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Forum: Private Flying
2nd Jan 2020, 23:51
Replies: 7
Views: 1,670
Posted By 150commuter

I learnt to fly at Clacton in 1991-92 and I'm...

I learnt to fly at Clacton in 1991-92 and I'm still flying so they must have got something right. I did my PPL in two residential periods of about a fortnight each and being around flying and other...
Forum: Professional Pilot Training (includes ground studies)
2nd Jan 2020, 23:15
Replies: 6
Views: 1,102
Posted By 150commuter

Nothing wrong with pursuing a medical career and...

Nothing wrong with pursuing a medical career and being a private pilot. I have a junior hospital doctor (an orthopaedic surgeon) in my C150 group and he did a large chunk of his training with the...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
25th Sep 2019, 10:29
Replies: 43
Views: 38,217
Posted By 150commuter

I disagree. Though wild speculation helps nobody,...

I disagree. Though wild speculation helps nobody, especially not those bereaved, thoughtful discussion of possible causes is educational for all of us (who are pilots)
Forum: Private Flying
8th Nov 2018, 21:08
Replies: 106
Views: 33,576
Posted By 150commuter

ISTR that being the case even when we were in the...

ISTR that being the case even when we were in the EEC but before it had become the EU. There were several cases of French customs (possibly others but France is where most G aircraft going abroad...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Sep 2016, 16:02
Replies: 109
Views: 38,659
Posted By 150commuter

I sort of enjoyed the series in parts but there...

I sort of enjoyed the series in parts but there was far too much misprepresentaion of private flying along the lines of us being either incompetent plonkers who can't keep out of CAS or high net...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
24th Aug 2015, 12:36
Replies: 1,087
Views: 1,029,508
Posted By 150commuter

Whatever the cause of this accident the fact is...

Whatever the cause of this accident the fact is that this was a well maintained aircraft flown by a very experienced, skilled and careful pilot (who I really hope makes a complete recovery) and...
Forum: ATC Issues
13th Dec 2014, 14:18
Replies: 186
Views: 99,764
Posted By 150commuter

Offa That's just what someone's recently added...

Offa
That's just what someone's recently added to the Wiki entry for Jovial. It has no particular authority and I doubt whether the contributor has any more of an inside track on the problem than...
Forum: Private Flying
1st Nov 2014, 19:55
Replies: 41
Views: 6,314
Posted By 150commuter

I've had two experiences of this from opposite...

I've had two experiences of this from opposite perspectives.
In one, very soon after take-off, the aircraft slowed alarmingly and despite lowering the nose continued to slow. It took me a moment to...
Forum: Private Flying
21st Aug 2013, 16:43
Replies: 47
Views: 20,464
Posted By 150commuter

She's a very experienced live TV presenter going...

She's a very experienced live TV presenter going back to the birth of Channel 4 so knowing the cameras were there wouldn't have fazed her. They interviewed her about an hour before the flight but...
Forum: Private Flying
19th Aug 2013, 16:48
Replies: 54
Views: 6,949
Posted By 150commuter

Frankly I think you're well out of this one....

Frankly I think you're well out of this one. Though some people have had good experiences with small ones and they may be genuine cost sharing arrangements I've always been a bit dubious about...
Forum: Private Flying
10th Aug 2013, 17:53
Replies: 25
Views: 5,549
Posted By 150commuter

In a twelve member Cessna 150 group I pay £40 per...

In a twelve member Cessna 150 group I pay £40 per month and £60 per hour. Add to that about £10 per month for flying club membership and the same for an annual medical (though that's optional if you...
Forum: Private Flying
12th Aug 2012, 10:59
Replies: 191
Views: 158,769
Posted By 150commuter

Mine was at about 16 hours seven days into a...

Mine was at about 16 hours seven days into a residential course and I'd also had a couple of hours on a completely different aircraft at another club. Maybe at 40 I was a slower learner than some but...
Forum: Private Flying
12th Aug 2012, 10:40
Replies: 100
Views: 18,886
Posted By 150commuter

I suspect the final NTSB report may not shed much...

I suspect the final NTSB report may not shed much more light on this accident but perhaps Leslie Gropp the pilot may be prepared to share his reflections on the incident once any legal stuff has...
Forum: Private Flying
13th May 2012, 23:08
Replies: 26
Views: 4,665
Posted By 150commuter

Congratulations Ron One of the big milestones...

Congratulations Ron
One of the big milestones and the best news is that some of the others- first solo nav, first solo land away- are as good or even better.
I found a point towards the end of my...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Jan 2012, 15:43
Replies: 196
Views: 35,253
Posted By 150commuter

Mine was on a Tupolev 104A from Moscow to...

Mine was on a Tupolev 104A from Moscow to Leningrad during a school trip to Russia in 1967. The boiled sweet wrappers were still on the floor from the previous flight. It didn't put me off flying...
Forum: Private Flying
31st Jul 2011, 22:29
Replies: 134
Views: 37,970
Posted By 150commuter

negligible threat to third parties

The truth is that, though light aircraft do pose a risk to those of us who fly them as the death of Mr Dalglish very sadly illustrates, they pose almost no risk at all to people on the ground and I...
Forum: Private Flying
17th Oct 2010, 23:39
Replies: 18
Views: 7,877
Posted By 150commuter

"....explains why the USA is littered with...

"....explains why the USA is littered with wreckage, of everything from Cessnas to 747s, and why most planes crashing in Europe are N-reg"

IO540 Could you tell us where the basis for that...
Forum: Private Flying
17th Apr 2010, 20:55
Replies: 73
Views: 24,221
Posted By 150commuter

The current NOTAM says Perfectly good...

The current NOTAM says

Perfectly good advice and I certainly wouldn't fly at levels where I thought I might encounter ash but this is certainly not advice not to fly. Also, since when did pilots...
Forum: Private Flying
16th Apr 2010, 22:18
Replies: 288
Views: 63,321
Posted By 150commuter

I noticed that several regional airports...

I noticed that several regional airports including Southampton and Norwich were NOTAMd closed and their ATZs were also closed. Doesn't that mean we can fly VFR over them as much as we like or have I...
Forum: Private Flying
16th Apr 2010, 16:33
Replies: 288
Views: 63,321
Posted By 150commuter

plenty of GA - not mentioned by the media

I'm rather surprised that there's apparently been no coverage of the aircraft that are flying. I used to work on BBC regional news and if I were there now I'd have had a crew and reporter at Popham...
Forum: Private Flying
31st Jan 2010, 20:10
Replies: 72
Views: 15,758
Posted By 150commuter

I think he would have been referred to as a...

I think he would have been referred to as a "seaman" on every ship where he wasn't the Master.
I've just dug out my "Seaman's Discharge Book" (no kidding it really is called that) from my brief...
Forum: Private Flying
28th Jan 2010, 11:46
Replies: 72
Views: 15,758
Posted By 150commuter

captain a courtesy title

I'm pretty sure that outside the military, where Captain is a fairly junior rank in the army and a fairly senior rank in the navy, the term Captain has no real legal definition at all and was really...
Forum: Private Flying
5th Jul 2009, 12:19
Replies: 107
Views: 18,762
Posted By 150commuter

Perhaps a possible answer if WW (and any other...

Perhaps a possible answer if WW (and any other similar club) wants to keep itself as a pure flying club rather than as a public facility is to simply say that visiting pilots and their passengers are...
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