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Old 3rd February 2009 | 12:16
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VOD80
 
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Question Looking out of the window while VFR?
I’m coming back to flying and, wow, things have changed!

I originally started off by buying an Auster and then looking for an instructor to teach me to fly it. That was fun with Dave Coulson at Skeggy! Did the whole thing in minimum time over a winter. It was quite an experience to wake up in the Skeggy caravans and find the water in the toilets frozen over!

Aye, we were tough in those days…

Flew the Auster up and down France a few times with nothing but an upside down compass, a map and a watch. Did a lot of flying until about 1999 then stopped. Got my medical back in 2003 (I wear hearing aids now, so there was some trepidation!) but didn’t really fell the bug. Now, it’s alive in me again and I’m raring to go.

Except…

Now, everyone’s got GPS and can’t/won’t fly without it! I have a friend who took me for a flight at the end of last year – three GPS – for little more than little local flights around the patch!

So, does nobody look out of the window these days?
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