What turns you on?
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any special flights which stand in your mind ?
Made the beer taste extra special that night, that is for sure!
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Say no more... does it for me every time
Say no more... does it for me every time
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piece of cardboad in the panel where the wx radar used to be, and flying in IMC with embedded Cb's around....
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I will never get over the exitement of the engine catching and winding up. It doen't matter what it is or where. That feeling of wonder never leaves me. Then turning on to the active, winding her up and letting her go. There is nothing more wonderful. sigh
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Yeah aand those too, ok it is flying that urns us on innit? I am sitting here dribbling tears of nostalgia all over me keyboard. I even loved the bollockings when I was a stude.
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Perfect Flying day
Walking 20m from my back door to my hangar.
Pulling out the robinson and flying by helicopter from my garden hangar to the airport.
Park helicopter, 2 min walk across the tarmac, pull out fixed wing and off within 15mins on an IFR flight plan to somewhere at least 3 countries away, at least 15C hotter and at least 3 en-route charts distant - now that's a proper journey!
Best flying moments -
First solo in C150 at Van Nuys CA 1994.
First night VFR over LA 1994 - very pretty at night.
First solo ILS in hard IFR 2000. Seeing the approach lights is a great feeling. Having got there without an instructor sitting next to you, what a kick.
First go-around in hard IFR - now that can be disorientating!
Seeing blue - popping out through the far side of a frontal system after crossing it and riding out the bumps and ice (fortunately infrequently but I get a palpable sense of relief every time).
Every time I cross the Alps - usually RIPUS to ODINA at FL150/160. First time I did it was at night in light rain (I didn't get a chance to check out the scenery) with an ILS to land at Milano Linate, after the clean Swiss air the burning smell of all the pollution in the Po valley almost convinced me I had an engine fire!
Climbing out through the tops of an 8000ft thick icy foggy overcast on my way back from Milan to Plymouth following the SID from Linate. The met people told me it would be no more than 1000ft thick!
The best feeling has to be: every time I fill up my long range tanks in Jersey and give 2 fingers to our chancellor Alistair Darling, now that is up there with the best of them.
SB
Pulling out the robinson and flying by helicopter from my garden hangar to the airport.
Park helicopter, 2 min walk across the tarmac, pull out fixed wing and off within 15mins on an IFR flight plan to somewhere at least 3 countries away, at least 15C hotter and at least 3 en-route charts distant - now that's a proper journey!
Best flying moments -
First solo in C150 at Van Nuys CA 1994.
First night VFR over LA 1994 - very pretty at night.
First solo ILS in hard IFR 2000. Seeing the approach lights is a great feeling. Having got there without an instructor sitting next to you, what a kick.
First go-around in hard IFR - now that can be disorientating!
Seeing blue - popping out through the far side of a frontal system after crossing it and riding out the bumps and ice (fortunately infrequently but I get a palpable sense of relief every time).
Every time I cross the Alps - usually RIPUS to ODINA at FL150/160. First time I did it was at night in light rain (I didn't get a chance to check out the scenery) with an ILS to land at Milano Linate, after the clean Swiss air the burning smell of all the pollution in the Po valley almost convinced me I had an engine fire!
Climbing out through the tops of an 8000ft thick icy foggy overcast on my way back from Milan to Plymouth following the SID from Linate. The met people told me it would be no more than 1000ft thick!
The best feeling has to be: every time I fill up my long range tanks in Jersey and give 2 fingers to our chancellor Alistair Darling, now that is up there with the best of them.
SB
