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Forum: Private Flying
25th Aug 2011, 07:57
Replies: 18
Views: 2,235
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Pitts S2A

Hello

I have a midlands based Pitts S2A, message me if you require more details, or call 07990 586469.

Paul
Forum: Medical & Health
5th Oct 2010, 17:18
Replies: 1,000
Views: 174,886
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Not true....

.... SCPL posted

1) we do not issue any Class 1 Medical Certificates with a color deficiency limitation (VCL limitation is not possible for Class 1)

I don't know where that comes from, but it's...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
4th Jan 2009, 09:33
Replies: 28
Views: 9,881
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Tail dragger training

Hello Colin

I'm based in Herefrodshire and have a Pitts S2A as well as access to a Citabria for both aerobatics and tail dragger training.

PM me or email [email protected] if I can be...
Forum: Private Flying
4th Jan 2009, 09:27
Replies: 7
Views: 1,084
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Tail dragger training

Hi

I have a Pitts S2A based in Herefordshire, and also access to a Citabria.

PM (or email [email protected]) me for further info if interested.

PF
Forum: Private Flying
4th Jan 2009, 05:35
Replies: 25
Views: 6,239
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Aerobatics training

Hi AG

It took me around 30 hrs from scratch in Pitts S2A to learn basic/standard aeros, how to land the little sod, and then to both compete at Standard level and also become aeros FI.

This was...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
27th Aug 2008, 11:06
Replies: 28
Views: 9,881
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Tail dragger training

Colin

I can do tail wheel training in Herefordshire on a Citabria or a Pitts S2A.

Email me if interested: [email protected]

PF
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
26th Jun 2007, 20:10
Replies: 2
Views: 899
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Aeros instructor course

I need to find someone who can do me an aeros insructor course on a Pitts S2 before August.

Any ideas anybody?

PF

PS I can get hold of a plane...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
4th Mar 2007, 23:10
Replies: 3
Views: 706
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Definately possible

Did it myself 4 years ago at the late (though apparently not much lamented) I.F.T.A. in Florida.

Worked fine, did it in a month and a day - April - and only lost a couple of half days due weather....
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
1st Mar 2007, 22:50
Replies: 13
Views: 1,552
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Ermmmm

Why not just go and rent a 152 and try it....?

FWIW I reckon that you get a greater tendecy to drop a wing with flap, but then usually with a stude one would have power applied when stalling in...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
23rd Feb 2007, 22:47
Replies: 189
Views: 61,279
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Bet a quick low level circuit would've..... ...

Bet a quick low level circuit would've.....

PF
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
23rd Feb 2007, 02:44
Replies: 16
Views: 2,150
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Oh yes they can...

The examiner who did my FI gave me one of those Pooleys briefing folders.
Very useful it is too.

The same examiner spun the Warrior I did my test in, so they definately can. Whether they should...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
23rd Feb 2007, 02:30
Replies: 14
Views: 1,584
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Blimey

I have 4-6 regulars, teaching 2/3 days per week winter, 4-5 p/w summer.
I like to give them half a day per week each, plus there's the odd BFR/Ex3/checkout.

From my perspective (not owning a...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
23rd Feb 2007, 02:21
Replies: 9
Views: 1,457
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Well done

Well done mate, that's quite an achievement!

Do let us know how you get on in youir new 'career'!

(Perhaps vocation would be a more accurate term...)

PF
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
22nd Feb 2007, 11:39
Replies: 9
Views: 1,457
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Enjoy

Hi PG

In all the flights I've ever had with examiners I've always had the impression that they are there to pass me, which thankfully they have, in spite of some cock ups.

And I've always...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
22nd Feb 2007, 11:18
Replies: 189
Views: 61,279
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Touch and go...

Scenario: stude 'landed' with a thump after one of those holdoffs about 4ft above the ground which they seem to like to do occasionally. C152 u/c went to full twang then absorbed the abuse manfully....
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
16th Feb 2007, 07:56
Replies: 45
Views: 6,263
Posted By pilgrim flyer

I do

Hi Fox

I do it quite ofen in gliders actually in demonstrating recovery from winch launch failure.

And in a Pitts I pitch up 90 do a 'stall turn' but never stall the wing (unless I cock it up...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
15th Feb 2007, 22:00
Replies: 6
Views: 1,683
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Thanks

Thanks all for those replies.

I had indeed discussed it with the student, along with the other excercses carried out. I most certainly was only doing it for his benefit.

There was definately...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
15th Feb 2007, 21:48
Replies: 45
Views: 6,263
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Stick position

Most PPL's that I fly with are unaware that:

1 Stalling the wing is directly related to stick position

2 That releasing back pressure is generally more desireable, controlled and efficient than...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
15th Feb 2007, 21:31
Replies: 21
Views: 7,941
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Blag

Bose X

Any chance of me getin those slides too? I find the briefing even trickier than a hold demo in a 30 kt wind......

