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Glider Steve 14th Nov 2018 18:15

Just being nosy.
 
Questions

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?

Me?

1. NPPL (M)
2. 5 (ha ha)
3. August 2018 in a glider.
4. Just for fun!

Cheers
steve

ArthurG 14th Nov 2018 20:08

1. PPL, NPPL (SSEA), NPPL (M)
2. Just over 200 microlight and Group A (mostly Gp A)
3. July 2018 in an EV97 Eurostar microlight
4. To feed the addiction! (Fun)

gordonquinn 14th Nov 2018 20:14

Nice idea.

1. NPPL (SSEA), PPL(A) and just started Night Rating
2. Approx 90 - about 30 on Ikarus C42 and 60ish on PA28
3. 2011 on a Cessna 172
4. Just for fun!

piperboy84 14th Nov 2018 21:36

FAA CPL IR
Appx.1500
1994 in 152
To view from above my little part of god's own country without the burdensome company of other members of the human race.

ETOPS 15th Nov 2018 05:28

Oh go on then...

UK PPL, FAA PPL EASA ATPL
24,400
Sept 1972 Cessna 150 (it's still flying !!)
Fun then career now fun again

360BakTrak 15th Nov 2018 07:18

1. UK & FAA PPL, Night, IMC (Lapsed)
2. 950
3. First PPL Lesson in July 1994, Cessna 152. First ever lesson, Air Cadet Grob 103 at Upavon 1993
4. Fun!

DaveyJay85 15th Nov 2018 08:19

1. PPL(A)
2. 100
3. 2015 in a Grob 115
4. Strictly just for fun!

tmmorris 15th Nov 2018 08:25

EASA PPL(A), IR(R) and night, 600hrs approx
april 2001 in a Tomahawk
just for fun

mikehallam 15th Nov 2018 08:39

PPL A
1850
1969 C150 Bankstown.
Pleasure and ownership under PFA/LAA.

Floppy Link 15th Nov 2018 09:24

ATPL(A), CPL(H)/IR
10700
1981 in a PA28
Career (now part-time) AND fun...fly helicopter at work and LAA permit a/c and SSDR at play

Greeb 15th Nov 2018 10:05

PPL & glider
About 3000
1972 Blanik glider
fun

ChampChump 15th Nov 2018 10:22

Just to satisfy the nosy:

1. PPL (plus rusty various glider instructor stuff)
2. 3440 power
3. 1984 Blanik
4. Fun & meeting others like-minded.

Genghis the Engineer 15th Nov 2018 11:33

CPL/IR(R)/CRI, rated a bunch of stuff. Working to get the same ratings with FAA and a full IR - also just added aerobatics.
1770
Bulldog T1, 1990
Aviation Career and a commercial pilot's licence - but not a career pilot, and have never stopped flying for fun.

G

callum_62 15th Nov 2018 11:55

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?

1. NPPL (M)
2. 15 hours (2 solo)
3. 4th June 2017 - Eurostar EV97
4. FUN

gondukin 15th Nov 2018 12:08

1. What licence do you have, or are you working towards?
GPL + Silver C, NPPL(SLMG), LAPL(A) TMG, currently working towards upgrading to a full PPL(A)
2. How many hours do you have in your log book?
Around 90 hours on gliders (just under 60 as P1). 21 hours on motorgldiers (6 P1) and 6 hour PU/T on aeroplanes.
3. When was your first flying lesson and in what?
A trial at Shobon in a Cessna, some years ago (before I started gliding). First glider lesson was in a Twin Acro, also at Shobdon.
4. Career or just for fun?
Just for fun.


chevvron 15th Nov 2018 12:18

1. Gliding 'C' Certificate and Air Cadet G1 (both well lapsed.); PPL(A)
2. About 400.
3. Oct 1964, Slingsby T21b Sedburgh (gliders); Oct 1971 Cessna 150 (powered)
4. Fun but when NATS sent me on a PPL course they said it was because I might be required to fly as part of my air traffic control duties.

Dave Gittins 15th Nov 2018 12:57

1. Gliding A & C (don't think its lapsed though issue date was 1970 but definitely out of currency by about 15 yrs) UK PPL(A) & FAA PPL (OTBO)
2. about 400 last flew DA-40 on 11/11/18
3. Slingsby Cadet Mk III (1970) & Chippie about 1969
4. For the joy of flight in all its guises.

LysanderV8 15th Nov 2018 13:01

1. Was EASA PPL(A), but now LAPL
2. 700
3. PA28 Nov 2001
4. Pure enjoyment

Camargue 15th Nov 2018 13:02

1. PPL(A)
2. 550ish (but only about 400 since i got my ppl in 1991)
3. 1989 Bulldog T1
4. Just for fun

skylimey 15th Nov 2018 16:32

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?

1. FAA ATPL
2. 2500
3. May 1981 C152
4. Fun, Career, Fun

UV 15th Nov 2018 16:53

1.UK ATPL, US CPL Multi engined (Airplane and Seaplane). Silver C Gliding 1966. All medically lapsed!

