I took a Cessna 172 from Sywell to Old Buckenham recently - first visit there. A really nice airfield, despite me being caught out by the narrow runway on the first approach, then being caught out by the C172's ability to float like a balloon and the sloping runway on the second approach...!

Sadly I forgot to turn the camera on for the return leg.

Definitely an airfield worth visiting, although due to a delayed departure the cafe had shut by the time I got there.

I'm no Scorsese but here is my humble contribution from my first solo yesterday!

Hope you enjoy :)

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I've had my licence for over 5 years, but recently I decided to actually fly into the airfield where I caught the bug - Andrewsfield in Essex - some 15 years ago.

From Sywell, the easiest route is direct through Stansted's CTR, so I thought i'd give this a go! Essex radar were very helpful and managed to slot me in crossing the landing threshold just behind a Ryanair. No such luck on the return flight, 20mins after the initial request and 10mins orbiting outside airspace and I had to call it quits and take my planned diversion route.

A very pleasant airfield to visit, with a great restaurant. I'd thoroughly recommend a visit before it gets turned into houses!

Below are a couple of videos of my outbound and return flights between Sywell and Andrewsfield, with the GPS trace of each flight overlaid from Skydemon.

Outbound:


Return:

For those, who love runway lighting p0rn
 

Best part starts at the 5th minute!

Click this TEXT for the landing scene


Complete video:

The poetry of flight
 

I just created this short video by selecting some scenes from my flight. The soundtrack as written ans played by my nephew.
Hope you like it

Flying over the San Francisco Bay
 

Multi crew flight in a Tecnam P92 from LKKV (Karlovy Vary)
 

A recent 'Mountain flying' experience around the Scottish Highlands, through Loch Ness and the Cairngorms. Flown 'under instruction' from Highland Aviation at Inverness Airport.

The video just doesn't do the scenery justice!

Adriatic Sea / Croatia / Mali Losinj (LDLO)
 

Reaching the shoreline: 07:17
Landing at Mali Losinj airport: 15:00




Takeoff clearance at Mali Lošinj: 03:25
Landing at Sármellék, LHSM: 20:58
Landing at Tököl, LHTL: 25:29

Flying in the aftermath of Storm Erik
 

From yesterday, an IFR flight in a PA32 from Glasgow down to Cambridge


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXk...ature=youtu.be

Top 10 Destinations since the previous annual
 

It's annual time for N101DW, so I've put together this short video counting down our top 10 most frequently visited destinations since the previous annual.

I wonder how many of your favourites are on the list...

My latest video offering. This time, a VFR flight into Humberside airport last weekend. Enjoy!

Try these two for size.

Firstly, What would you do if ATC asked you to do this...


Secondly, how good is your aviation French? Put yours to this test with this tricky example...

Youtube fixed their resolution error, so I repost the link to our flight in Slovenia (Maribor, Slovenske Konjice). ATC R/T and subtitles in English.

And as the days are shorter and nights are longer...
 

...the time has come to practice night flying again..

A wizz around Snowdon

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How's that landing ?
 

I just managed to mount a camera for fun and for self-diagnosis! No fancy editing or music, just me doing a runway inspection and then landing on a rough, narrow airstrip on a hot hazy day.



Whadya reckon?

Hello everyone! We are pilots from Russia.
We fly general aviation aircraft all over the world and shoot video.
We began to voice our films in English for universal accessibility!
We live a busy aviation life, develope our own airfield.
Flying is a full time job and a hobby for us.
Hope you enjoy ;)

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Today, I had one of the most interesting flights in my flying career. I was flying out of Black Diamond/Cu Nim (CEH2) in Alberta.

I took up the father of two of our youngest students for his first glider flight. It wasn't planned and the conditions didn't look promising, but our high-performance two-seater, the DG1000S, was available so we launched.

We released at 2000' above ground and flew around for a while and were at 1000', preparing to enter the circuit, when we entered a strong thermal which allowed us to gain 3000'. This height (7700' ASL) allowed me to demonstrate the high-speed performance of the DG1000S and before descending, we moved upwind to get away from a rain shower that was passing over the field. At was at this point, we saw the most remarkable double-rainbow, below us!

Rainbow picture and video by Bart, my passenger.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....17351710cf.jpg

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ff34f03f14.jpg

It's certainly not me in the LHS, but I had to find a place to post this:

Twitter

How far above Vat was he when he was trying to forrce the aircarft down onto the track?
Brown underwear all round!

Sports airfield, LJBL Bled, Slovenia. Good destination in the wintertime as well (paved runway, taxiway).

A nice, well-produced video about a lovely grass field just east of Calgary. I’ve never been there, but it feels as if I know it, because it’s about 20 miles from my gliding club and we share the same traffic frequency. :)

Took my son and I 9 years to build this.

Not sure if anybody reads these but I'll post one more.

Tough crowd here. I'm at 32.7 hours out of the required 40 for my phase 1 flight test.

IFMU, believe me, your posts are seen and appreciated.

There's about 110 posts in this thread, and there have been 116,000 views, so more than 1000 views per post, so your contributions are not falling into a black hole by any means.

SD

Just over a year ago, I had my third dual trip with an instructor friend in his Christen Eagle II. After doing some aerobatics and inverted flying, I did a three-turn spin and then I asked my instructor to do one while I filmed it. Great fun.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....161b58c1b.jpeg


During the debrief, I noticed the G meter recording needles showing +7 and -3.

I said “I didn’t think we pulled that much!”

My instructor said “Adrenaline will do that to you!”

Nice. I did my aerobatics in an S2A and like the Eagle it both spins well and exits the spin in a heartbeat. I don't recall that many Gs in a spin. My chute comes next month and I can start doing aerobatics in the Waiex. Positive G fun stuff, it's not the same class as the Eagle or Pitts.

Thank you Saab Dastard for your comment.

IFMU,

It was the maneuvers before the spins that led to the G readings. :E

The spins are relaxed by comparison although the rotation rate is quite fast compared to the gliders I usually spin. :)

That makes more sense! Wow, I've never pulled more than 6. The guys flying Sonex aerobatics are pulling 3-4 typically. It's rated +6/-3 at aerobatic weight.

I think those readings were brief instantaneous G forces. I wasn’t looking at the meter during my aeros, but my seat-of-the-pants G meter registered 5-6. 😄

I see the limits are +9 and -6 - well beyond my tolerance at my advanced age!

Here is my son's first flight in the airplane he spent 600+ hours building with me. Poor lighting, and the only audio is engine noise, but that smile on first takeoff makes it all worth it.

Brilliant!

It must be an awesome feeling to go flying in an aircraft you have built yourself.

Here is another, G-HELL at North Coates Airfield.
It seems to be based there:
https://northcoatesflyingclub.com/pi...ased-aircraft/

From the Sonex builder database, it seems there are 7 Sonex flying in England and as many under construction.
https://www.sonexaircraft.com/search...Lng=-1.1743197

It is a great little aircraft - cheap to build and operate. Fun to fly. The Y-tail Waiex flies the same as the heathen conventional tail Sonex, but the Waiex is about 20% cooler.

First time flying today in a long time. We put in a new oil pump with a pressure relief cover and eliminated the filter. The flaps were re-rigged and are good - the airplane trims up pretty stable hands off. Maybe a very slight right turn. Before when I had it hands off there was a big gap between the flap and the wing trailing edge and that has been fixed. We left our phase 1 flight test area for the first time and gave Adam his first landings away from home base. This is DeKalb, IL where Adam goes to college at NIU.