When the sun goes down.
Many years ago, in the early days of PathFinder, a solo navigation student took forever to get organised, left an hour late, had great conversations with the locals at the stops along the way and when it was obvious that they were not going to make back to Archerfield before last light, pressed on regardless. Two instructors on the ground watched helplessly as the student attempted their first night landing. If our reaction to the above was a shrug of […]