Next week I am doing my final test in my PPL, first step on the way to commercial and one thing struck me on the way home.

Navigation, as a Pilot I'm expected to be able to safely navigate from one place to another I'm also expected to be able to demonstrate what I need to do when I'm lost and how to find myself and how to change my destination in flight in case of emergency or weather. It's a really important part of the test and takes up about 1 hour of it. Finally I'm expected to be able to react to an engine fire or failure and bring the aircraft safely back to earth without killing anyone or anything!

Why don't we have to do this kind of thing when we learn how to drive? Seems to make sense to me or is it just me?

 

Makes sense to me too - might remove some of the numpties off the road.

 

I would imagine getting lost is a bit more serious in a plane.

 

Depends where you're driving.

 

It's not as if you can park up at the side of the road and ask for directions

 

But why do we not cover driving at night in the test?

TG years ago had a feature on whta should be in the test and isn't

 

Well there's no road signs in the air. The engine stops in the car, the usual outcome is that you don't die in a screaming fireball.

Having said that. There should be devices in cars that shoot the driver if they swing across three lanes with no signalling in town centres.

In fact, lets go one better. Can everyone else just **** off and get off my roads?

 

Parachute, door.

Sod where it lands