PF
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
8th Feb 2007, 22:49
Replies: 6
Views: 1,683
Posted By pilgrim flyer

SRA on pre skill test flight

I was recently charged with the task of taking another instructor’s student on a pre skills test flight. The instructor (A) and student particularly wanted me to go through stalling as the student...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
30th Sep 2006, 08:56
Replies: 1
Views: 653
Posted By pilgrim flyer

JAA - FAA instructor conversion

I am proposing to gain my FAA instructor ratings as there would seem to be a market for BFRs/ICCs in the UK.

In addition to my JAA CPL and unrestricted FI (applied instument restriction removed) I...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
10th Jun 2006, 22:21
Replies: 17
Views: 2,226
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Was in a similar boat. Get yourself over to...

Was in a similar boat.

Get yourself over to the US and get a waiver- got mine by a man in the tower at San Jose fashing the light to the ramp and naming the colour about six times.

Get a US...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
19th May 2006, 14:13
Replies: 26
Views: 3,152
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Did my FAA IR in the LA basin in 2000. Hardest...

Did my FAA IR in the LA basin in 2000. Hardest thing I've ever done in an aeroplane including learning how to teach ADF tracking/NDB approaches and CPL test in 90F under JAA.

It's real world- you...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
20th Apr 2006, 09:17
Replies: 7
Views: 1,130
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Often do turns banked up to 90 degrees in a...

Often do turns banked up to 90 degrees in a Pawnee. Taint got no vac pump. Saw a Pitts doing all sorts of things the otherday, didn't have a vac pump either...

Gods AoB indicator (the horizon)...
Forum: Private Flying
19th Apr 2006, 21:24
Replies: 41
Views: 5,890
Posted By pilgrim flyer

The aeros pilot thinks AoA all the time,...

The aeros pilot thinks AoA all the time, including during that base-to-final turn. It doesn't guarantee it'll never happen mainly because light aeroplanes don't have AoA indicators - they seem to be...
Forum: Private Flying
10th Apr 2006, 17:49
Replies: 14
Views: 5,190
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Land at Staverton on wheels and it's nearly as...

Land at Staverton on wheels and it's nearly as dear - see Staverton extortionate landing fee increase thread...

PF
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
10th Apr 2006, 17:44
Replies: 1
Views: 539
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Hello A I am. Have waiver on my US CPL which...

Hello A

I am. Have waiver on my US CPL which allows me to fly at night in this country, but not commercially and no public transport.

There is a colour blindness thread if you do a search with...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
10th Apr 2006, 09:53
Replies: 2
Views: 899
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Staverton landing fee- extortionate increase

Landed at Staverton on Saturday with a PPL student to find that the landing fee for training flights had increased from 10 quid to 17.

I wonder what justifies an increase of over 20 times the rate...
Forum: Private Flying
10th Apr 2006, 09:53
Replies: 15
Views: 1,878
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Staverton landing fee- extortionate increase

Landed at Staverton on Saturday with a PPL student to find that the landing fee for training flights had increased from 10 quid to 17.

I wonder what justifies an increase of over 20 times the rate...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
3rd Apr 2006, 18:03
Replies: 4
Views: 2,596
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Did the CPL theory route myself, for rather...

Did the CPL theory route myself, for rather similar reasons.

However I think that it's probably a good idea to do the ATPL's for the reasons you mention, plus there isn't that much more to do.
...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
3rd Apr 2006, 13:42
Replies: 91
Views: 10,677
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Coming from a gliding instructing background, I...

Coming from a gliding instructing background, I can only concur the stall/spin recognition/avoidance/recovery is at least inconstantly, if not badly, taught.

BGA instructors are rigorously coached...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
25th Mar 2006, 08:19
Replies: 11
Views: 1,073
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Had my renewal last Tuesday and the AME told me...

Had my renewal last Tuesday and the AME told me of the proposed new rules re annual renewal. However he also stated that this would not apply to instructors as they fly with people who can't fly.
...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
23rd Mar 2006, 10:28
Replies: 232
Views: 48,154
Posted By pilgrim flyer

I started studying for the JAA PPL at the tender...

I started studying for the JAA PPL at the tender age of 43, having left school 28 years previously with a grade 5 CSE (not a typo, they were an exam for us thickies who had failed the 11 plus).

In...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Mar 2006, 14:06
Replies: 16
Views: 1,364
Posted By pilgrim flyer

Pilottom As both a university lecturer and a...

Pilottom

As both a university lecturer and a flying instructor, I might take issue with your parents advice. In my 'day' job as a lecturer I deal with many people who are studying the wrong...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
12th Mar 2006, 13:33
Replies: 41
Views: 5,061
Posted By pilgrim flyer

FBM Far from it. However the tone of your...

FBM


Far from it. However the tone of your posts suggests that you're a fustrated wannabe FI. So what, I am wondering, is ther real reason that you are reluctant to get qualified and share your...
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