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<\/a>Discovering the Aeroclub<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Five books later (2500 pages) and few hours logged on the simulator I took the first step. I booked a test lesson with Eindhovense Aero Club Motorvliegen<\/a>. The date was set for October 18th<\/sup> 2020. I flew in PH-BSF and I got to do a lot more than I thought I would. Jeroen made it look so easy, I was hooked and I thought I was a natural pilot (couldn’t have been more mistaken). Two days later I was a club member. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have done my theoretical training with Orbit ground school<\/a> as it would allow home learning as well as taking the exams in English. I registered on 22nd<\/sup> October 2020. I started to study and go through the progress test. The syllabus is split into 9 topics. For each topics you 9 topics you need to pass all the progress tests with at 75% success rate. Once you are done with the progress test for a module is complete you can register for the brush-up session which are supposed to be done in Arnhem every during a 3-4 hours session in the evening. Finally you can take the final exam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the beginning of December 2020, after a month of study, I had made decent progress and I queried Orbit about the brush-up session. They told me with COVID-19 restrictions the brush-up would be on Zoom the first week of January. I registered for that. I did the brush-up sessions from January 4th<\/sup> till 8th<\/sup> half in France half in the Netherlands due to difficult family circumstances. And I followed that with the final exams on February 8th<\/sup>. At my first attempt I had failed on the flight performance planning, which I had to retake twice (shameful really). As a result, I finished my theory on April 12th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It gave me a great feeling to finish my exams. From this point on you feel like not much can get in your way before you become a pilot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As EACM is located at Eindhoven airport(EHEH), it resides in a controlled zone. As a result it is mandatory for students to obtain their Radiotelephony license. Fortunately they have an in house course. The difficulty for me is this course is run in Dutch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It consists in 6 lessons of 3 hours each and is conducted the Wednesdays evening for 19h00 to 22h00. It started mid-February for me and finished with final examination on April 12th<\/sup>, the same day as my final theoretical exam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n As part <\/p>\n\n\n\n At the time of this writing I’m approximately midway through my practical training. I’ve done 3 solo flights already and looking forward to more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When I get hold of my PPL license, the plan is to start instrument rating and night rating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story How it started I think I was just a teenager when I realized it would be wonderful to be able to fly in my own aircraft. So Flying is something I had at the back of my mind for… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Training<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Theory<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nRadiotelephony<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Practical <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
What’s next<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Training progress & Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dashboard<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Flight stories<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n