Victim of Blackmailing Scouser
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Zürich, Switzerland (But a Brit)
Age: 59
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FNG,
When I popped there a few months ago, the SuperCub was no longer at Andrewsfield.
I did about ten hours in Lindsay's J3 Cub at Bourn. One of the best experiences of my life, great aircraft, great flying, great instructor. The hard runways actually helped, seeing as landing a J3 properly even on grass is hard enough at the best of times. Chippy and SuperCub on grass was a doddle after that.
A happy Lindsay is one who's got a victim in front of him, preferably fighting a nasty crosswind. If the wind is down the runway, then he'll simply make you use the other. Rascal. I can still hear him shouting "Well done, son" or "Keep the bloody stick still!" with engine noise and wind whizzing past my right arm.
No radio, no intercom, no headphones, door open, cork-on-a-stick fuel guage, no buttons to press, not much to take one's attention from the business of flying.
TW (sigh)