Christmas Presents!
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Christmas Presents!
Hi all, now it's December I thought I'd bring Christmas cheer to everybody!
Think this is the right forum....I'd like to know whether anybody has any recommendations for inexpensive flying-related kit (OK, I know thats an oxymoron!) to add to my list for Santa this year.
Anybody use specific items that they swear by for their private flying? I'm happy with my usual items, maps, flight guides, nav rulers and protractors etc etc. but what I'd really like to know is if there's anything I can add to my flightbag that's a little more unexpected but comes in handy?
Thoroughly hope this throws up some nuggets that I can use for the rest of my life!
A38
Think this is the right forum....I'd like to know whether anybody has any recommendations for inexpensive flying-related kit (OK, I know thats an oxymoron!) to add to my list for Santa this year.
Anybody use specific items that they swear by for their private flying? I'm happy with my usual items, maps, flight guides, nav rulers and protractors etc etc. but what I'd really like to know is if there's anything I can add to my flightbag that's a little more unexpected but comes in handy?
Thoroughly hope this throws up some nuggets that I can use for the rest of my life!
A38
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A battery-operated mobile phone charger (for when it goes flat just as you are trying to fix PPR or get a METAR).
ID (for when Security jobsworths shout "Oi, you")
A tabard (to reduce the chances of Security jobsworths shouting "Oi, you").
A Mars bar (nourishment whilst detained by Security jobsworths whilst they flex their muscles making telephone enquiries about you).
ID (for when Security jobsworths shout "Oi, you")
A tabard (to reduce the chances of Security jobsworths shouting "Oi, you").
A Mars bar (nourishment whilst detained by Security jobsworths whilst they flex their muscles making telephone enquiries about you).
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I've been keeping a Leatherman-type tool in my flying bag for a while in the expectation it may come in very handy at some point. But the only use I've found for it so far is repeatedly refastening spats on PA28s!
It's an easy way to carry pliers, a variety of screwdrivers, and cutting and stripping blades of various sorts.
Merry Christmas!
tp
It's an easy way to carry pliers, a variety of screwdrivers, and cutting and stripping blades of various sorts.
Merry Christmas!
tp
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Just be careful that said "security jobsworth" doesn't confiscate said Leatherman tool on the grounds that you might attack the pilot with it 
And I'm not joking!
Cheers
Whirls
And I'm not joking!
Cheers
Whirls
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I have asked my wife to order me a couple of T-Shirts from here: www.bighillys.com - talk about seriously cool!
I think that you can still get 10% off if you order via this link: www.bighillys.com/flyer
John
I think that you can still get 10% off if you order via this link: www.bighillys.com/flyer
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Agree - unless you know you will always have access to a cig lighter, it has to be Garmin. The weather capability on the 496 is very handy, but the price doesn't qwuite fit the inexpensive requirement of Airbus38
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I think that you can still get 10% off if you order via this link: www.bighillys.com/flyer
John
John
I shan't say more as I don't want to get into trouble with L for advertising!!
Best wishes,
BH
