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The day I took my old man flying was very special. He's an 18,000 hour pilot with airline experience and he was pretty scared about going for a whirl in a 172 at the local training airport with a dozen others like me.
After a few circuits of him sitting there with white knuckles on the dash spotting planes left, right and centre he said to me, "you obviously know what you're doing. I'll get in the back get a circuit on video". He did exactly that and having Dad as my first passenger in those circumstances was fantastic.
I'm sure plenty of others out there have similar stories.
After a few circuits of him sitting there with white knuckles on the dash spotting planes left, right and centre he said to me, "you obviously know what you're doing. I'll get in the back get a circuit on video". He did exactly that and having Dad as my first passenger in those circumstances was fantastic.
I'm sure plenty of others out there have similar stories.
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An empty DC-6 positioning Frankfurt-Hannover and on to Brussels, then Brussels-Munich in a Modern Air CV-990.
An old DC-8 Frankfurt-LGW-Denver.
A Dragon Rapide from Portsmouth, my first flight.
A Tiger Moth from a Russian Army Hind base near Magdeburg, my first looping. My second looping was in a Jet Provost from North Weald, and my third in a Yak-52 above Brighton Pier in March this year.
A Proctor from White Waltham to Toussus via LGW, 1963.
A Citation from Jo'burg to Cape Town ten years ago.
An East African VC-10 from Frankfurt to LHR.
A Twin Comanche from near Paris to Cairo, down the Nile to Abu Simbel, up to Amman and down to Aqaba.
Rhodos to Egelsbach in a Cessna 337, glorious view of the Alps.
A similar view of the Alps from the flightdeck of a LH A321 at a specially requested FL200 (just for lickle me).
LH's JU-52 from Egelsbach to Biggin Hill two years ago, followed Sally B in, tragic show though.
An empty Eagle Viking from Blackbushe in 1958.
And a British Eagle Viscount on which I emigrated in 1965.
Lots of wonderful memories.
May they continue (to be added to)!
An old DC-8 Frankfurt-LGW-Denver.
A Dragon Rapide from Portsmouth, my first flight.
A Tiger Moth from a Russian Army Hind base near Magdeburg, my first looping. My second looping was in a Jet Provost from North Weald, and my third in a Yak-52 above Brighton Pier in March this year.
A Proctor from White Waltham to Toussus via LGW, 1963.
A Citation from Jo'burg to Cape Town ten years ago.
An East African VC-10 from Frankfurt to LHR.
A Twin Comanche from near Paris to Cairo, down the Nile to Abu Simbel, up to Amman and down to Aqaba.
Rhodos to Egelsbach in a Cessna 337, glorious view of the Alps.
A similar view of the Alps from the flightdeck of a LH A321 at a specially requested FL200 (just for lickle me).
LH's JU-52 from Egelsbach to Biggin Hill two years ago, followed Sally B in, tragic show though.
An empty Eagle Viking from Blackbushe in 1958.
And a British Eagle Viscount on which I emigrated in 1965.
Lots of wonderful memories.
May they continue (to be added to)!
The greatest privelege of my flying career was to fly Jeffrey Quill in a 2-seat Spitfire on 14 Sep '88. The aircraft (G-CTIX) was owned at the time by the late Charles Church. We took off from Charles's strip at Roundwood, then Jeffrey flew us over the old Supermarine experimental airfield at High Post and over Boscombe Down. I only took over control again just before landing back at Roundwood. He still had a wonderful feel for the Spitfire and was one of the most humble and interesting people that I have ever met. I believe that it was Jeffrey's last trip in a Spitfire; it was undoubtably my most memorable.
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1. Cameroon Airways. Douala - Yaounde. Big big storm. Nasty 732. Still looking for a PPruner who can tell me how bad it really was.
2. Woman in seat in front going into labour. 742 top deck, if you must know.
3. Terrorist attack at airport. Not much fun.
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2. Woman in seat in front going into labour. 742 top deck, if you must know.
3. Terrorist attack at airport. Not much fun.
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An enjoyable thread to read !
My memories are :-
First Flight - In a RAF HS125 out of Northolt with circuits at Benson, it was handy being in the local ATC Squadron !
First Helicopter flight - In a RAF Whirlwind out of Northolt, I felt ill before we had even taken off !
Chipmunk flying.... Enough said already ... the most uncomfortable experience, I dont know how we were supposed to jump out of them in a hurry when it was near on impossible to get in them on the ground......
Being in a Virgin Viscount from Gatwick to Maastricht & back again, the crew let me stay in the cockpit from start to finish on the return sector, even though there wasnt a jump seat !
Being on board the last commercial flight of the Comet from Gatwick on the 9th November 1980, a very memorable take off and overshoots and I made my first appearance on the TV ! ( ITV news )
My one and only VC10 & B707 flights...... Classic planes !
