Originally Posted by Genghis the Engineer
I'm sorry to say I missed it, but doubtless it'll get repeated sometime soon.
But on the brakes issue - those of us with lots of quality time in older microlights are very used to this. I can claim about 300 hrs on low performance aeroplanes without brakes. On grass, it's a non-issue, on a downslope on tarmac it can be quite exciting, but hard runways didn't exist during WW1 so that's a non-issue also.
I concur, I regularly fit brake pads/shoes on aircraft for folk who seem to live on the brakes. I too flew mirages/pathfinders/quicksilvers in the old days and got used to not having brakes.... in fact I put over 700 hours on the C42 and never fitted brakes, I only used them on strips <200m or when finishing up a parking manoeuvre from about 2mph.
Good programme, have it on disk if anyone wants it.