Can I recommend Manhattan on a crystal clear Autumn day.

Out of White Planes, down the Hudson, 1000' along the west side of Manhattan, orbit Liberty Island and the Lady, back up the East River, left over central park (yup, still at 1000'), back up the Hudson to White Planes again.

Topped Sydney I reckon.

-bcfc

EDIT - tb10er & Slim_slag beat me to it :O

Mont Blanc is beautiful at this time of year. Just flew it this afternoon with a friend.

Hi all
Love the thread.....to do before I die,eh?....first,shag somebody nice in the cabin, then return to the front office and finish the flight...........have a dogfight, good and sweaty, with lots of hammering guns, expletives and beer and bull!!!! in the bar afterwards...........fly my first commercial flight...........pull off a perfect three-pointer in a Spitfire.......fly one of the new-built Focke-Wulf 190s........fly an Me109 and land it in one piece.......do lots of aeros in something like a Tiger or Stampe or T-6(none of yer noisy identikit Extras/Laser/Stampe !!!!e).......fly in one of the classic combat jets, like an F-4 or a Hunter or a MiG.......do a tour on the aid/relief flight circuit in Africa..........fly at dawn and dusk in an open-cockpit on the longest day of the year.....Ah,Christ,I don't care.I'm going to keep flying until they screw the lid onto the urn.
Cheers and happy Christmas to all who fly!!
regards
TDD

Fair play to you mate, my feelings exactly! Especially the Me-109 (Bf-109 for the pedants) and FW190s... pure joy. Although you never know, since I'm bound to end up in hell, maybe I'll get to fly Boeings after kicking the bucket. :{ :E

And a very happy Christmas to you all. :ok:

Fly with Andy Slattery.........For me the experience could never be bettered!

Some people make it look easy, some people push it to the limit, some people try to be flash beyond their limits.

Then you get blokes like Andy who are just plain gifted.

If you don't know him then its your loss.
If you do then you will know where I am coming from!

Coop & I flown with Slatts too Bear:O

Sydney Harbour via Victor 1 is pretty good, I've done it 3 times in the last 6 months, but the weekend before last was special, filed a flight plan (via web) and held at long-reef for 10 mins, however when I finished harbour orbits , SYD 123.0 cleared us WEST of the bridge along the paramatta river and onto prospect, rarely get that one !!!

Willietown beach/Nelson Bay at 500 feet is also nice, saw a few kids playing and waving once , so (not to be rude) I turned around , and waggled my wings to them, I could see the grins and smiles for miles from where I sat! (during my 60TT and 20Hr X-c in a tailwheel :uhoh: what was I thinking!!


Birdsville is always an argument about who flys there, and not back!! but it must be done! (bottle to throttle rule)
Great Ocean road.

Fraiser Island!

Shuttle landing Facility at Cape Canaveral, if you ask nicely, they'll let you down to 500 along the runway (some years ago, probably not poss now ?)


To Do!

Arran Islands off the west coast of Eire, I recall that you often have to deal with Shannon ATC , but once again a flight plan works wonders. (you get cliffs of Moher en route)

Blasket Islands off west coast of Kerry - Land on charlies private strip :)

I'd love to do Manhatten, is that stil possible after 911 ?

Lord Howe Island!

Whitsundays hoppins (easy and relaxed.I think)

New years lotto should see me snugly fitted into a flugwerk 190 in a few months!


cheers

7gcbc

I had a mate who lived in Alaska and had a cute little supercub on a strip up there. He had to come down to the "lower 48" on business a lot which is where I met him, he was always going on about how Alaska was the final frontier, how I should go up there, and about how he missed his cub.

Then he had floats put on his cub, and since that day I've never seen him again. He didn't care about making money in the "lower-48", he just couldn't leave his float-plane for weeks at a time, he was having too much fun.

So although I've been to Alaska I've never flown there, sounds like it's well worth doing. I also think there's a well established VFR route for getting there from the US via Canada that's supposed to be a great trip.

1. R405 Sydney Harbour

2. Victor 1 (Sydney Beaches North thru Jibbon Point

3. Central Washington Helilanes (may be closed now)

4. Central New York self announce area

5. Black Bottle Round in W Scotland on Midsummers day

h-r

Stillin1 said - "With anyone on their first flight - just to see the look in thier eyes when they finally understand why you must do this."

Done that. :) Took my seven year old son on one of the Classic Wings Rapides at Duxford this summer, and just sat watching his face as we took off. He was looking out of the window at the world rushing by, when all of a sudden, the ground fell away... he turned to me, all wide eyed and grinning, pointed out of the window, and roared with laughter. He understands. :ok:

Don't know if I've got 50, but here are a few, some I've done, some still to do:

Completely agree with GtE on making your first filght in a single seat biplane. That's more a rite of passage than a checkout and, to be done properly, has to be done in a Pitts! (Thanks to Rob Millinship for all the help and coaching!)

Fly to NYC on Concorde. On the flightdeck. Both ways.

Look up to infinity above you from the open cockpit of a Stearman, then up at the ground above you from the top of a loop (Thanks, Ian!)

See the White Cliffs of Dover as returning airmen saw them during the war, and finally understand what they were talking about.

Spend an hour getting to know the T-6 Texan

Land on a beach

Partake in a 7 ship Pitts formation to a chateau on the Somme

Spend hours in something old, slow, and fabric covered between surface and 800 feet (Taylorcraft and Cubs are especially good for this)

30 miles of Grand Canyon in a Pitts

Land's End to John O'Groats

Air-to-air and air-to-mud in an F-15E

Ride along on a practice mission in a B-52 including low level bombrun and air-to-air with Phantoms (not that I actually saw a damn thing, what with being strapped to the floor in the "10th man harness")

Refuel B-52s from the boomer's position in a KC-135

Display a Mustang or Corsair in an airshow at Duxford

Perform a formation display with my mate at any airshow or village fete (next season?)

Take my niece and nephew for their first airplane rides and hope for the kind of reaction Beauman got from his son

and the best one of all, take a flight to nowhere in a Piper Cub on a sunny June evening after work, wearing shorts and a t-shirt, doors open, trimmed for hands off, watching the world go by for an hour or so, then land just as the sun sets on the end of runway 28...


Pitts2112