Please can I teach you to hover?
Joined: Feb 2000
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From: England
And Whirly very kindly gave me a lift once. Call in them favours I say.
Good luck with the instructing Whirly - I think you've probably seen enough to know whats good and whats bad; I am sure you'll be a great instructor.
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ps you know no terror as is when walking away from your first sent solo's aircraft :-)
Good luck with the instructing Whirly - I think you've probably seen enough to know whats good and whats bad; I am sure you'll be a great instructor.
WWW
ps you know no terror as is when walking away from your first sent solo's aircraft :-)
Why do it if it's not fun?
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From: Bournemouth
I can only speak as a happy PPRuNe user, not as a moderator... but I'm quite happy for Whirly to advertise here.
I object (and I think Danny and the mods do too) to people using PPRuNe to advertise their own cause, without putting anything back into it. This is an environment where we all have to give as much as we take - because if we don't give to PPRuNe, then who does?
Whirly has given more to this forum, and probably to Rotorheads too, than the vast majority of posters. She is more than entitled, IMVHO, to benefit personally from these forums after all she has put into them.
Not that my opinion is relevant, but I thought I'd add it in response to SC's question.
FFF
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I object (and I think Danny and the mods do too) to people using PPRuNe to advertise their own cause, without putting anything back into it. This is an environment where we all have to give as much as we take - because if we don't give to PPRuNe, then who does?
Whirly has given more to this forum, and probably to Rotorheads too, than the vast majority of posters. She is more than entitled, IMVHO, to benefit personally from these forums after all she has put into them.
Not that my opinion is relevant, but I thought I'd add it in response to SC's question.
FFF
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Joined: Jan 1997
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From: UK
I wrote to Whirly and said she could have a freeby. Entirely my suggestion and solely because of what she has freely given in time and effort over the years. Try a search on her posts and see what I mean.
She didn't ask. She simply wouldn't anyway. That's Whirly.
Regards
Rob Lloyd
She didn't ask. She simply wouldn't anyway. That's Whirly.
Regards
Rob Lloyd
"Trust Me"
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From: Egham, UK
Hi Whirly
Just to say I attempted to 'fly' an R22 once -I have NEVER felt so out of control of a piece of machinery in my life!!
"Never trust a machine whose wings fly faster than the fuselage."
However, had an oppurtunity to fly a single Squirrel this year, that was EXCELLENT!!
Have fun.
DOC
Just to say I attempted to 'fly' an R22 once -I have NEVER felt so out of control of a piece of machinery in my life!!
"Never trust a machine whose wings fly faster than the fuselage."
However, had an oppurtunity to fly a single Squirrel this year, that was EXCELLENT!!
Have fun.
DOC
Ich bin ein Prooner.
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From: Home of the Full Monty.
Hello Whirly.
I was given an hour's trial fright in an R.22 by my family last year, and loved every second of it. Unfortunately, I am nowhere even near being able to go rotary.
But good luck with your career, and enjoy it. Best wishes. N.Z.
The girl done good !!!
I was given an hour's trial fright in an R.22 by my family last year, and loved every second of it. Unfortunately, I am nowhere even near being able to go rotary.
But good luck with your career, and enjoy it. Best wishes. N.Z.
The girl done good !!!
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From: U.K.
Hiya Whirly,
Unless it's changed in the last few months, a PPL(A) needs both Heli technical and loading for the PPL(H), BUT for the CPL you only need principles of flight if you have a CPL(A).(Thogh this may now be out of date if proper bridging exams have come out.) Doesn't make alot of sense I know!!
Good luck.
Unless it's changed in the last few months, a PPL(A) needs both Heli technical and loading for the PPL(H), BUT for the CPL you only need principles of flight if you have a CPL(A).(Thogh this may now be out of date if proper bridging exams have come out.) Doesn't make alot of sense I know!!
Good luck.
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The Original Whirly
Joined: Feb 1999
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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
Er...how about...forever? 
Nah, I'm joking, BRL. I guess everyone knows now, and you can unstick it before they all get thoroughly bored with me. Many thanks.
Nah, I'm joking, BRL. I guess everyone knows now, and you can unstick it before they all get thoroughly bored with me. Many thanks.
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From: Norfolk
Whirly
Perhaps you could come to Norfolk and teach me how to fly my newly acquired Brantly B2B. Not quite as twitchy as a Robbo but vertainly not as stable as the Bell 47 I really wanted. Very few people in the UK able to do type rating so I am unable to fly it on the UK licence but for some reason the Americans are about to tell me that I can fly it without killing myself. Hope to be able to prevent myself from crashing carrying UK paper work later in the year when a local examiner gets up to speed. In the meantime machine is available for some assistance in improving my skill and giving you something different to play with (providing we get the right pieces of paper in place!). I have a slight feeling that currently we can't fly together as neither of us have UK type rating but by the end of August I should have sorted the US licence.
Perhaps you could come to Norfolk and teach me how to fly my newly acquired Brantly B2B. Not quite as twitchy as a Robbo but vertainly not as stable as the Bell 47 I really wanted. Very few people in the UK able to do type rating so I am unable to fly it on the UK licence but for some reason the Americans are about to tell me that I can fly it without killing myself. Hope to be able to prevent myself from crashing carrying UK paper work later in the year when a local examiner gets up to speed. In the meantime machine is available for some assistance in improving my skill and giving you something different to play with (providing we get the right pieces of paper in place!). I have a slight feeling that currently we can't fly together as neither of us have UK type rating but by the end of August I should have sorted the US licence.
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The Original Whirly
Joined: Feb 1999
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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
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I would just LOVE to fly a Brantly! I got really interested in them a couple of years ago when I saw one at Heli-Expo, then talked to someone who owned one. If I could afford it, I'd consider buying one myself. I've never flown one, so I don't know who'd be teaching whom
but when you get the type rating sorted out, if the offer still stands, please pm or call me...I think my phone number is somewhere on this thread.
I would just LOVE to fly a Brantly! I got really interested in them a couple of years ago when I saw one at Heli-Expo, then talked to someone who owned one. If I could afford it, I'd consider buying one myself. I've never flown one, so I don't know who'd be teaching whom
but when you get the type rating sorted out, if the offer still stands, please pm or call me...I think my phone number is somewhere on this thread.
