IFR Night Flight Moorabbin Airport to Latrobe Valley

Nearing the end of my Instrument Rating training, one of the last trips we flew was an IFR night flight from Moorabbin Airport to Latrobe Valley. The flight allowed me to practise a few things, including night take-off and landing practise, and night circling around a CTAF airfield. Plus I also got to try a position report, […]

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Flying over Melbourne City at night

I passed my Night VFR checkride back in September 2015 but since then I haven’t exercised the privileges of the rating for my own private flights. So last night I hired a Piper Warrior through the Royal Victorian Aero Club, did a few refresher circuits with one of their instructors to shake off any rust, then took off and […]

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Night VFR Rating – checkride passed

Finally! After training for 4 months experiencing unserviceable aircrafts, weather cancellations, flights that only made it as far as the run up bay, ‘severe’ mountain wave turbulence in the dark, high stress levels wearing foggles trying to calculate outbound NDB intercepts, and 3 prior date changes for the test… I finally flew and passed my Night VFR […]

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