OK so how about your best flight and why?
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OK so how about your best flight and why?
good things don't usually make news.
what made it your best flight?
other than always arriving in one piece+
baggage there, customs professional, arrived on-time, it wasn't raining etc.
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what made it your best flight?
other than always arriving in one piece+
baggage there, customs professional, arrived on-time, it wasn't raining etc.
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Ah my best flight has to be the first time I was allowed jumpseat when flying from London to Dublin. I asked about 10 minutes into the flight, got the most adorable crew. I think it was a Boeing 200 series aircraft. The instrument panel was down low enough for me to see everything when I was seated (hate when it isn't) and I was allowed to stand for alot of the flight while the captain explained all the controls to me. Naturally me being me we had a good male versus female slagging match which added to the entertainment (God do I ever stop). But the best bit had to be coming into land with the runway lit up & a birdseye view over Dublin airport. I was on cloud nine for months afterwards. Beats sitting in the cabin anyday.
SIERRA
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My best flight? Can I have two? The first flight I ever made, when I was around seven and the family was off to Spain or somewhere like that on a Clarkson's special. I can't remember anything much about the aircraft type, but I do remember that on landing various bits of the engine hinged out -- "Oooh, look!" I shouted loudly. "The engine's coming apart!" Cue much discomfort among surrounding passengers, and an announcement over the PA a few minutes later that this was a perfectly normal part of reverse thrust.
The other best one was a few months ago, when my retired country parson father took me up for the first time with his brand-new PPL in the somewhat less than brand-new flying club Cessna. Terrific fun, even if... well, families must have their secrets, eh?
R
The other best one was a few months ago, when my retired country parson father took me up for the first time with his brand-new PPL in the somewhat less than brand-new flying club Cessna. Terrific fun, even if... well, families must have their secrets, eh?
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Oh yes SLF
That reminds me. My first flight was to Spain when I was about 7 too. It was also the night the first men landed on the moon & me being a bit innocent kept looking out the window hoping to see them. Oh okay laugh if you may but I was a hell of alot closer to them tham most of you were
: That's when I caught the flying bug; the highlight of my holiday wasn't Majorca (& at that time Magaluf was like the Bahamas:eek no, I just couldn't wait to get back on the plane again.
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That reminds me. My first flight was to Spain when I was about 7 too. It was also the night the first men landed on the moon & me being a bit innocent kept looking out the window hoping to see them. Oh okay laugh if you may but I was a hell of alot closer to them tham most of you were
: That's when I caught the flying bug; the highlight of my holiday wasn't Majorca (& at that time Magaluf was like the Bahamas:eek no, I just couldn't wait to get back on the plane again.SIERRA
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Best Flight.........
Many light years ago when a certain American airline flew to SYD from HNL...
Got on board the flight a row to myself, plenty of space when a basketball comes my way. It eventuates that the Harlem Globe Trotters were giving lessons on board on their way to a visit dunnunder. The whole flight was a buzz with people shooting basketballs in and out of overhead cabin lockers.... much to the delight of flight attendants....
Invited to the games in Sydney for free and asked back to the VIP party! A total blast.
Many light years ago when a certain American airline flew to SYD from HNL...
Got on board the flight a row to myself, plenty of space when a basketball comes my way. It eventuates that the Harlem Globe Trotters were giving lessons on board on their way to a visit dunnunder. The whole flight was a buzz with people shooting basketballs in and out of overhead cabin lockers.... much to the delight of flight attendants....
Invited to the games in Sydney for free and asked back to the VIP party! A total blast.
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EGGP-EIDW on a 737-200 not too long ago...
Captain & F/O allowed me onto the flight deck before start up, and there I stayed until shut down, in fact for quite a while afterwards!! Brilliant experience.
So if anyone from FR is out there, once again thank you!!
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Captain & F/O allowed me onto the flight deck before start up, and there I stayed until shut down, in fact for quite a while afterwards!! Brilliant experience.
So if anyone from FR is out there, once again thank you!!
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I've had many many good ones. Two come to mind -
First flight - BOAC Stratocruiser "Canopus", only six but learned what "engine run-up" meant big time.Routing, if I remember correctly was Ringway-Prestwick-Shannon (everyone got off and had a big meal in the terminal)-Gander-Dorval.
A little later in life: A320, Calgary - Vancouver - jump seat.
An hours flight, an hour and a half before sunset,cavu, over the Rockies.
Does not get much better than that.
First flight - BOAC Stratocruiser "Canopus", only six but learned what "engine run-up" meant big time.Routing, if I remember correctly was Ringway-Prestwick-Shannon (everyone got off and had a big meal in the terminal)-Gander-Dorval.
A little later in life: A320, Calgary - Vancouver - jump seat.
An hours flight, an hour and a half before sunset,cavu, over the Rockies.
