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llanfairpg,
No offence meant! I had assumed you were joking.... especially from your comment about ppls
No offence meant! I had assumed you were joking.... especially from your comment about ppls
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From: heathrow
No offence taken!!!
I love PPLs but experience brings skill, knowledge, relaxation and confidence which is a great help in a busy circuit. We all know that the PPL enviroment is a very wide belt of experience and having spent many 1000s of hours sitting by students and PPLs in circuits I know that some do not have the lookout skills they should have. What is more worrying is that some, possibly due to poor instruction, are not seemingly aware of the increased risk of collision inside an ATZ.
All the above mean that when i join a circuit ,I am concerned for my saferty and that of my passengers and will manoerve my a/c as appropriate, I cannot guarantee this will in accordance with the ANO, i would like to think it would be. What i can guarantee is that it will not be in accordance with fok lore which gives us what I call 'flying by numbers' such as square circuits, 1000 feet circuit height, always climb straight ahead. never turn back after EFATO, always join overhead etc etc
I love PPLs but experience brings skill, knowledge, relaxation and confidence which is a great help in a busy circuit. We all know that the PPL enviroment is a very wide belt of experience and having spent many 1000s of hours sitting by students and PPLs in circuits I know that some do not have the lookout skills they should have. What is more worrying is that some, possibly due to poor instruction, are not seemingly aware of the increased risk of collision inside an ATZ.
All the above mean that when i join a circuit ,I am concerned for my saferty and that of my passengers and will manoerve my a/c as appropriate, I cannot guarantee this will in accordance with the ANO, i would like to think it would be. What i can guarantee is that it will not be in accordance with fok lore which gives us what I call 'flying by numbers' such as square circuits, 1000 feet circuit height, always climb straight ahead. never turn back after EFATO, always join overhead etc etc
Last edited by llanfairpg; 7th December 2007 at 13:11.