2.11,500

3.October 1963 Ka2 glider!

4.Fun then Career

Big Pistons Forever 15th Nov 2018 21:56

ATPL SMELS, Glider Pilot License. Flight Instructor and Aerobatic Instructor Ratings for both aeroplanes and gliders

TT 7600

October 1977, Cessna 150

Fun, then commercial, then government, but always kept active in General Aviation

flyinkiwi 15th Nov 2018 22:58

  1. PPL(A)
  2. 293
  3. Trial flight was 3 June 2001, Cessna 172M ZK-DXO (first actual lesson (Effects of Controls) was 3 years later in a C152 Aerobat ZK-EJZ)
  4. For fun (I get paid far more money in my IT career than I would ever make in aviation)

4forward8back 16th Nov 2018 02:33

CPL(A) with the usual trimmings.
TT 2000+
June 1999. PA-28-161 VH-EWZ. YMPC.
Initially career flying. Now a desk based career, but the job requires the aviation qualifications. These days flying is just for fun and beer money.

B2N2 16th Nov 2018 03:32

1.ATP
2. 11,500 hrs TT
3. Somewhere in ‘91 in a Piper Traumahawk.
Switched schools and finished up in a Pa-18-150
which is a proper airplane.
4. Career and a little fun on the side

Romeo Tango 16th Nov 2018 08:57

PPL IR
4000
18/6/78 PA28
To go places

Pilot DAR 16th Nov 2018 11:15

CPL(A) "SMELS" (which in Transport Canada code stands for "Single & Multi Engined, Land and Sea"), & PPL(H)
7300 hours
1975, Cessna 150 (I liked it so much, I have never not flown them, and have owned one for 31 years now)
Just for fun now....

anxiao 16th Nov 2018 11:41

PPL then ATPL now PPL
19,900
Slingsby T31 glider, 1963
Fun then career now back to fun. It's been a great ride.

Three Lima Charlie 16th Nov 2018 13:26

1. ATP(A), ATP(H), CPL(G), AGI, A&P, I.A. (FAA Master Pilot, 57 years.)
2. 12,000+
3. 1959, Aeronca 7AC
4. Flew Army (Vietnam), civil helicopter, bush pilot, corporate, etc. Now just own and fly aerobatics for fun.

Tinstaafl 17th Nov 2018 06:41

1. Australia: ATPL(A), lapsed IR, lapsed Gr.1 ME instructor rating incl. aerobatic instructor
UK: ATPL(A) + IR, both lapsed
USA: ATP-MEL/SEL/SES, CFI/CFII/MEI, AGI
2. 8800
3. June 1983. C152
4. Career

Sam Rutherford 17th Nov 2018 07:35

  1. FAA & EASA CPL A & H
  2. +/- 3500h.
  3. 1985 Chipmunk, Yayy! Good to see some Blaniks in the list - my first solo in 1988 was in a Blanik!
  4. Fun then Career, now fun and career.

Above The Clouds 17th Nov 2018 09:07

1. UK EASA ATPL (A), FAA ATPL (A). SEP MEP IR Instructor.
2. Somewhere around 13000h
3. 1983 for first lesson in a Blanik, 1983 first solo in a Blanik.
4. Fun then career, now still career and fun with my own aircraft.

Sir Niall Dementia 20th Nov 2018 11:31

UK EASA ATPL (A) UK EASA ATPL (H)
17 500 (excluding 800 gliding)
1978 Tiger Moth
Fun, then career, now career and fun and still regret selling my 1974 C150, but also have a LAA single seat flutterby that reminds me of the start of it all.

SND

Ben706 29th Nov 2018 12:37

1. UK EASA PPL (A),
2. 207
3. 2007 Waterford Airport Tecnam P2002-JF
4. Fun but now working on making it a Career

Pilot DAR 29th Nov 2018 17:48

Welcome Ben,

As you can see already there is a breadth of experience here, all people contributing to our community....

foxmoth 30th Nov 2018 06:12


1. ATPL (plus instructor rating)
2. 21k+
3. 1972 - Kirby Cadet glider (though AEF in dH Chipmunk prior to this)
4. Career - but always flown for fun as well.

Collieflyer One 6th Dec 2018 13:58

1)CPL/IR, SEP, MEP, FI(A),Examiner
2)16,700
3)1993 C152
4)Career+fun

JustOneMoreQuestion. 6th Dec 2018 14:47

1) UK PPL (EASA)
2) 58
3) 2009 (I think) in an IS28 Glider
4) Fun, with an aim to move into a career

Deltasierra010 6th Dec 2018 18:30

1 Gliding 2 diamonds
2 1500 hrs
3 1986 Blanik glider
4 Pure enjoyment, tried to retire twice failed both times

patowalker 7th Dec 2018 07:22

1. French ULM, PPL(A)M, NPPL (SSEA), FAA PPL, LAPL
2. 1100
3. 1985, Quicksilver MX II
4. Just fo fun.


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