Reflections on my second navigation exercise

2022-11-26

Reflecting on my second navigation lesson over a brew this morning, there were significant positives I can take away from yesterday:

All the problems I had on the first and second legs were fixed for the final leg back to Blackbushe, and even with those earlier problems I hit all my turning points and was never in danger of becoming lost
The tweak to add a local reference point as a mini leg at the start meant I wasn’t off track before I even began due to departure procedures at Blackbushe, and I’ll definitely factor this into all future planning.
I remembered to regularly check alignment of DI and compass throughout, which is something I had to be prompted on in the previous lesson
RT is definitely improving. I got to talk to someone other than Blackbushe or Farnborough, picked out the other pilots making “traffic” calls on Benson’s frequency so didn’t even bother asking them for anything and switched to Oxford. I added the routing info into the basic service request without problem.
The new Bose A20s I treated myself to as an early Christmas present are a massive step up in clarity and comfort