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Forum: Private Flying
12th Jun 2023, 16:08
Replies: 5
Views: 1,194
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Guys, Thank you all for responding to my...

Hi Guys,
Thank you all for responding to my post.
I shall certainly try the approaches suggested.
Many thanks to one and all.
With best regards,
Broomstick.
Forum: Private Flying
24th May 2023, 16:27
Replies: 5
Views: 1,194
Posted By BroomstickPilot

I want to sell the headsets I hung up

Hi Guys,
I last flew in 2008, but kept my headsets as I hoped one day to return to flying. That didn't happen. So, effectively I hung up my headset in 2008. This means I still have two good...
Forum: Private Flying
3rd Jun 2021, 11:28
Replies: 7
Views: 2,139
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Pizzafly, Just a few final words. Many...

Hi Pizzafly,

Just a few final words. Many people looking to start the PPL gain the impression that it is a 45hr course. It isn't!

45 hrs is the legal minimum hrs in which you are permitted to...
Forum: Private Flying
2nd Jun 2021, 08:20
Replies: 7
Views: 2,139
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Pizzafly, I hung up my headset for the...

Hi Pizzafly,

I hung up my headset for the last time in 2008, so my information may well not be up to date. But I can still offer some useful advice at least. First of all, the advice we give to...
Forum: Private Flying
31st Dec 2019, 16:19
Replies: 28
Views: 3,460
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Why not ask MAF?

Hi Dubbs,
If the excellent advice already given isn't enough, may I suggest that it may be worth contacting 'Mission Aviation Fellowship' to pick their brains about what you need: I'm sure they'll...
Forum: Private Flying
27th Aug 2019, 12:52
Replies: 3
Views: 1,291
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi T18, Tell your nephew not to bother with the...

Hi T18,
Tell your nephew not to bother with the PPL. A couple of years ago, when visiting the Farnborough Air Show, I got into conversation with an instructor at the joint services aircrew training...
Forum: Private Flying
2nd Jan 2019, 00:25
Replies: 16
Views: 2,970
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi again Udder 38, The following comments refer...

Hi again Udder 38,
The following comments refer specifically to training in the UK. The question of whether to learn to fly ab-initio on tail wheel aircraft or on tricycles has several ‘pros’ and...
Forum: Private Flying
31st Dec 2018, 23:36
Replies: 16
Views: 2,970
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Tail-wheel training advice

Hi Udder 38,
I hung my headset up about ten years ago. So what follows here is based on a reply I wrote for a Ppruner back then. I don’t know how or whether the flight training milieu will have...
Forum: Private Flying
19th Oct 2018, 07:26
Replies: 85
Views: 16,060
Posted By BroomstickPilot

To Mary and Everybody

Thanks Glider Pilots, one and all, for some EXTREMELY interesting responses to my question on low-tow. It's clearly a much bigger subject than I thought it was.

Broomstick.
Forum: Private Flying
16th Oct 2018, 08:57
Replies: 85
Views: 16,060
Posted By BroomstickPilot

A Question for Mary Meagher

Hi Mary,
Thinking back to my own very short gliding career, I recalled how one day during an aero-tow my instructor demonstrated 'low tow'. For the benefit of those who have never done any gliding,...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
21st Jul 2018, 09:26
Replies: 76
Views: 17,415
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Anybody else think Farnborough's Cr*p?

Hi Guys,

I have lived fairly close to Farnborough for over 30 years. Attending the bi-annual Farnborough Air Show has been one of my regular summer treats for a very long time. In more recent...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Jan 2018, 16:20
Replies: 248
Views: 90,256
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Guys, I wish to respond to comments made...

Hi Guys,

I wish to respond to comments made on the first page of this thread.
I had hoped to comment earlier, using quotes from one of the financial newsletters I subscribe to, which I believed...
Forum: Private Flying
1st Jan 2018, 09:23
Replies: 76
Views: 20,179
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Guys, Above Heston says they're 'charts, not...

Hi Guys,
Above Heston says they're 'charts, not maps'. This is interesting. When I first began to learn to fly in the late 1950s, my ex RAF instructor taught me that maps were used to describe land...
Forum: Military Aviation
15th Dec 2017, 17:42
Replies: 28
Views: 6,573
Posted By BroomstickPilot

A civvie's two penneth: surely two can play the same game

Hi Guys,

When I was a very small child in the early 1940s I, along with everybody else in the civvy population, possessed a government issued gas mask. At the time it was feared that 'Jerry' might...
Forum: Rotorheads
18th Nov 2017, 07:54
Replies: 270
Views: 223,735
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Guys, In this thread I have seen two or...

Hi Guys,
In this thread I have seen two or three comments to the effect that in the turn visibility from the cockpit of a high wing aircraft is poorer than from a low wing aircraft. If these...
Forum: Private Flying
14th Apr 2017, 11:20
Replies: 19
Views: 3,418
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi guys, first of all, please excuse the...

Hi guys,

first of all, please excuse the capitals; i have broken my wrist, have my arm in plaster, and so have to type one fingered!

Ripline, i note that your sport's organising body is called...
Forum: Private Flying
17th Jan 2017, 05:32
Replies: 12
Views: 1,783
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Thanks Steps

Hi Step Turn,

Thank you for a most informative response to my post. I begin to understand why flying seaplanes is so absorbing.

