Volare Necesse Est - It's Necessary to Fly

(latin) It really is, believe me

Ever since I was 11 years old I have had a "thing" for most flying things (except those that go "bzzzzzzz" and are equipped with a stinger). If you care to know more about how it started, read all about it here.

Today I am a holder of a JAR-FCL PPL with Night Qualification and ME/p rating. Until a few years ago also had an instrument rating as well, but I dropped it due to lack of time and lack of real IMC capable aircraft to gather some real IMC time in. Now that I have the ME/p, I might take up the IR-flying again :) I have amassed some 700 flying hours and roughly 70 of those in IR/IMC flight, 30 during night time, 6 in  ME/p and made some 1300 landings. I have been flying to places abroad such as Amsterdam (Schiphol), Riga (Latvia), Oslo (Norway), Odense (Denmark) and Kuressaare (Ösel, Estonia). When I was on Iceland, I went for a spin there too logging 1,4 hours over the volcanic landscape surrounding Reykjavik! Type rating for the following aircraft are in my logbook... Reims/Cessna C-152 Piper PA-28-161 Cadet Piper PA-28181 Archer II Saab/MFI-15 200A Safari/Supporter ...and I have also piloted the following types of aircraft Zlin 242 American Champion Aircraft Super Decathlon Saab 105 (SK-60) Schweitzer/Hughes 300 Vans RV6 I have performed manouvers such as spin, looping, barrel roll, quick roll, straight roll, wingover, stall, dives etc... On the more notable side I have done some formation flying incl. take off and landing in formation and I have flown to/from a frozen lake (ice).