Blog – PPL Flight Test Practice 09/03/2025

Another week of practicing the skills for the PPL Flight Test.

The weather today was overcast with a series of squalls going thru. Not too bad but we had to pick our timing to get a decent run of weather.

After running through our pre-flight, taxi, run-ups, and take-off we flew out to the training area and ran thru the following:

Engine Failure at Ground Roll
Short Field Take-off
Stall – Powered Off
Stall – Powered On
Stall – Wing Drop
Standard and Steep Turns
Force Landing Without Power
Compass Turns
Slow Flight
Short Field Landing

I was flying ok today. I felt good with most skills and my handling was pretty good.

I did muck up the Compass Turns by not limiting my turns to Rate One. This made staying accurate harder. Not Earth shattering, but something to note as I don’t do these enough.

I had only minor issues with Short field landing as I was accurate but just a wee bit off centre as I didn’t add aileron for the crosswind.

My main take-away from today was that I was consistent, accurate and safe so I was stoked.

Next lesson we will most likely rinse and repeat, and add in a few more items on the PPL flight test list, working towards maintaining consistency and accuracy.

I can feel my skills progressing ever closer to a consistent flight test standard. I’m so close now, I can smell the sweet taste of success!

Until next time…

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Blog – PPL Flight Test Practice 09/03/2025