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Search: Posts Made By: 12Watt Tim
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Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.
14th Jan 2010, 21:59
Replies: 28
Views: 8,093
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Flexjet There are many countries with higher...

Flexjet

There are many countries with higher murder rates than Iraq. Would a crew flying to Venezuela be cowboys?
Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.
12th Jan 2010, 22:35
Replies: 19
Views: 3,363
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Max Friendly piece of advice. If you are...

Max

Friendly piece of advice. If you are asking these questions on a public forum then you are going to be haemorrhaging money while you learn this business. It is a very tricky sector, and you...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
12th Jan 2010, 00:52
Replies: 5
Views: 1,220
Posted By 12Watt Tim

You are very unlikely to get the agreement of the...

You are very unlikely to get the agreement of the UK and Greek authorities that would be needed.
Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.
23rd Dec 2009, 22:07
Replies: 41
Views: 15,719
Posted By 12Watt Tim

That sounds satisfactory, but I can't help...

That sounds satisfactory, but I can't help thinking that a less confrontational response in the beginning might have meant a shorter thread.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
23rd Dec 2009, 21:30
Replies: 21
Views: 2,394
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Jambone Oh, dear. I think you are going to...

Jambone

Oh, dear. I think you are going to be disappointed. These aviation degrees are marketing b_s_.So does a job in the aviation business. One of them costs money, the other pays you money. One...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
22nd Dec 2009, 23:17
Replies: 92
Views: 26,682
Posted By 12Watt Tim

alikikev If you don't want to go in the...

alikikev

If you don't want to go in the airlines do not do an integrated course. Modular is much preferred in most of the GA world, and it is cheaper. Some GA companies won't even look at...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
22nd Dec 2009, 19:36
Replies: 21
Views: 2,394
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Jambone Why? Nothing to do with rushed...

Jambone

Why?

Nothing to do with rushed course. If anything padded. The objection is in that one word. I cannot see any reason for doing this.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
22nd Dec 2009, 08:57
Replies: 21
Views: 2,394
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Well put together? From what? Like many modern...

Well put together? From what? Like many modern 'degrees' it is not a degree at all, just an extended diploma which teaches nothing that can't be learnt by working in the field to which it relates....
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
21st Dec 2009, 23:01
Replies: 21
Views: 2,394
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Listen to Student88 and lpokijuhyt. they speak...

Listen to Student88 and lpokijuhyt. they speak wisely. A degree is not going to help significantly, and a trivial degree like aviation studies/management least of all.

Are your parents trying to...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
20th Dec 2009, 23:21
Replies: 32
Views: 5,759
Posted By 12Watt Tim

MartinChThink carefully about this. The UK CAA...

MartinChThink carefully about this. The UK CAA has done a lot of work to make the exams better. A lot of terrible questions have been effectively removed from the question bank pending rewrite (which...
Forum: Private Flying
19th Dec 2009, 22:33
Replies: 72
Views: 12,103
Posted By 12Watt Tim

If you were flying Islanders I suspect you were...

If you were flying Islanders I suspect you were flying rather lower than I was. I would only go lower to clear ice I was suffering higher up, but at FL100 I was rarely in cloud.
Forum: Private Flying
19th Dec 2009, 22:11
Replies: 72
Views: 12,103
Posted By 12Watt Tim

IO540 Single-crew, various piston twins....

IO540

Single-crew, various piston twins. Didn't answer about the speed, but generally between 160 and 180 kts TAS.

Try it in an aircraft cleared for known icing. Most of the time ice will clear...
Forum: Private Flying
19th Dec 2009, 21:21
Replies: 72
Views: 12,103
Posted By 12Watt Tim

EnglishAl You should see the kit on one of...

EnglishAl

You should see the kit on one of the aircraft I flew commercially in the airways. Best I had was a KNS80. Few self-respecting owners of an airways-equipped aircraft would get airborne...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
19th Dec 2009, 11:54
Replies: 72
Views: 8,833
Posted By 12Watt Tim

DemomonkeyIndeed, but that does not mean the...

DemomonkeyIndeed, but that does not mean the school has no influence. The average varies by school, and not necessarily in being better or worse. It varies in balance between a whole set of qualities...
Forum: Private Flying
18th Dec 2009, 22:02
Replies: 72
Views: 12,103
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Maybe I was just lucky! Flying at FL90 or...

Maybe I was just lucky!

Flying at FL90 or FL100 I spent more than 80% of my time in clear air. Most of the rest I was not suffering icing, maybe 5% of the time. This was commercial charter in an...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
18th Dec 2009, 21:31
Replies: 21
Views: 2,394
Posted By 12Watt Tim

A few airlines might, I suppose. I know of none...

A few airlines might, I suppose. I know of none in Europe that asks for a degree for pilots though. For some education to A level or equivalent is required (i.e. passes in exams normally taken at...
Forum: Private Flying
18th Dec 2009, 21:20
Replies: 36
Views: 13,506
Posted By 12Watt Tim

A quick piece of advice, slightly contrary to...

