Chris Evans-Pilot?

[manfromuncle]

How very gracious of you to leave aside my spelling. I bow down to your superior language skills. My 'logic' is PPL(H) 'celebrities' who have had flying mishaps.

[gingernut]

He may not have a nom-de-plume just yet, but I think he listens in.

Comments on his show sometimes reflect threads on pprune.

[JimBall]

Uncle: My 'logic' is PPL(H) 'celebrities' who have had flying mishaps.

So they're different are they ? Different from all the non-celebrity incidents ? Or do you become a celebrity when you have an incident ?

That would be an interesting edition of "Heat" magazine.

[manfromuncle]

Yes they are different, IF something happens. If they have a mishap it will be all over the news and will be extremely damaging to the image of the helicopter industry and the public perception of the dangers of helicopters, much more so than an 'ordinary' member of the public having an incident.

I've lost count of the number of my passengers who have ask me why the Colin Mcrae crash happened?/what happend to Noel Edmunds?/what happened to that Chelsea helicopter?/helicopters crash a lot don't they? etc.

Due to the press coverage, celebrity helicopter incidents re-enforce the public's mistaken belief that helicopters just randomly fall out of the sky.

[scooter boy]

What a great addition to the helicopter world.
Welcome Chris Evans.
I'm pretty sure he is well fed up of sitting around in traffic jams.

Good on him, lets hope he survives the silly mistakes we all make while gaining experience and adds to the kudos of helicopter ownership.

BTW Nice choice of aircraft - mine is also a clipper II!

SB

[JimBall]

MFU: much more so than an 'ordinary' member of the public having an incident.

What short memories we have. Just last weekend my tv news was filled with headlines about a fatal heli crash. And no celebrities were involved.

The real facts are that any air crash - and especially helicopter ones that kill people - gets into the headlines. Don't ask me why. Maybe because it's a rarity. Maybe it's because the pictures are more interesting than car crashes.

"News". Define it..........

Welcome, Chris, to our little community. We really don't care about your fame. We just want you to enjoy the flying and hope you and Mrs E (who got her PPL(H) last November) don't fall out over who claims the P1.

And just remember - if the heli breaks Rule 5 - it was her!

[rotorboater]

Well done Chris, and even better that you can share the flying SWMBO, you fly to the pub, she can fly home!

[everynowandthen]

ppheli

It's not really a case of the register being a published document. It's more to do with the fact that I'm sure that the great majority of us don't give a flying (no pun intended) doo daa about where Mr Evans lives but there are, from what I gather, a few folk (judging by the lunacy of some of the things I've seen written) who look at this site who might want to send him their used M&S smalls or perhaps a nicely perfumed teddy. On that basis, I wouldn't have put the link up.

Maybe I'm being an @nal eejit & feel free to give me a cyber-slap but there you go, my humble opinion.

['Chuffer' Dandridge]

It's a well known fact that the UK Civil Aircraft Register is available to anyone who knows where to look (i.e the public domain). Quite why this is available and not the DVLA database I'm not sure, but it is.

So if you dont want your home address available to the general public or complaining NIMBYs, register your new toy to a company address or a PO BOX number..

CD

[21lefthand]

Gingernut ???

Are you any relation

[Ken Wells]

Well done Chris;


Welcome to the world of R44 fun.

[gingernut]

Sorry, no connection at all, just listen in on the way home.

My wings don't spin-(or a least they shouldn't)

[Lightning_Boy]

Nice one Christoph Lamby Pie........Love the show!!

[chevvron]

Does David Essex still fly? When he was learning at Fairoaks, I'm told he used to pay cash with a wad of £50 notes!

[Efirmovich]

£50 notes !......What is he supposed to pay in £1 coins ?

E.