1.10 Circuit 3 with Diversion
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Lesson 1.10 – Circuit 3 with diversion Dates: 23-04-2026
07-05-2026 (Diversion)
Today we did a circuit training lesson with a diversion to an airfield in Germany. The purpose of this lesson was a little preparation for the upcoming solo lessons. Then I have to find a possible diversion for myself, as an airfield can be closed temporarily for several reasons. We don’t want to still be in the air while having too less fuel and such.
It was a great day for flying with some sun, 5 knots crosswind and an air filled with stratocumulus and alto-cumulus clouds and the temperature was around 14 degrees.
We took off from our default airfield with a short briefing of the route. Then we went to the fuel station to have at least 24 gallon on board, giving us 3 hours of flight time which is plenty. According to the lesson program, we needed to do circuits but we only did the diversion today. We aim for another 2-3 circuit lessons to fully control that.
After taking off we signed on to Dutch Mil info for the first time, this is something which is not needed in training flights but we did it to get an basic understanding of how this is done. Dutch Mil Info is the Flight Information Service (FIS) for most of the Netherlands, giving traffic and weather information to General Aviation pilots. Its not a control center, so we pilots still have to maintain our own separation but Dutch Mil can give us possible information in special cases.
We navigated to the other airfield using basic chart-navigation. We plotted 3 lines between obvious visual reference points like cities, powerlines and trainroads and calculated a basic course-plan. We followed those points and after a short flight we landed safely on the airfield. Then after a short break we headed back to our main airfield and debriefed the lesson.
Remarks
Some remarks from this lesson for myself are:
- Take higher circuits into account, we were a little high on final making the landing distance also very long
- Keep the altitude better under control using visual flight -> pitch attitude
All with all it was a good lesson with two decent landings and looking forward to the next one, which details will come online soon.
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