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Old 15th December 2003 | 17:37
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FlyingForFun

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If Lucifer is correct, then I'll wait for BEagle to post and prove me wrong. But when I've tried to find something similar myself, I've always come up with a complete blank. And I've taken the fact that nothing tells me that it's illegal to mean that it's legal.

(Purr - it is very common for pilots to hand the controls to their passengers, if the passengers are interested. My own rules for doing so are that I want to see the passenger comfortable with the sensations associated with flying, I want to be away from controlled and busy airspace, I want to be a safe distance from the ground, cloud, and anything that could even broadly be described as "weather", and I want to be totally confident about my current position. Only then will I say "do you fancy having a go?" And I never mention this to a passenger beforehand - there are so many reasons that it might not happen that if I mention it before the flight the passenger may well be disappointed if I decide not to let it happen.)

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