack, Gyroscopic Precession, semirigid rotors, autorotation, torque, Ground effect, transverse flow effect, dissymmetry of lift, flapping.
Now it starts to get really interesting, need to dig a bit deeper into the subject! What I also need now is some sleep, good night!