Being in the back of a RAF Tristar over the North Sea watching the air to air refuelling of Harriers and an E3.......
Aerobatics in a Lynx Helicopter..........
and my highlight....... Having a hands on go at flying a Sea King...... I even landed it after bringing it into the hover !
I could go on...... but it looks like I have already !
IanH
My memories are :-
First Flight - In a RAF HS125 out of Northolt with circuits at Benson, it was handy being in the local ATC Squadron !
First Helicopter flight - In a RAF Whirlwind out of Northolt, I felt ill before we had even taken off !
Chipmunk flying.... Enough said already ... the most uncomfortable experience, I dont know how we were supposed to jump out of them in a hurry when it was near on impossible to get in them on the ground......
Being in a Virgin Viscount from Gatwick to Maastricht & back again, the crew let me stay in the cockpit from start to finish on the return sector, even though there wasnt a jump seat !
Being on board the last commercial flight of the Comet from Gatwick on the 9th November 1980, a very memorable take off and overshoots and I made my first appearance on the TV ! ( ITV news )
My one and only VC10 & B707 flights...... Classic planes !
Being in the back of a RAF Tristar over the North Sea watching the air to air refuelling of Harriers and an E3.......
Aerobatics in a Lynx Helicopter..........
and my highlight....... Having a hands on go at flying a Sea King...... I even landed it after bringing it into the hover !
I could go on...... but it looks like I have already !
IanH
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Grabbing a jolly in the Catalina at Middle Wallop (in the airshow many many many moons ago)
Polution spraying in a DC-3 with 6 others (DC-3s) at around 20ft over the sea at Milford Haven. 7 Dac's in tight formation, watching the sea come up to meet you is dam good fun!!! And then a ride back in a Cessna 310. A good couple of days.
Polution spraying in a DC-3 with 6 others (DC-3s) at around 20ft over the sea at Milford Haven. 7 Dac's in tight formation, watching the sea come up to meet you is dam good fun!!! And then a ride back in a Cessna 310. A good couple of days.
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Last summer in georgous weather from Paris to Sion - one of these bright perfect days without a trace of moisture in the air. Cancelled IFR overhead Sion to scratch by the Matterhorn (not by 500ft like No Comment though... but impressively close), left turn to descend to FL80, joining the valley to follow the ILS 25 (you know the one where Jeppesen said to follow the glide until 2000ft AGL and then follow the motorway until you are visual with the Runway), circling with the mountain on our right wing to 07. Speed in base turn 145kts, ROD 1500ft... the turn was almost too wide for the tight valley!! but we could not go any slower with the MD80. After ldg vacating the RWY, joining the taxiway, me sitting on the rim of the open window to check whether the tyre would stay on the narrow concrete strip during taxi. This day I could have walked away from the a/c and never touch it again, it just could not get any better!!! But someone had to fly the pax to GVA, where we performed a CAT III approach 
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And then the day I had the pleasure to take my parents on a trip... coming back to Zürich, performing a VOR28 appch with icing btw FL 120 an 80 (I have never seen the windshield cover completely that quickly
). Massive workload, my father with big eyes and relieved after smooth touchdown... and yes, extremely proud and telling me so. Did feel good.
Now our MD80 has gone out of operation. I will miss her. Can it get any better?
Cheers
Av
.And then the day I had the pleasure to take my parents on a trip... coming back to Zürich, performing a VOR28 appch with icing btw FL 120 an 80 (I have never seen the windshield cover completely that quickly
). Massive workload, my father with big eyes and relieved after smooth touchdown... and yes, extremely proud and telling me so. Did feel good. Now our MD80 has gone out of operation. I will miss her. Can it get any better?
Cheers
Av
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This is not especially memorable but it was good.
I was in my Islander at Biggin. I loaded up with 9 aviation photographers and at the agreed point Mark Hanna in a P2 sat on my left wing - well almost under it actually but moved back and forth in fine margins to let the guys get their pics. Great formation flying.
On the other wing was Dave Perrin in a Pitts S2. His flying, as I had known from the days I used to fly with him to keep him legal at the age of 15/16, was immaculate and he moved under back and forth after Mark had departed. Then in formation he went inverted and followed me in every turn I made - not 6 feet away at any time. Still clear in my mind that!
D'you know I never saw ONE of those pics. Any of the photographies got any?
I was in my Islander at Biggin. I loaded up with 9 aviation photographers and at the agreed point Mark Hanna in a P2 sat on my left wing - well almost under it actually but moved back and forth in fine margins to let the guys get their pics. Great formation flying.
On the other wing was Dave Perrin in a Pitts S2. His flying, as I had known from the days I used to fly with him to keep him legal at the age of 15/16, was immaculate and he moved under back and forth after Mark had departed. Then in formation he went inverted and followed me in every turn I made - not 6 feet away at any time. Still clear in my mind that!
D'you know I never saw ONE of those pics. Any of the photographies got any?
