Jack Oatway with one of his Instructors, Lee
Two Sussex Flying Club students have successfully passed their final Skill Test and therefore have completed their Private Pilots Licences this week.
Congratulations to Reinhardt Slabbert, who passed his test on Friday 10th Decemeber, and Jack Oatway who passed on Tuesday 14th December, which was also two days before his 18th Birthday!
Sussex Flying Club are flying groups of Air Training Corps cadets on air experience flights over the coming months. Pictured are some of the cadets of 1440 Shoreham Squadron who flew on Sunday 14th November together with their Instructor, Tony Brackston.
On 15th November Sussex Flying Club student Louis Hyde successfully completed his first solo circuit and made a very nice landing on Runway 02 at Shoreham.
Congratulations Louis!
Ernesto Marinelli with SFC Instructor Geoff Buck
We were pleased to welcome Ernesto Marinelli, the Ducati World Superbike Team Manager, to Sussex flying Club on a recent visit to the UK. He and his partner came for a flight in one of our Piper Warrior aircraft and spent about an hour in the air taking in the sights of sussex. Ernesto took the controls for most of the flight and was keen to learn the rudiments of handling the aircraft. After receiveing a guided tour of the MCA maintenance hangar he took to the skies again, this time just Ernesto and instructor, for some circuit training, where Ernie made several quite reasonable landings. Pretty quick progress for a novice student..! We look forward to another visit next time he is in the UK.
A number of SFC members recently enjoyed a fly-out to Abbeville to sample the historic sights and some fabulous food and drink.
A sunny day trip to Abbeville
Nick Mortimer with his Instructor James Crabbe
Sussex Flight Centre has completed another student who has obtained his Commercial Pilots Licence with us. Nick Mortimer achieved a first series pass on September 18th; a few days after a previous CPL student obtained a first time pass.
The minimum training time for ab-initio CPL students is twenty five hours and both Nick and the previous student, completed their CPLs in less than thirty hours each.
Sussex Flight Centre offer CPL training on the PA28 Warrior III aircraft and the final ten hours are completed in the PA28 Arrow complex type aircraft. This successful type combination clearly works well.
Watch a video to see the challenging landing on St. Mary’s!
