Top 10 things to do when u get your PPL licence?
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Great ideas everyone, got anymore? I'd like to buy a really cheap plane and fly the pants off it around europe tryin to see everything there is to see! It's like the TV program on BBC 2 now with Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman riding on motorbikes to Cape Town from John O'Groats. It's called Long Way Down.
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haha yeah thats what i'd call it, if any TV producers are in these forums i'd like to talk terms!!!
Would love to do it but i wouldn't know where to start or where to go, just so much to see n do in Europe.
James
Would love to do it but i wouldn't know where to start or where to go, just so much to see n do in Europe.
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I'm quite pleased to discover that I am apparently quite normal.
Not necessarily in this order.
1 Fly the Chipmunk (I've started so I'll finish)
2 Buy a cheap taildragger & fly the guts out of it (after the Chipmunk)
3 Fly gliders (done that, it helps with the Chipmunk)
4 Fly family & friends (doing that)
5 Get checked out on the rest of the club fleet
6 Tour the UK to it's extents
7 Learn "strip flying"
8 Buy a GPS & find out what all the fuss is about
9 Attend fly-outs etc
10 Hope the NPPL will one day allow me "foreign"
11 Never get pedantic about other people's minor or major spelling / grammatical errors & wander off track chuntering on about them.
Not necessarily in this order.
1 Fly the Chipmunk (I've started so I'll finish)
2 Buy a cheap taildragger & fly the guts out of it (after the Chipmunk)
3 Fly gliders (done that, it helps with the Chipmunk)
4 Fly family & friends (doing that)
5 Get checked out on the rest of the club fleet
6 Tour the UK to it's extents
7 Learn "strip flying"
8 Buy a GPS & find out what all the fuss is about
9 Attend fly-outs etc
10 Hope the NPPL will one day allow me "foreign"
11 Never get pedantic about other people's minor or major spelling / grammatical errors & wander off track chuntering on about them.
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1. buy a cheap aircraft, fast ecomonical PFA type.
2. build hundreds of hours in it until you...
3. get frustrated by the weather and get a certified type you can fly IFR in in most weather
4. Get your IR and put it to good use in your super duper aircraft
5. fly IFR internationally in airways (esp across the alps and to big airports)
6. Realise that for most trips within the UK helicopters are faster and more versatile
7. get an R22 helicopter and do your PPL(H) in it and keep it in your shed
8. extend the shed, do the helicopter night qualification, put a pilot controlled lighting system in and get an R44.
9. fly to Tresco, Burgh Island, Paris Heliport, London Helilanes at night
10. Be a smug git and post it on PPRUNE.
SB
2. build hundreds of hours in it until you...
3. get frustrated by the weather and get a certified type you can fly IFR in in most weather
4. Get your IR and put it to good use in your super duper aircraft
5. fly IFR internationally in airways (esp across the alps and to big airports)
6. Realise that for most trips within the UK helicopters are faster and more versatile
7. get an R22 helicopter and do your PPL(H) in it and keep it in your shed
8. extend the shed, do the helicopter night qualification, put a pilot controlled lighting system in and get an R44.
9. fly to Tresco, Burgh Island, Paris Heliport, London Helilanes at night
10. Be a smug git and post it on PPRUNE.
SB
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Good Stuff
1) Learn to fly at night
2) Do the IMC Rating
3) Do a Complex Airplane (Aeroplane) Rating
4) Do a Multi Engine rating (for the challenge)
5) Whenever you go abroad on hols, check out at the local flying club
6) Do a Tailwheel Endorsement
7) Get your Glider Licence
8) Push your envelope - Aeros/Spot Landings/Flyouts/Fly Ins/Short Strip
9) Fly abroad - Go to Catalina Island and Big Bear in Southern California
or go to South Africa and fly the garden route out of Stellenbosch or Cape
Town. Fly the Arizona desert, drop in to Sedona, or mix it with the heavies
at LAX or SNA. Try Seattle, and rent from Boeing Field, and fly to all the
airfields that Boeing have a plant at...
10) Buy a share in the aeroplane of your choice, and go FLY
I am privileged in that I have been able to do all of these things.
Hopefully, I will do more and more before I hang up my headset for the last time!
2) Do the IMC Rating
3) Do a Complex Airplane (Aeroplane) Rating
4) Do a Multi Engine rating (for the challenge)
5) Whenever you go abroad on hols, check out at the local flying club
6) Do a Tailwheel Endorsement
7) Get your Glider Licence
8) Push your envelope - Aeros/Spot Landings/Flyouts/Fly Ins/Short Strip
9) Fly abroad - Go to Catalina Island and Big Bear in Southern California
or go to South Africa and fly the garden route out of Stellenbosch or Cape
Town. Fly the Arizona desert, drop in to Sedona, or mix it with the heavies
at LAX or SNA. Try Seattle, and rent from Boeing Field, and fly to all the
airfields that Boeing have a plant at...
10) Buy a share in the aeroplane of your choice, and go FLY
I am privileged in that I have been able to do all of these things.
Hopefully, I will do more and more before I hang up my headset for the last time!
