Flying back from Horsham Airport in Victoria to Moorabbin I spent the last 30 minutes or so cloudsurfing just over the top of an unbroken cloud layer above Avalon and Port Phillip Bay I then had to descend to 2600 feet to shoot the RNAV approach to Moorabbin which meant descending through a layer of […]
Two weeks’ ago I flew the ILS approach at Avalon and my glideslope failed to appear. It took me ages to finally get to the bottom of what had happened. The maintenance team tested the aircraft and all was working fine, so I had assumed it was something silly I had done. I was right. It was […]
After several months training, a couple of conversion flights in the Cirrus SR20, examinations, and lots of simulator work it was finally time for me to fly my first solo flights under the Instrument Flight Rules (IFR). I’d briefed the flight with my Instructor before and had decided to keep things really simple for IFR flight number […]
I’ve flown the ILS approach Essendon Airport a few times now in my Instrument Rating training, but always just to the missed approach point. On this flight we fly the ILS down to the ground for a full-stop landing on runway 26 at Essendon (YMEN). We departed Moorabbin Airport on runway 31R for pretty much a straight […]
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, […]
