Originally Posted by
Grob Queen
Oh well, Genghis, now you've thrown down the gauntlet, I will bring the average age down and fly the flag for the female ppruners, will put differences aside and just try and twist Thing's arm again to give me a RHS for the next Pprune fly-in...that is of course if I can't come under my own wings by then
GQ
Darned right - aviation
should not be exclusively the domain of the white, male, and middle aged. But, it does seem that way far too often.
Originally Posted by Winhern
As one of the 12 who pulled out on the day, I am a newbie pilot with 25 hours P1. I was planning on flying up with my 10 year old daughter. The metars were reporting a cloudbase of 1500' to 1800' through the cold front, and the Sherburn website was reporting a cloudbase of ~1300' at the time I was due to set off. Whilst Genghis later reported that he was able to stay above 2000' on the trip up, I decided the cloud base was below my minima & stayed at home.
I can only apologise that I didn't NB when you texted me that you were going from EGTC as I was using an F172 with only a single pax and could have fitted you, and probably another passenger, in without any trouble at-all.
Originally Posted by Thing
Me in leather jacket. I must admit I thought Gheng would be a crusty old guy with maps stuffed down his boots and a big wristwatch. I wasn't expecting a young 'un.
I showed this post to my wife yesterday. She hasn't stopped laughing yet.
Anyhow - next one at the end of Summer?
G