Just being nosy.
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 340
Likes: 22
From: On BA58/59
1. Lapsed (2016) JAR PPL. Following a move to SA, the SA CAA are allowing me to pursue an SA PPL (having to sit all exams again...which is actually quite fun, then pass Skills Test)
2. 300
3. September 1999 G-BKSA C150 at Andrewsfield
4. Pure fun
2. 300
3. September 1999 G-BKSA C150 at Andrewsfield
4. Pure fun
Joined: Nov 2004
Aviation Qualifications: ATPL
Posts: 620
Likes: 136
From: UK
1. Gliding Silver 'C', Instructor. PPL(A) Instructor. Microlight X Examiner. CPL(H). ATPL(A).
2. Over 6,000.
3. First air experience 1973, PA28 G-AVWL Weston Super Mare. First lesson 1977 in Chipmunk, Filton Airport.
4. Fun, career, fun.
2. Over 6,000.
3. First air experience 1973, PA28 G-AVWL Weston Super Mare. First lesson 1977 in Chipmunk, Filton Airport.
4. Fun, career, fun.
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 1,901
Likes: 1
From: On the wireless...
1. PPL (SEP / MEP / IRR / Night / FI)
2. approx 2500
3. 1968, C150
4. PPL training was at that time an integral part of Air Traffic Control training, perpetuated thereafter for fun and professional knowledge.
2. approx 2500
3. 1968, C150
4. PPL training was at that time an integral part of Air Traffic Control training, perpetuated thereafter for fun and professional knowledge.
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 64
Likes: 0
From: Glasgow Scotland
1. PPL (SEP / Night)
2. 300
3. Trial lesson, Prestwick Airport, 2003, PA28 G -BDPA. Many more hours in it after taking the plunge!
4. Fun, and these days, to make an annual contribution to our engineer's pension fund!
2. 300
3. Trial lesson, Prestwick Airport, 2003, PA28 G -BDPA. Many more hours in it after taking the plunge!
4. Fun, and these days, to make an annual contribution to our engineer's pension fund!
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 381
Likes: 0
From: Qwerty
Ask me again in two years time as it is all irrelevant at the moment, my licence is worthless as my Class one medical has been suspended since last June due to Leukemia!
Tworelaxing (boring) years as I recover from a bone marrow transplant and then hopefully I will get my ticket back and be allowed to return to the Shiney jet to earn some money. I never thought I would say it but I actually miss getting up at ten to three in a morning to to go work!
Safe flying people and make the most of today as you never know what tomorrow might bring.
Two
Safe flying people and make the most of today as you never know what tomorrow might bring.
Last edited by Council Van; 19th December 2018 at 22:23.
Joined: Aug 2006
Posts: 236
Likes: 0
From: Looking for the signals square at LHR
That is a bugger, CV. I wish you well.
1 CPL/IR FI Water rating
2 4500+
3 Auster J/5 1958
4 Fun, then commercial followed by a stress-free retirement from an environment unrecognisable from that first experienced nearly 40 years before.
1 CPL/IR FI Water rating
2 4500+
3 Auster J/5 1958
4 Fun, then commercial followed by a stress-free retirement from an environment unrecognisable from that first experienced nearly 40 years before.
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Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 381
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From: Qwerty
Thanks, still alive, hopefully cured but you never ever quite know with cancer so hopefully now just a slow recovery.
No one ever said life would be easy.and I had some bad days and weeks.
No point moaning, that don't make things better.
NHS treatment and the staff. Brilliant, I am unable to describe how brilliant they have been.
ATPL
7000hrs
C152 August 1989 East Midlands Flying School
For the money and to pay tax to finance the NHS, I have cost them literally hundreds of thousands in care and medicine. Wife and family prevent me from fly for fun. However much you earn they seem to be able to spend it!
No one ever said life would be easy.and I had some bad days and weeks.
No point moaning, that don't make things better.
NHS treatment and the staff. Brilliant, I am unable to describe how brilliant they have been.
ATPL
7000hrs
C152 August 1989 East Midlands Flying School
For the money and to pay tax to finance the NHS, I have cost them literally hundreds of thousands in care and medicine. Wife and family prevent me from fly for fun. However much you earn they seem to be able to spend it!
