Solo navigation exercise to distant airport

Now it’s time to fly solo outside my home airport. It’s not the first time I’ve been flying to other airport, but it’s the first time on my own.

Planing

A flight always start with planing, you must keep track of:

• Weather
• Distances
• Courses
• Airspace’s
• Fuel amount

Pilots know that a successful flight starts with planing, it helps you to be steps ahead during the flight and will give you a more relaxed flight.

Planing is often done in an old fashioned way using papermaps, rulers, protractor and flight computer (if you have one)

My trip started from Umeå (ESNU) and my destination was Lycksele (ESNL) each leg was estemated to 1 hour with airspeed of 150km/hour (aprox 75 knots).

Pictures from the trip

Summary

In all this lesson was quite successful. I reached my destination almost on time. The weather was nice even thou I had to descend a couple of hundred feets due to cloud base and some turbulence.

This is a screenshot from my GPS track.