Tony, you say:-

"I also know a young pilot who got got a flat wheel on a Scotish island....called a maintenance outfit and the bill was £1,545 inc VAT."

hmmm, sounds familiar. What colour was this person's headset?


On the more serious side, I do wish that I had a more practical knowledge of the machinery, but I am very unhandy with spanners and such, as my vain attempts to tinker with old cars have convinced me. I found the technical exam for the PPL moderately interesting.

BoeingMEL
 

Thanks for taking the bait mate .......... I was sure I would catch someone !.

SMARTHAWKE.

Are there aircraft made out of some thing other than wood ?.

LDG_GEAR

I could do but if im going to hit the books it would be my B2 to B1 conversion first.

Iam hoping my B2 Avio license will be valid for all weights when EASA comes in, thats the rumours at present.

I0540,

Such a shame you have a tarred view of LAME's hope not all GA pilots think like that, allthough i have much to learn maybe, im quite a young inexperienced LAME as yet!

Stu.

Don't worry Stu, IO540's role on this forum is to be Eeyore.

(My role is to be Mr Toad. Poop, pooooop!)

:D

Keep it up mr toad!!

FGN,

No he was wearing Green Headsets.

He did take some advice from a Lawyer and he sent them £700 in settlement of the invoice. the company banked the cheque and as far as I know did not pursue him for the balance. (to date that is)

Still a tube cost about £25 and I could normally have the job done in well under an hour, the organisation had a 30 minute flight in a PA28 there and back so I suppose they were covered with £700.

But if you are prepared, the cost would be well less than £100 as long as there was no other damage.

Tony