Sarrfend LARging it
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Sarrfend LARging it
Always thought that Southend gave good FIS, but now it's even better as they're starting a LARS. Good stuff. How delightful to fly over all those estuaries whilst talking the Queen's Estuary English on the....
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.....that's true for fixed wing (except for all those bold characters in singles zipping about in the London City zone when it's closed, as mentioned on a thread a month or so ago) but presumably there's still good training opportunities for rotary pilots dahn Stepperney way, judging by the amount of nocturnal police helicopter activity (hopefully they are chasing the scumbags who've nicked my car, again). 
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Teenyweeny.
There you are alone at several hundreds of feet looking down on the beauty of the English countryside. Not being able to talk to anyone just magnifies the sensation of flying. I love looking at big houses in the countryside and wondering who lives there, who has lived there what has gone on in that house, etc, etc. Keeping a good lookout also enables you often to see other traffic before any helpful ATC bod alerts you to it.
Earlier this week, I saw a two-ship C130 formation (American) a good minute before the Norwich controller told me about them.
Yesterday Saarfend alerted me to an AA5 one mile in my 2 o'clock. I'd been watching it for a good 2 to 3 mins before they told him about me and then me about him.
I must confess that most of the time in uncontrolled airspace, I don't use the radio very much - just listen. Having a single seater makes one very solitary anyway!
Next navex, promise me you'll try to enjoy the views!
Stik
There you are alone at several hundreds of feet looking down on the beauty of the English countryside. Not being able to talk to anyone just magnifies the sensation of flying. I love looking at big houses in the countryside and wondering who lives there, who has lived there what has gone on in that house, etc, etc. Keeping a good lookout also enables you often to see other traffic before any helpful ATC bod alerts you to it.
Earlier this week, I saw a two-ship C130 formation (American) a good minute before the Norwich controller told me about them.
Yesterday Saarfend alerted me to an AA5 one mile in my 2 o'clock. I'd been watching it for a good 2 to 3 mins before they told him about me and then me about him.
I must confess that most of the time in uncontrolled airspace, I don't use the radio very much - just listen. Having a single seater makes one very solitary anyway!
Next navex, promise me you'll try to enjoy the views!
Stik
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30 miles radius of Southend - pretty standard for most LARS units. For more info have a look at http://www.ais.org.uk/uk_aip/pdf/enr/2010603.pdf
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30 miles radius of Southend - pretty standard for most LARS units. For more info have a look at http://www.ais.org.uk/uk_aip/pdf/enr/2010603.pdf
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Tend to agree with Stik on that one, Teeny. It's good to talk, but silence is also golden (well, as much silence as you get when there's 180 of Mr Lycoming's wheezy old nags yammering on just in front of you). Having the LARs and other services there for us is great, but (to persist with the dodgy eastend theme of the thread), it's kosher to keep shtum, wiv yer mincers well peeled.
"Oi, Sharon, don't 'ang yer 'andbag on the carb 'eat knob or yer'll get a slap" etc etc.
"Oi, Sharon, don't 'ang yer 'andbag on the carb 'eat knob or yer'll get a slap" etc etc.
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Partially it was a joke (hence the ) Partially it's because even though it might be nice to look around, as a PPL student you may be more concerned with keeping the plane straight and level (and on heading), so it can't hurt to have someone with a radar watching you. I appreciate it's limits (esp. with regard to SSR, or the lack of), but it can't hurt.
Also, it'll stop my appauling singing if I get interrupted by someone on the ground, even if it is just to say that that little black dot I've been watching for the past five minutes is in fact another a/c nowhere near me.
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) Partially it's because even though it might be nice to look around, as a PPL student you may be more concerned with keeping the plane straight and level (and on heading), so it can't hurt to have someone with a radar watching you. I appreciate it's limits (esp. with regard to SSR, or the lack of), but it can't hurt.Also, it'll stop my appauling singing if I get interrupted by someone on the ground, even if it is just to say that that little black dot I've been watching for the past five minutes is in fact another a/c nowhere near me.
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