year ending is an opportunity to take stock, as I did last year (see 2009 report and retrospective 2008-2009).
475 hours of flight in 2010 (344 and 200 Beech 90, 128 instruction in, and 3 hours on light aircraft out of education), as against 175 hours in 2009, and only 22 hours accumulated between 2005 and 2006 .. . I doubled my hours in 13 months since I had 500 by the end of my internship FI in November 2009 and 1000 I spent this month.
the balance of the year again, the MCC, QT Beech 90/200 (which is my first, but hardly the last), my first job as a pilot pro, and the beginning of a biturboprop experience in TPP and team skills.
Small retrospective of my year 2010:
January:
This month will be my last to make full-time education or almost, is marked by big falls snow. After a lot of night flying in the first days, the snow causes the closure of Toussus for nearly a week. It also has held in January 2010 Aeroski , with fledglings.
February:
In early February, I receive the DGAC validation letter from my UK PLC. I pass the capes of 600 hours total and my 100th hour of instruction . But February is the month most of my early MCC, which I made in England, Bournemouth, at European Skybus.
Mars
In March, following and MCC, with the first flights simulation, an exercise depressurization, etc.. Then came the QT Beech 90/200 . It is also my first real flight emergency, with a smoke en cabine pendant un vol d'instruction en Rallye. Et c'est le mois de la première embauche comme pilote pro, et de ma première mission en tant que pilote salarié .
Avril :
Mois de l'AEL (Adaptation En Ligne). Au début du mois, j'ai le plaisir de croiser en fréquence , sur le même vol, un ami dans un Embraer, et un autre dans son centre de contrôle. Avril a aussi été marqué par l'éruption du volcan islandais, avec quelques difficultés de redémarrage des aéroports. Au programme de ce mois également, un vol vers l'Allemagne and my first mission to Portugal .
May:
In May, first flight to Spain for my first mission freight. F ormation and my rescue and first aid BEPN at Air France.
June:
The month begins with a flying club out to the island of Yeu . I spend my time on 100th King Air . Pars weekend light plane to Guernsey . I meet for the first time on the frequency a Orly Friend controller. And this is (already!) The second anniversary of the blog .
July:
One day strike control, we take off from Pontoise and bring back to the aircraft after the mission. That same day, I loose my first student PPL . July ends putting the focus on Poland, Katowice to . My destination the farthest to date (8.30 roundtrip flight, more than 2000 nm, 7 and 11 countries flown border crossings).
August:
I ended the month with my longest mission to date, with five stages: Le Bourget Brest Cannes Kerry (Ireland) Le Havre Le Bourget. Almost 10 hours of flight and discovery of the green Ireland.
September:
The bad weather comes back with a taxiing in fog in Saint-Brieuc . I find the sun by going twice in three days in Corsica, Bastia first, then Ajaccio and Bastia . I make my first POGO between Villacoublay and Le Bourget. In late September, it is Virada de l'Espoir, during which I bring lung to give new life to a patient with cystic fibrosis.
October:
I'm going to Hyeres where I cross gust Charles de Gaulle, then in dry dock. and I discovered for the first time Amsterdam and its six runways.
November:
An organ in the morning (weekend) allows me to see some friends Lyon. I beat my record passengers (9 pax or 11 in the plane). And it flies over France snow.
December:
I fly during the day of heavy snowfall in the Paris region, and discovered while White Bourget. And I spend the symbolic threshold of 1,000 flight hours . No Christmas Eve with the family for me, I spend the night of 24 to fly , bringing 5 bodies, beautiful Christmas gifts for patients waiting for transplants!