Regards,

BP.
Forum: Private Flying
13th Jan 2017, 11:18
Replies: 12
Views: 1,783
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Guys, I'm totally ignorant of operations off...

Hi Guys,
I'm totally ignorant of operations off water but must confess to being fascinated by this thread.
Can anybody please tell me if the safety implications are any different if flying a flying...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th May 2016, 13:17
Replies: 17
Views: 4,235
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Public Sector Pension Heist

Hi sharpend,

I may be able to throw some light upon this for you.

I am a civvy and for very many years was a local government officer. Most public sector pensions always were, and still are,...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th May 2016, 11:06
Replies: 72
Views: 12,537
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Guys, Please forgive a civvy private...

Hi Guys,

Please forgive a civvy private pilot who would like to comment.

It is often said that a camel is really a horse that has been designed by a committee.

However when the committee...
Forum: Private Flying
22nd May 2016, 10:31
Replies: 34
Views: 6,786
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Sir George, Obviously, not all crashes are...

Hi Sir George,
Obviously, not all crashes are survivable precisely because of impact injuries, but many are. However you don't have to have a crash for fire to be a hazard. An instructor...
Forum: Private Flying
17th May 2016, 16:53
Replies: 34
Views: 6,786
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi ANCO, What you wear for flying depends on...

Hi ANCO,

What you wear for flying depends on how much flying you do, what you fly, where you fly (eg, arctic? tropics?) and what kind of flying you do.

For the average UK PPL, flying two hours...
Forum: Private Flying
13th May 2016, 10:47
Replies: 23
Views: 5,783
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Thanks Pipes

Hi Piperboy84,

Many thanks for a very comprehensive response.

What an interesting aircraft; I had no idea.

(It would seem that it's a pity rights to the Helio Courier could not have been...
Forum: Private Flying
11th May 2016, 08:07
Replies: 23
Views: 5,783
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi Piperboy84, I regret the matter you raise...

Hi Piperboy84,

I regret the matter you raise is not one I would have known anything about, so I hope you will forgive me for not posting about it.

However on another matter entirely, I have...
Forum: Private Flying
13th Oct 2015, 17:59
Replies: 8
Views: 2,022
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Places to consider

Hi Boriss,

I know nothing about Lee-0n-Solent.

However I can vouch for both Thruxton and Old Sarum, both of which should be reasonably convenient to where you are located with good instruction...
Forum: Rotorheads
16th Jun 2015, 08:14
Replies: 85
Views: 17,270
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Cotton flying suit

Hi Helimo,

I don't know why you want cotton as it would burn like a torch in the event of cockpit fire. (Don't use anything made of polycotton either because that melts onto your skin first - and...
Forum: Private Flying
1st Jun 2015, 07:00
Replies: 25
Views: 4,513
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Cub - a word of caution.

Hi Flying_Anorak,

Early in my sixties I took a trial ride in a Super Cub and much enjoyed it, however I pursued my flying elsewhere on other types.

Some years later, and now in my late sixties,...
Forum: Private Flying
20th May 2015, 08:36
Replies: 12
Views: 1,832
Posted By BroomstickPilot

sun glasses

Hi Shumway76,

To my knowledge the advice has always been to avoid photochromic glasses because, while they darken quickly in bright sunlight, if the sunlight fades they lighten very much more...
Forum: Private Flying
20th May 2015, 06:11
Replies: 12
Views: 1,587
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Ground training

Hi Maoraigh1,

I was't arguing for more training but rather for better training, or to be more specific, better ground training.

In my view current ground training, in so far as it may be said...
Forum: Private Flying
20th May 2015, 05:51
Replies: 24
Views: 4,663
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Good GA Pilot test

Oh and I forgot to include the obvious essential quality - common sense.

BP.
Forum: Private Flying
19th May 2015, 17:39
Replies: 24
Views: 4,663
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Test of a good GA Pilot

Hi Guys,

I have seen this question asked in various forms and in various places over the years. Invariably, the consensus seems to come down in favour of someone being able to fly a safe circuit...
Forum: Private Flying
19th May 2015, 16:54
Replies: 117
Views: 16,242
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Best Training Aeroplane

Hi Chuck,

For my money, the best basic training aeroplane is another Canadian design namely the De Havilland Chipmunk.

The RAF used it as their basic trainer for donkey's years; that must say...
Forum: Private Flying
19th May 2015, 09:43
Replies: 12
Views: 1,587
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Hi All, I'm sorry but I just do not like the...

Hi All,

I'm sorry but I just do not like the BRS parachute system. It may be OK in the vast open expanses of the US Middle West or the Australian Outback, but in the built up and crowded UK or the...
Forum: Private Flying
11th May 2015, 10:59
Replies: 18
Views: 4,608
Posted By BroomstickPilot

The realities of learning to glide

Hi Simp123

It's very many years since I was a member of London Gliding Club at Dunstable Downs, but there are a few things that will not have changed; in particular, the site itself. Dunstable is...
Forum: Private Flying
8th May 2015, 16:25
Replies: 16
Views: 3,459
Posted By BroomstickPilot

Ultimate High

Hi EC DKN,

I know nothing of Westbeach Flying School.

The people who used to offer a range of well regarded advanced flying training courses for PPLs, including an advanced PPL, were 'Ultimate...
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