Passing your Private Pilot's Licence is both an achievement and a passport to adventure. Often the challenge of flying from Denham to the Isle of Wight is an early adventure then as you and your flying friends gain more confidence you can venture across the English Channel to Le Touquet. From France it becomes possible to continue on to Spain or Germany, maybe Italy, or flying north across Belgium and Holland to Denmark and Sweden. Only your imagination, the weather and enough money to buy the aviation fuel will limit your adventures.

Soon you meet pilot groups who are planning a...