Popham 1st June, the list
Why do it if it's not fun?
Joined: Jul 2001
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From: Bournemouth
First of all, thanks guys for keeping this thread going while I've been too busy to do it myself.
Next, FNG, you're right - Genghis does seem to have missed me off! I'll definitely be going, probably in the Super Cub (unless I find a well-payed job before then which enables me to buy a share in my own aircraft!)
Now, as for the organising. I said I'm quite happy to organise this, but it seems to have been doing a good job of organising itself over the last few weeks, with some help from Genghis. I notice that Irv has also been doing a bit of organising in trying to enable students to fly in - an excellent idea, Irv, if it works. I'm more than happy to have any help I can get with the organisation, but this event looks like it's going to be very popular, and I'm a little worried about having too many chiefs and not enough indians. So, Genghis and Irv, can you both please e-mail me at [email protected] and we can swap phone numbers. The same goes for anyone else who wants to help out with the organisation. There's not that much organising to do - the list of people and aircraft going needs maintaining, and someone should let the guys at Popham know that we're coming - but at least if you guys who want to get involved make sure you're talking to me, I can make sure everything gets done, and nothing gets done twice. (I nearly always check my e-mail every day, even if I don't have time to read PPRuNe forums, so this should be effective!)
Cheers!
FFF. .-----------
Next, FNG, you're right - Genghis does seem to have missed me off! I'll definitely be going, probably in the Super Cub (unless I find a well-payed job before then which enables me to buy a share in my own aircraft!)
Now, as for the organising. I said I'm quite happy to organise this, but it seems to have been doing a good job of organising itself over the last few weeks, with some help from Genghis. I notice that Irv has also been doing a bit of organising in trying to enable students to fly in - an excellent idea, Irv, if it works. I'm more than happy to have any help I can get with the organisation, but this event looks like it's going to be very popular, and I'm a little worried about having too many chiefs and not enough indians. So, Genghis and Irv, can you both please e-mail me at [email protected] and we can swap phone numbers. The same goes for anyone else who wants to help out with the organisation. There's not that much organising to do - the list of people and aircraft going needs maintaining, and someone should let the guys at Popham know that we're coming - but at least if you guys who want to get involved make sure you're talking to me, I can make sure everything gets done, and nothing gets done twice. (I nearly always check my e-mail every day, even if I don't have time to read PPRuNe forums, so this should be effective!)
Cheers!
FFF. .-----------
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From: E Anglia
Suction
If you get a moment please re post your website URL.
I'm having probs with by ice age PC and have lost your site, but will def. be coming and can offer seats from E Anglia or anywhere en route(preferably one stop only)
Hoping to fly in lose formation with Stik : not sure if anyone has fixed to pick up the Kentish Fledgling.
. .Cheers
Cusco
If you get a moment please re post your website URL.
I'm having probs with by ice age PC and have lost your site, but will def. be coming and can offer seats from E Anglia or anywhere en route(preferably one stop only)
Hoping to fly in lose formation with Stik : not sure if anyone has fixed to pick up the Kentish Fledgling.
. .Cheers
Cusco
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From: EGLD
Cusco - no problem, the URL is <a href="http://www.shortfinals.flyer.co.uk" target="_blank">http://www.shortfinals.flyer.co.uk</a>
(bcfc - many thanks !)
By my reckoning - there are 42 interested now.
Cheers
Suction
(bcfc - many thanks !)
By my reckoning - there are 42 interested now.
Cheers
Suction
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From: Norfolk
Hershie - the 2 hole Pitts is available but at a price!
Cusco - spoke to young Kent dweller last night, he's skiing with Dad at my my friend's gaff.
Will ensure that he is aware of the fly-in. He looks at Pprune but there is no PC in the chalet!
Hope to fly this w/e if you are about.
Stik
Cusco - spoke to young Kent dweller last night, he's skiing with Dad at my my friend's gaff.
Will ensure that he is aware of the fly-in. He looks at Pprune but there is no PC in the chalet!
Hope to fly this w/e if you are about.
Stik
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From: E Anglia
MdR and Stik
For Popham from my strip its a dogleg E of London city then DET-BIG-OCK through Mig alley.
No probs therefore to pop in to Rochester to pick up Kentish fledgling, while Stik does a few noisy purple circuits overhead and annoys the locals with some aeros.
However if you're who I think you are MdR you're based at Rochester anyway and you might like to do the honours: just a thought: such enthusiasm needs encouraging.
No probs either way.
Stik: my flying this weekend I'm afraid will be restricted to flying the Arrow down to N Weald on Sunday for its annual and notice 75.
However, if there are any hours left (only 7 end Dec) I might be able to come out to play on Sat.
Good job I've got 2 weeks in Florida at end of next week for some serious instrument practice.
Cheers
For Popham from my strip its a dogleg E of London city then DET-BIG-OCK through Mig alley.
No probs therefore to pop in to Rochester to pick up Kentish fledgling, while Stik does a few noisy purple circuits overhead and annoys the locals with some aeros.
