Visual techniques

Apologies again as this is another late post. Non the less....

So you've been flying solo for a while now and developed all of your general handling techniques such as:

• Practice forced landings (PFL's)
• Stalls
• Steep turns
• Emergencies
• Circuits

In addition to this you will learn how to navigate using visual techniques, remaining in visual flight rules at all time. Naturally all of these techniques are developed to a commercial standard here and utilising the published Standard Operating procedures laid down by the company.

Most training oranisations will have an interim test which we call PT1. This is essentially testing you on all the skills you have learned so far. Unlike the UK PPL license tests, this is far more formal and requires a higher standard. That isn't to say that the PPL is unsuitable in anyway, you just have to bare in mind that eventually we need to fly commercially and therefore the school demands a high standard early on. Makes sense really!

The idea of PT1 is to have this done and passed before any further progression onto instrument flying.