Circuit Basher

I thought that was the case also but I'm sure I've heard transmissions before where a student is making a call and gets stuck and occaisonally you can hear a prompt from the instructor picked up by the student's mic! That's what worried me. Can that happen easily or does the person sitting next to you really have to shout to be heard?

Ahhh Mike...

Maybe when she refers to 'extreme sports' she knows what you have in mind...

:E

JP

Hello stranger!! how's your share working out? Seem to be spending most of my time in Mia's CP these days!

as for extreme sports - I thought that watersports thing was out secret!!! :O

Oh dear! The Boss looks after me well, which is A Good Thing. I've had a fair quota of scary moments but survived them all.

A few years ago, we had a very large, rugby-playing Curate, who explained he'd never flown in anything, and my task was to rectify this in the near future. A day was duly chosen, and he was thoroughly briefed on what it would be like and what to do/not to do.

On the chosen day, we duly installed ourselves in the trusty G-UTSY, I briefed him again (just in case) and we taxied out. "You OK?" "Yes, fine." "OK, let's fly! Remember to keep your hands and feet well clear of the controls at all times!"

30 seconds later, airborne, and gear safely up, I glance right. He's sitting there, whitish green and covered in perspiration, with his arms locked on the coaming. This is a seriously large gentleman, and those arms locked on the yoke would have led to a rapid end for us both.

"Are you OK?" No reply.

Keef calls Tower for an uninterrupted and immediate return and landing - all gentle stuff, no tight turns, and we land safely. I was petrified that he would do something else, but he stayed locked to the coaming all the way down.

Phew!

He asked to have another go a few weeks later, but no way am I ever going to try that!

My two daughters, on the other hand, thought it "cool" when they were teenagers, and "boring" thereafter. They do still occasionally fly with me, but only if we're going somewhere they want to go.

Basic rule of survival is that first-time passengers, unless known to be cool calm and collected, go in the back.