However if you're who I think you are MdR you're based at Rochester anyway and you might like to do the honours: just a thought: such enthusiasm needs encouraging.
No probs either way.
Stik: my flying this weekend I'm afraid will be restricted to flying the Arrow down to N Weald on Sunday for its annual and notice 75.
However, if there are any hours left (only 7 end Dec) I might be able to come out to play on Sat.
Good job I've got 2 weeks in Florida at end of next week for some serious instrument practice.
Cheers
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From: Location, Location
Stik - I'll take a guess at what the cost of the 2 seater is and just ask for a look round the purple monster on the ground instead!
Maybe one of those 'hot and high' final approaches would be enough to scare the wits out of a not-qualified-yet-PPL anyway...? Nah!
Hersh
Maybe one of those 'hot and high' final approaches would be enough to scare the wits out of a not-qualified-yet-PPL anyway...? Nah!
Hersh
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From: Norfolk
Cusco,
MdR is NOT who you think he is! More paediatric than geriatric!
How long a grass strip do you need for the Arrer?
Hope that we bump into each (not literally) on Sat as the wx looks v flyable so far.
Stik
ps - Hershie the 2A works out at £3/minute wet and has just come out of annual. If you are ever in Norwich we could do 20 mins perhaps?
MdR is NOT who you think he is! More paediatric than geriatric!
How long a grass strip do you need for the Arrer?
Hope that we bump into each (not literally) on Sat as the wx looks v flyable so far.
Stik
ps - Hershie the 2A works out at £3/minute wet and has just come out of annual. If you are ever in Norwich we could do 20 mins perhaps?
Why do it if it's not fun?
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From: Bournemouth
Well done Irv!
For those students who think they'll be able to con an instructor into joining them, or even letting them solo, Irv has negotiated a £5 landing fee, including several touch+go's if you want, at Blackbushe. (Don't know exactly what their regular landing fee is - my airport guide says "from £14.89 + VAT")
So, the plan is as follows:
<ul type="square">[*]Fly to Blackbushe. (Get PPR first - not only to get practice of getting PPR, but also to confirm the PPRuNe landing-fee!) Since this is a licensed field, you can log this flight.. .[*]Do a few touch+goes. Because of landing fees, students in the UK hardly ever get to do touch+goes at unfamiliar airfields, so take the chance while you've got it!. .[*]Once you depart Blackbushe, your instructor becomes P1, and you can't log the short flight to Popham.. .[*]If you're solo, you'll need to park your aircraft at Blackbushe, and call me on my mobile - I'll arrange for someone to come and ferry you to Popham, and ferry you back again afterwards.. .[/list]
Any pilots who are happy to ferry students, can you please let me know? The more ferry pilots we have, the fewer trips each of us will have to make. I think it would be great to get as many student pilots down as we possibly can!
(Or alternatively, if you're going past Blackbushe, or even based there, let me know, and I'll try to put you in touch with a student who you can pick up on the way.)
FFF. .--------
For those students who think they'll be able to con an instructor into joining them, or even letting them solo, Irv has negotiated a £5 landing fee, including several touch+go's if you want, at Blackbushe. (Don't know exactly what their regular landing fee is - my airport guide says "from £14.89 + VAT")
So, the plan is as follows:
<ul type="square">[*]Fly to Blackbushe. (Get PPR first - not only to get practice of getting PPR, but also to confirm the PPRuNe landing-fee!) Since this is a licensed field, you can log this flight.. .[*]Do a few touch+goes. Because of landing fees, students in the UK hardly ever get to do touch+goes at unfamiliar airfields, so take the chance while you've got it!. .[*]Once you depart Blackbushe, your instructor becomes P1, and you can't log the short flight to Popham.. .[*]If you're solo, you'll need to park your aircraft at Blackbushe, and call me on my mobile - I'll arrange for someone to come and ferry you to Popham, and ferry you back again afterwards.. .[/list]
Any pilots who are happy to ferry students, can you please let me know? The more ferry pilots we have, the fewer trips each of us will have to make. I think it would be great to get as many student pilots down as we possibly can!
(Or alternatively, if you're going past Blackbushe, or even based there, let me know, and I'll try to put you in touch with a student who you can pick up on the way.)
FFF. .--------
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From: Ready to Depart
I'm a 'probable' for this one:. .It's not my week on the kite...
G-AYDZ - Jodel DR.200 - Enstone.
[she's a four-seater, but other group members may want the spare seats. If there are any left, then I'll offer them out. Departures from Enstone and Oxford (if the pax pays the landing fees)]
G-AYDZ - Jodel DR.200 - Enstone.
[she's a four-seater, but other group members may want the spare seats. If there are any left, then I'll offer them out. Departures from Enstone and Oxford (if the pax pays the landing fees)]
Not so N, but still FG
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From: London, UK
FFF, I can ferry people to and from Blackbushe if need be, but perhaps a better suggestion is to make the Cap available for 20 minute aeros trips for those who might want such things.