Get your PPL first. Rent solo to gain confidence. Find out what kind of flying you both enjoy and can afford.
There are advantages and disadvantages in the more extreme aircraft – high cruise speed, low stall speed, big wheel, tyre, and small wheels. There are variations in handling you won’t appreciate until you can fly. And the view from the cockpit varies.
Once a PPL, you’ll be in contact with others and can get flights in the aircraft as passenger to get the feeling the bush-type planes, etc.
Peter wrote:
Yes, but what that doesn’t say is that you can file flight plans airborne, done implicitly by being in radio contact with ATC.
The following paragraph in SERA says that:
A flight plan shall be submitted, before departure, to an air traffic services reporting office or, during flight, transmitted to the appropriate air traffic services unit or air -ground control radio station, unless arrangements have been made for submission of repetitive flight plans.
For example nobody files a FP for (1) above, or indeed most of the other reasons.
Really? So why do you think you file a flight plan for what you call a “Eurocontrol” IFR flight?
There are countries where every flight, even in the local circuit, requires a flight plan. I believe Greece and Croatia are two of these. So the rules vary nationally, but the EASA (SERA) requirements do not dictate that.
If you note in 1 a flight plan should be provided not filed or deposed.
6 should normally be filed or deposed in France.
Yes, but what that doesn’t say is that you can file flight plans airborne, done implicitly by being in radio contact with ATC.
For example nobody files a FP for (1) above, or indeed most of the other reasons.
Item (6) is interesting but dubious. Definitely not required in the UK.
Only (5) is a real legal requirement, and it has some exemptions in central-ish Europe, though if you read it carefully those exemptions may not be usable a lot of the time.
Here is a thread on when flight plans are not required in Europe.
Thanks, I found a reference to SERA.4001 in that thread which helped to clarify the situation.
A flight plan shall be submitted prior to operating:
(1) any flight or portion thereof to be provided with air traffic control service;
(2) any IFR flight within advisory airspace;
(3) any flight within or into areas, or along routes designated by the competent authority, to facilitate the provision of flight information, alerting and search and rescue services;
(4) any flight within or into areas or along routes designated by the competent authority, to facilitate coordination with appropriate military units or with air traffic services units in adjacent States in order to avoid the possible need for interception for the purpose of identification;
(5) any flight across international borders, unless otherwise prescribed by the States concerned;
(6) any flight planned to operate at night, if leaving the vicinity of an aerodrome.
Ciao,
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Zsolt
The flight plan rules are more complicated but I have just a phone.
