Pegasus Flying Club & Aberdeen Aero Club
 

Pegasus Flying Club, Dyce, Aberdeen. Owner & CFI, Peter Forbes

Aberdeen Aero Club Dyce, Aberdeen. Owner, William Hanton, CFI, Roger Tribe, Jon Price, Martin Isterling and various others.

I am interested in hearing from anyone who instructed at or who was a student at either of these flying clubs/schools in the 70s and 80s for a forthcoming website, any pictures would be very useful.

Pegasus also had instructors who visited Sumburgh, Dornoch and Kirkwall.

Aberdeen Aero Club supplied an instructor for the early formation of the Bannf Flying Club from Bannf airfield.

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Remember them well. Bill Hanton junior went on to fly with DanAir, Roger Tribe I think went to Loganair.Peter Forbes had other business interests in Orkney. No relevant pics I'm afraid.

Bill jnr was ops director at BMI regional last year. Roger Tribe left Loganair and went to Brymon at Plymouth.

I think PF previously was involved in a dry cleaning business in EDN of GLA. He died a few years ago and was last living in Stonehaven.

I survived Pegasus through to PPL/IMC stage at ABZ in 1985....... Might have the odd photo of surely now defunct Cessna 152.

Anyone else remember Aberdeen Approach's genuinely humorous line...
"Romeo Romeo wherefore art thou..." (150 Aerobat G-BFRR as I recall)

Or the immortal line before being asked to do something unpleasant and almost certainly illegal..."Come on in and share a 'Morangie..."

Sad to hear Peter's slipped the 'surly bonds' though... He was one of a kind.

Red Triumph Stag in car park = bad day
No Red Triumph Stag in car park = good day.

Peter F used to live just over the hill from me. Occasionally he'd wander down to the hangar for a chat during the summer. Must be just over 10 years ago he last showed up (I think he died the following year).

I used to fly RR courtesy of the late John Campbell - another character and one who was somewhat easier on the wallet!

If you're in the area Martin is still sround and flies from Insch.

Which hill and hangar?

Pegasua Tingwall
 

I was a studend of the Pegasus offshoot at Tingwall in Shetland during 1978. I was in fact the first solo flight for that particular club. i well remember Peter (Forbes) getting out of the aircraft C152 G-BDOD with the words "onec round the circuit and don't bend the bloody thing". Would love to hear of other students of PF and love to hear from my instructors Gordon Jack and John Gifford.

Stay around will be putting a web site together soon

The hill and hangar are at Cheyne. Peter lived a little to the NW off the Slug

Anyone know what happened to his son and wife?

Sorry to learn of Peter Forbes passing. A real character whose personality really shone through. I recall him coming down to Leicester for a FI renewal with me in the early 1980's. His briefing was original but comprehesive, his flying ability good and his instructional technique above average. When it came to the finer points of technical knowledge there was a bit to be desired however he took my critique well and promised faithfully to brush up on this area. I renewed his rating and we said our goodbyes but as a parting gesture he produced a fine bottle of Glenmorangie. Had I not already signed his rating I might have been tempted not to do so at such a blatant bribe. It went down well though.......!!!!

May you rest in peace Peter.

Cheers,

Reaper 69
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You're not trying to tell us that bottle of Glenmorangie is finished already Barry?:{

My other half did her PPL in the eighties with Pegasus, starting out with PF. Notable memories were going to Kirkwall on soloX country, another student being dispatched in the other direction so there could be no cheating... and getting back late. No sign of other chap on return, discovered that he had made a forced landing after what was probably carburettor icing. Nice big field but sadly acrosss the furrows so he couped the Cessna. Not hurt but Peter was pretty cross. DS where are you now? did you ever get your licence?
On an earlier lesson with then new instructor Tim Mason (his first day?) landed back at Aberdeen a couple of minutes after airfield closing and incurring a huge bill. It was the day of the Hillsborough disaster and security were glued to the TV and so they had to break out of the airfield.

Just in the last stage of putting the website together.

PF was a great lover of Glenmorangie and used to run a competion with the change of surface on the main runway which he used to call his Glenmorangie line. If you landed on it you got a bottle!

Just in the last stage of putting the website together. Pictures????

PF was a great lover of Glenmorangie and used to run a competion with the change of surface on the main runway which he used to call his Glenmorangie line. If you landed on it you got a bottle, very few could, he was no fool!

I remember Roger Tribe at Brymon, what a nice guy, as sound as a pound.

I occupied the RHS with him in a twotter PLH-ISC-PLH, it was hilarious, we flew low level, not that a twotter can get very high anyway, all the way back, it was a very enjoyable afternoon.

Do you know where Roger is now, he was CFI at Aberdeen Aero Club--

(he once landed at Lossie in a Trilander with zero forward visiblity(PAR) )

Pegasus Flying Club
 

I worked and trained at Pegasus during the eighties, ( still have forearms like Popeye from refuelling via the old handcrank bowser ).

Halcyon days, and oh, what an upbrining for an impressionable teenager. Summer evenings in the old clubhouse, stories jokes and laughter, the air thick with cigar / cigarette smoke, and the unmistakable aroma of the famed 'Morangie hanging around the nostrils.

Yes, Peter made his final departure a few years ago, and though he could undoubtably be a rogue, I remember him with a genuine affection.

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