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 5,655
Likes: 500
From: Canada
Council Van
Good luck in your return to work as a directional consultant in high speed aluminum tubing
As for money to fly I have a very strict budgeting plan. I spend most of my money on my Woman, good red wine, and my aeroplanes, the rest is wasted
Good luck in your return to work as a directional consultant in high speed aluminum tubing
As for money to fly I have a very strict budgeting plan. I spend most of my money on my Woman, good red wine, and my aeroplanes, the rest is wasted
Last edited by Big Pistons Forever; 20th December 2018 at 19:05. Reason: Edited Women to Woman
Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 2
Likes: 0
From: Southampton
1. What licence do you have, or are you working towards?
2. How many hours do you have in your log book?
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what?
4. Career or just for fun?
Quirky one coming up. I joined the forum when I was considering getting out of a soul destroying IT career into something better. I eventually decided against aviation as I frankly couldn't afford it. Then someone suggested something slightly different, and after initially scoffing at the idea I went for it. I now do for a living what every little boy used to dream of before flying machines were a twinkle in Orville and Wilbur's eyes... That doesn't stop me reading this forum and dreaming of branching out from my current two dimensions upwards...
1. ETDL
2. We don't have a log book, but I have approximately 1300 hours amassed, with an average takeoff weight of 100-300 tonnes and a fixed cruising altitude of 0ft. Anywhere between zero and 1000 SOB.
3. May 2017, in a 377 in Selhurst. I banged it into another 377, then pulled them apart. Then banged them together again. Then pulled them apart again. Then went back to the classroom.
4. Definitely career AND fun!
2. How many hours do you have in your log book?
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what?
4. Career or just for fun?
Quirky one coming up. I joined the forum when I was considering getting out of a soul destroying IT career into something better. I eventually decided against aviation as I frankly couldn't afford it. Then someone suggested something slightly different, and after initially scoffing at the idea I went for it. I now do for a living what every little boy used to dream of before flying machines were a twinkle in Orville and Wilbur's eyes... That doesn't stop me reading this forum and dreaming of branching out from my current two dimensions upwards...
1. ETDL
2. We don't have a log book, but I have approximately 1300 hours amassed, with an average takeoff weight of 100-300 tonnes and a fixed cruising altitude of 0ft. Anywhere between zero and 1000 SOB.
3. May 2017, in a 377 in Selhurst. I banged it into another 377, then pulled them apart. Then banged them together again. Then pulled them apart again. Then went back to the classroom.
4. Definitely career AND fun!
Joined: Aug 2009
Posts: 381
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From: Qwerty
1. What licence do you have, or are you working towards?
2. How many hours do you have in your log book?
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what?
4. Career or just for fun?
Quirky one coming up. I joined the forum when I was considering getting out of a soul destroying IT career into something better. I eventually decided against aviation as I frankly couldn't afford it. Then someone suggested something slightly different, and after initially scoffing at the idea I went for it. I now do for a living what every little boy used to dream of before flying machines were a twinkle in Orville and Wilbur's eyes... That doesn't stop me reading this forum and dreaming of branching out from my current two dimensions upwards...
1. ETDL
2. We don't have a log book, but I have approximately 1300 hours amassed, with an average takeoff weight of 100-300 tonnes and a fixed cruising altitude of 0ft. Anywhere between zero and 1000 SOB.
3. May 2017, in a 377 in Selhurst. I banged it into another 377, then pulled them apart. Then banged them together again. Then pulled them apart again. Then went back to the classroom.
4. Definitely career AND fun!
2. How many hours do you have in your log book?
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what?
4. Career or just for fun?
Quirky one coming up. I joined the forum when I was considering getting out of a soul destroying IT career into something better. I eventually decided against aviation as I frankly couldn't afford it. Then someone suggested something slightly different, and after initially scoffing at the idea I went for it. I now do for a living what every little boy used to dream of before flying machines were a twinkle in Orville and Wilbur's eyes... That doesn't stop me reading this forum and dreaming of branching out from my current two dimensions upwards...
1. ETDL
2. We don't have a log book, but I have approximately 1300 hours amassed, with an average takeoff weight of 100-300 tonnes and a fixed cruising altitude of 0ft. Anywhere between zero and 1000 SOB.
3. May 2017, in a 377 in Selhurst. I banged it into another 377, then pulled them apart. Then banged them together again. Then pulled them apart again. Then went back to the classroom.
4. Definitely career AND fun!
Joined: Dec 2018
Posts: 25
Likes: 0
From: Inglaterra
1. What licence do you have, or are you working towards? Frozen EASA ATPL
2. How many hours do you have in your log book? 170
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what? 2017 / PA28
4. Career or just for fun? Why not both!?
2. How many hours do you have in your log book? 170
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what? 2017 / PA28
4. Career or just for fun? Why not both!?