Does not get much better than that.
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Yeah Kopbhoy2
FR are the best. Wonder did you have any of the same crew members as I had. Last jumpseat was on an MD-80 I think. Wasn't as good as the Boeing as the instrument panel was up too high & I could see nought outside & the leg room was very restricted. Got up for everything too & they we're very kind to let me because it was a very short flight & I know it is a privilege to be let stay at all. FR have some really lovely fellas working for them, couldn't be beaten.
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FR are the best. Wonder did you have any of the same crew members as I had. Last jumpseat was on an MD-80 I think. Wasn't as good as the Boeing as the instrument panel was up too high & I could see nought outside & the leg room was very restricted. Got up for everything too & they we're very kind to let me because it was a very short flight & I know it is a privilege to be let stay at all. FR have some really lovely fellas working for them, couldn't be beaten.
SIERRA
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"Best flight"
On this topic, I will speak for one of my family member who died peacefully at the venerable age of 92.
He flew twice in his life and his best flight was the second one in the late 70's.
A marvellous jump seat ride in a DC-8.
He get the jump seat when the Captain learned that his first flight occured in 1917 on board of a biplan "Voisin"....
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On this topic, I will speak for one of my family member who died peacefully at the venerable age of 92.
He flew twice in his life and his best flight was the second one in the late 70's.
A marvellous jump seat ride in a DC-8.
He get the jump seat when the Captain learned that his first flight occured in 1917 on board of a biplan "Voisin"....
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I have 2.
The first one was July 20 1987 when I went solo for the first time. Nuff said there!
The second one was last Fri. It was my last flight for the company (changing jobs). A short run up the QLD coast to Cooktown, wx was stunning, view sensational.
It was my leg back, Cairns on dusk. We got vectored around some traffic that would have otherwise held us up by 10 min or so. Greaser of a landing
The only sour note, I was 2 hours late to my own farewell!
The first one was July 20 1987 when I went solo for the first time. Nuff said there!
The second one was last Fri. It was my last flight for the company (changing jobs). A short run up the QLD coast to Cooktown, wx was stunning, view sensational.
It was my leg back, Cairns on dusk. We got vectored around some traffic that would have otherwise held us up by 10 min or so. Greaser of a landing
The only sour note, I was 2 hours late to my own farewell!
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Sierra,
yeah they were the biz alright, really nice people, loads of advice etc....
Redsnail
I'm not jealous. Honestly I'm not, I mean who would want to be flying around the Queensland coast when you can be stuck in rain & clouds in Europe?!
Have to say it, last saturday flying back past Maynooth on the way into Weston after a very good lesson felt great...
yeah they were the biz alright, really nice people, loads of advice etc....
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I'm not jealous. Honestly I'm not, I mean who would want to be flying around the Queensland coast when you can be stuck in rain & clouds in Europe?!
Have to say it, last saturday flying back past Maynooth on the way into Weston after a very good lesson felt great...
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My best flight was on 23/10/99, EGCC - LEMG - EGCC.
The day was started off great by about 6 hours in ATC.
All of the flight I was sat in the jumpseat of a B757.
This was my first ever and still remains my only ever jumpseat ride.
One key factor that made it the best ever was that I had the wonderful company of Capt. PPRuNe.
This flight gave me loads more enthusiasm and made me even more determined to become an airline pilot.
Darren
The day was started off great by about 6 hours in ATC.
All of the flight I was sat in the jumpseat of a B757.
This was my first ever and still remains my only ever jumpseat ride.
One key factor that made it the best ever was that I had the wonderful company of Capt. PPRuNe.
This flight gave me loads more enthusiasm and made me even more determined to become an airline pilot.
Darren
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Mrs Claret's mother, in about the 1920's, went for a barn storming joy flight, out of Cloncurry, with some bloke called Hudson-Fysh, who was raising money for some airline he wanted to start.
Her fiance, the local bank manager broke off the engagement, because as a single woman she had been un chapperoned with a man, bugger the fact that it was a two cocpit bi plane, and what's more, he, Hudson-Fysh, dipped his wing!
True story!
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Her fiance, the local bank manager broke off the engagement, because as a single woman she had been un chapperoned with a man, bugger the fact that it was a two cocpit bi plane, and what's more, he, Hudson-Fysh, dipped his wing!
True story!
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.........flying in a DC 3 Dakota (backdoor was taken out) with an Special Forcs A Team into the sunset and doing a night jump over a dried salt lake close to Cedar City,Utah.
plane waited on the next landing strip and took me all the way back home.
just me and the cockpit crew, spent the landing standing next to the pilot. great view.
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get up,hook up, shuffle through the door......
plane waited on the next landing strip and took me all the way back home.
just me and the cockpit crew, spent the landing standing next to the pilot. great view.
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get up,hook up, shuffle through the door......