A quick piece of advice, slightly contrary to other answers here. One very fraught flight (the police put a TRA on the airspace I needed just before I took off; I was informed at the threshold) when...
Forum: Private Flying
18th Dec 2009, 21:04
Replies: 72
Views: 12,103
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Contacttower Sorry, but it appears that...

Contacttower

Sorry, but it appears that IO540 is massively exaggerating the difficulty of the issue.

What you want to do is perfectly normal, I have done it many times. Yes you will have to...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
18th Dec 2009, 19:57
Replies: 21
Views: 2,394
Posted By 12Watt Tim

I can see no purpose to the aviation-studies...

I can see no purpose to the aviation-studies degree. If you want a degree, do a proper one. If you want to be a pilot and don't specially want a degree do an independent ATPL. Especially if the...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
16th Dec 2009, 20:02
Replies: 72
Views: 8,833
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Having landed a Seneca in a 30-kt crosswind,...

Having landed a Seneca in a 30-kt crosswind, gusting 40, that is ludicrous! It is a far better crosswind aircraft than the demonstrated component suggests, although you have to be careful in a...
Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.
15th Dec 2009, 23:40
Replies: 30
Views: 5,926
Posted By 12Watt Tim

No, that was Flying Lawyer.

No, that was Flying Lawyer.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
15th Dec 2009, 17:32
Replies: 72
Views: 8,833
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Incredible, someone tries to give what they think...

Incredible, someone tries to give what they think is good advice on an open forum and someone else complains!

Look, there have been some replies from Oxford guys. However you should also now have...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
15th Dec 2009, 16:23
Replies: 1
Views: 1,471
Posted By 12Watt Tim

It is in flight planning and monitoring for IR...

It is in flight planning and monitoring for IR but not in Gen Nav (are they separate papers in the IR? I am just going from the learning objectives, I'm not familiar with the split of the IR papers)....
Forum: Rotorheads
15th Dec 2009, 14:23
Replies: 14
Views: 2,204
Posted By 12Watt Tim

"One school always comes out ahead with regard to...

"One school always comes out ahead with regard to personal recommendations..."

Errrmmm, actually personal recommendations I have heard suggest Heli Services in Wycombe. The same put Bristow second...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th Dec 2009, 08:52
Replies: 2,518
Views: 695,721
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Since the restriction to a licensed airfield only...

Since the restriction to a licensed airfield only applies to passenger flights anyway, as far as I can see it could even be flown as a revenue flight as they are freighters!

By the way when I say...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
15th Dec 2009, 08:30
Replies: 85
Views: 99,613
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Michael Then the large school needs more...

Michael

Then the large school needs more staff, paid for by the larger number of students! Three times the number of students you probably only need twice the admin staff, but whatever the numbers...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
15th Dec 2009, 00:52
Replies: 85
Views: 99,613
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Ideal is to pay after every flight, although even...

Ideal is to pay after every flight, although even before each flight is fine. Either way neither can lose a significant sum. There are schools that run like that by their choice, with the student...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
14th Dec 2009, 23:35
Replies: 85
Views: 99,613
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Don't put money down. Pay as you go. If they...

Don't put money down. Pay as you go. If they offer you a juicy discount to pay up-front, don't put money down. You can't lose what they haven't got, and if they are worrying that much about cash up...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
14th Dec 2009, 20:45
Replies: 72
Views: 8,833
Posted By 12Watt Tim

I could not have put it better myself, mad jock....

I could not have put it better myself, mad jock. Some people do not like being told though.
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
14th Dec 2009, 17:32
Replies: 7
Views: 5,495
Posted By 12Watt Tim

One exception, Whirls, is that it is considered...

One exception, Whirls, is that it is considered acceptable to advertise at the flying club.
Forum: Biz Jets, Ag Flying, GA etc.
14th Dec 2009, 15:55
Replies: 41
Views: 15,719
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Reading this thread alone, with no other...

Reading this thread alone, with no other perspective than a potential customer for handling services, it strikes me that Captain Earle's responses are not unreasonable.

It does appear that an...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
14th Dec 2009, 15:30
Replies: 396
Views: 88,818
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Did Oxford say that their modular course is not a...

Did Oxford say that their modular course is not a controlled environment? If it isn't controlled at a school where all is done in one continuous course (which it can be at Oxford) then you certainly...
Forum: Flying Instructors & Examiners
14th Dec 2009, 08:19
Replies: 9
Views: 10,829
Posted By 12Watt Tim

Ah, fair enough. It's always treated as...

Ah, fair enough. It's always treated as legally-binding anyway, and usually written to be over-cautious. I am really surprised if an ops manual was incorrect or incomplete in this regard and still...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
13th Dec 2009, 22:41
Replies: 2,518
Views: 695,721
Posted By 12Watt Tim

I have had to look this up in the past - working...

I have had to look this up in the past - working for a small operator we used to go into unlicensed airfields for some purposes even above 2730 kg (obviously not for pax). You might, however, be...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
13th Dec 2009, 13:35
Replies: 2,518
Views: 695,721
Posted By 12Watt Tim

"As Commercial Operations they can't take off nor...

"As Commercial Operations they can't take off nor land from an unlicensed strip as CAA has declared"

Are you sure?

N.B. Para 4 relates to police flights.

These would not, in any case, be...
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