first land away
 

my last lesson i flew into leicester airfield made a lovely change from doing circuits!!mind you the landing fees were a bit steep! 12.00!!plus a coffee for my instructor lol.great experience thou and thoroughly enjoyable lesson,although coming back to derby i was a few miles off track!
hopefully going up to wickenby next lesson.:ok:

12.00!!! :eek:

thats actually quite alright!!! - wait till you get your licence and start going some places where the landing fee is 30-40 quid and on top of that a handling charge!

but on the note of your first land-away, congrats, really good feeling! I remember mine clearly as if it was yesterday. Enjoy your next trip too.

well done

yes im quite sure the fees will be going up alright! id like to fly into east mids as ive never flown into a commercial airport before so that should be a good experience just hope i dont cock the RT up!! ill have to bring my credit card as it doesnt even tell you how much the fees are there in the VFR guide!!

The more I read there, the stranger a country the UK seems to me. Just when I thought it a shame it is looking more and more like the continent, measuring in litres and kilometres and all that, reading these pages has reassured me there's enough queerness left in merry old England... };-)
For one thing the landing fees seem very high compared to this country: I know several grass strips round here (like EBKH and EBHN) that happily accept 5 euro's, and I'm not sure one would ever hear about it after "forgetting". Of course "public airports" are another matter here too, with mandatory handling and what not.

PS landing fees are mentioned in detail in my old UK VFR-guide (AFE, 2003) so I wonder what abomination you got stuffed with. But do not count on credit card acceptance, not even in decent countries like Belgium.

aerofoil1,

dont worry about going into East Mids.

Yeah it may be a big "commercial airport" as you say. I did my PPL at a bigger airport which was in Class D airspace and in hindsight think it worked a lot for confidence going forward into a commercial flying career.

Don't be phased by it, go and experience it and enjoy the experience. Coming away from it back to your home field you'll probably have a bit of self satisfaction mixing it with the bigger aeroplanes.

If your in during the night I'll buy you a coffee, I'll most likely be in with the freighter ;)

I think he should have bought you a coffee!

thanks vulcan ill bear that in mind when ive hopelfully passed the PPL and move on to the night rating.
my instructor had no change on him for the coffee machine!!but hey whos complaining !

Please feed the poor instructor!
 

Instructors never have any change for coffee, or anything else for that matter (it used to be in the pre-JAR AOPA AFI syllabus) ;), ideally you should have bought some kind of meal, or at least a snack as well. Did you not know FI's are all paupers, putting their lives on the line to prevent you from killing yourself every flight :rolleyes:

really i had no idea! i think im past the stage of any serious mishaps (although i cant think of any bad moments maybe a couple of bounces when i was starting circuits1)

ROTFL!

But mind you, postings to the effect of "didn't you know" have been classified as "counter-productive" before.

My first land away was at Lydd and I'm sure it cost a little more than £12!

Since gaining my PPL I've been on the lookout for free landing vouchers in various magazines. Occasionally there are some for local aerodromes and so it would allow me to save a little money - as a student that money saved could be put to better things: a weekly food shop, text books, beer etc etc...

aerofoil1

That's nice to hear, that you think you're past the point of making a serious mishap :ugh: That you've not really had any bad moments during your training is testament to what an excellent instructor you have, which is even more reason to try and keep him/her happy, by feeding & watering at every opportunity. You could even let them have any "spare change" you might have at the end of each lesson:ok:

Jan

Thanks for the tip, I'll try and watch my prose keep it productive in the future. Don't want to get the wrong side of the "regular posters police" ;)

£10 landing fees are quite common; the occassional challenge might be finding an airfield which charges £10 but you don't get a prop strike ;)

The only times I've come close to a "serious mishap" was after I'd finished my PPL. :E

yes my instructor is top class always try to fly with him when he isnt booked up or the weather is no good.the latter happens a lot these days.hoping to get my PPL finished by christmas then ill buy him a nice big juicy turkey!

Anti-propstrike designs
 

IO

What you need is one of them funny aeroplanes, with the third wheel at the back end. Harder to propstrike one of those, apart from taxiing into something you cant see for the nose of course. :E

aerofoil1

This time of year can be a bit tricky getting a good wx window for your land-away X/C, but don't worry, you will get some nice days.

I'm sure he'll appreciate a turkey, winter's always an especially hard time for us FIs. Unless of course he's a retired BA captain, or doing it part-time when not long-hauling to Auckland or somewhere? Anyway, that'll be my last whinge about instructor's finances, I'll save them for a different forum.

Good luck with your flying, hope you get finished for Xmas, enjoy the land-aways, always my favourite flights.