http://www.helidreams.com A journey from an office to the sky Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:14:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Nice end of the week, I passed the Air Law (AL) and Operational Procedures (OP) exams for the authorities today. Now I deserve a hell of a midsummers eve celebration, cheers! AL (Air Law): QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED) OP (Operational Procedures): QT (PASSED) LFV (PASSED) RNAV (Radio Navigation): QT (NOT DONE) LFV (NOT DONE) HP (Human Performance):  QT ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=100 So, now it's time for a new round of theory tests. Qualifying tests at school followed by a test for the authorities in all the subjects covered in the CPL(H) course that will finish in the end of 2009. As I mentioned the first period covers four of the thirteen ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=99 After gone through two weeks of hard study, covering Air Law, Operational Procedures, Human Performance and Radio Navigation, I now need to study even more to pass first the Qualifying Tests at school and then the exams for the Swedish Aviation Authorities (Luftfartsstyrelsen). A couple of days ago I decided ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=98 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 ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=97 So, what happened? After two months of silence, a Private Pilot Licence in my pocket, I've now decided to continue with the next challenge, the Commercial Pilot Licence. Why stop now? Now it's just to mobilise energy to go through the theory and start looking for some financing (if you ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=96 Since it's nowadays very seldom that you get something exiting in your mailbox I was super excited yesterday when I had a mail waiting from the authorities including my Helicopter licence and a bill of 9.500 SEK. The funny thing is that I didn't ever care about the fat bill, ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=95 I will quote my instructor "It won't be the best flight you've done!" and it wasn't but I don't give a shit, because I passed the flight test! I'm since about 4 hours ago a proud owner of a PPL(H) certificate. The weather was OK even though the cloud base ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=94 So, finally it's time for examination! If the weather is OK tomorrow I'll get in the car and drive to Vasteras Airport (ESOW) tomorrow morning after finalizing my flight plan for the navigation part of the examination. The weather forecast says about 50/50 for tomorrow, please Mr Weather Guy, be ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=93 OK, so "D-day" is getting closer! I have booked a rehearsal flight lesson tomorrow to go through all the phases of the PPL(H) certification. No date booked but probably mid next week :-) A large cup of coffee, cleaning up my map (that has become a bit messy) browsing the Robinson ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=92 With a bright blue sky and about 10 knots of wind I made my last solo flight before examination today. I flew Bromma - Bålsta - Västerås - Strängnäs - Bromma during 1.6 hours. Had about 20 minutes of instrument training since I had the sun like a spotlight in ... http://www.helidreams.com/?p=91