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Join the Mile High club?
Wouldn't that be a little risky in a 172?!?! Fun nevertheless!!!
James
Many years ago (20-25) I read an accident report to the effect (IIRC) that a light aircraft had crashed into the sea off the US somewhere. Examination of the remains showed that both pilot and passenger were drunk and that the 20 something female passenger was going down on the pensionable male pilot at the moment of impact. My mind boggled then and still does!
Join the Mile High club?
Wouldn't that be a little risky in a 172?!?! Fun nevertheless!!!
James
Many years ago (20-25) I read an accident report to the effect (IIRC) that a light aircraft had crashed into the sea off the US somewhere. Examination of the remains showed that both pilot and passenger were drunk and that the 20 something female passenger was going down on the pensionable male pilot at the moment of impact. My mind boggled then and still does!
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1.Improve your skills demonstrably
2.Try entering flying competitions
3.win a few spot landing competitions
4.Try the sport of Rally Flying
5.Show off the trophies and prizes you have won.
6.Try Precision Flying
7.Represent UK in International Flying events
8.Aspire to be proved amongst the best.
9.Enjoy the fun atmosphere and cameraderie
10.Show off with your UK Team shirt
2.Try entering flying competitions
3.win a few spot landing competitions
4.Try the sport of Rally Flying
5.Show off the trophies and prizes you have won.
6.Try Precision Flying
7.Represent UK in International Flying events
8.Aspire to be proved amongst the best.
9.Enjoy the fun atmosphere and cameraderie
10.Show off with your UK Team shirt
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Two ideas which haven't been mentioned yet:
1 Arrange a visit to D&D where someone will talk to you and explain how they work. It's well worth while making the effort to do this and it could save your life one day. (Don't forget to take some decent biccies with you as a "Thank you.")
2 Attend a CAA Safety Evening - for all we may moan about them, this is one thing they do well. Don't forget to get your logbook stamped, I'm told that having that stamp may reduce the amount you pay for insurance as, apparently, nobody who has been to one of these events has been involved in a fatal accident. (It may even be simply "involved in a serious accident" but I can't remember exactly.)
1 Arrange a visit to D&D where someone will talk to you and explain how they work. It's well worth while making the effort to do this and it could save your life one day. (Don't forget to take some decent biccies with you as a "Thank you.")
2 Attend a CAA Safety Evening - for all we may moan about them, this is one thing they do well. Don't forget to get your logbook stamped, I'm told that having that stamp may reduce the amount you pay for insurance as, apparently, nobody who has been to one of these events has been involved in a fatal accident. (It may even be simply "involved in a serious accident" but I can't remember exactly.)
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Join the Mile High club?
Apparently cases of 'joining the club' in light aircraft are quite common....
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What I would Like to do
I would really like to take a group of people from here to Barbados. Long way round through Scotland Iceland Greenland Canada , states, Cayman Jamaica and Finally Barbados.
Would cost a fortune but I think for me it would be the trip of a life time. Think B200 would do the job best get saving up eh ....
I Used that great circle mapper to plan a trip to Nairobi too That would be a good way to put all the training intio practice..Anyone Fancy coming?
Would cost a fortune but I think for me it would be the trip of a life time. Think B200 would do the job best get saving up eh ....
I Used that great circle mapper to plan a trip to Nairobi too That would be a good way to put all the training intio practice..Anyone Fancy coming?
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What I did
1. Agonise for weeks as you wait for the license to finally arrive (£160 & 6 weeks later)
2. Attempt to take family flying, have them not fly due to wx and wonder why you are so into something that you rarely seem to get to do
3. Finally get some decent wx and take somebody on a jolly little brimble
4. Shock elder members of your family when you tell them how much it costs per hour
5. Wonder if you are current or not, go flying with an instructor again, realise the instructor that taught you to fly was the best in the world
6. Whenever you go on holiday contact the flying club and book in. Wonder if anybody else gets to fly a C172 over the grand canyon & hoover dam whilst on vacation in Las Vegas. Bet they don't. suckers
7. Do the night rating
8. Agonise if it's worth spending £900 on a flight that easyjet do for £150
9. Do a land away - not one that you've been to with somebody else before
10. Start looking across the channel with longing eyes
11. Wonder if you do actually need to eat since you could do the IR with your food money
2. Attempt to take family flying, have them not fly due to wx and wonder why you are so into something that you rarely seem to get to do
3. Finally get some decent wx and take somebody on a jolly little brimble
4. Shock elder members of your family when you tell them how much it costs per hour
5. Wonder if you are current or not, go flying with an instructor again, realise the instructor that taught you to fly was the best in the world
6. Whenever you go on holiday contact the flying club and book in. Wonder if anybody else gets to fly a C172 over the grand canyon & hoover dam whilst on vacation in Las Vegas. Bet they don't. suckers
7. Do the night rating
8. Agonise if it's worth spending £900 on a flight that easyjet do for £150
9. Do a land away - not one that you've been to with somebody else before
10. Start looking across the channel with longing eyes
11. Wonder if you do actually need to eat since you could do the IR with your food money
