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Most memorable flight ..... ever!
It's impossible to tell how many Ppruners are actually pilots but, whatever the percentage, there's obviously a great wealth of experience/aviation stories out there which would be of interest to others.
If you had to pick your most memorable flight ever, which would it be? And, why?
Most enjoyable?
Most exciting?
Most frightening?
Most unusual, or interesting, aircraft?
An emergency which ended well?
Military or civil?
Fixed-wing or Rotary?
If it's difficult to choose just one, even better.
Tell us about more!
"There I was, nothing on the clock but the maker's name, ......."
If you had to pick your most memorable flight ever, which would it be? And, why?
Most enjoyable?
Most exciting?
Most frightening?
Most unusual, or interesting, aircraft?
An emergency which ended well?
Military or civil?
Fixed-wing or Rotary?
If it's difficult to choose just one, even better.
Tell us about more!
"There I was, nothing on the clock but the maker's name, ......."
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A couple here.
First solo. Coincided with Neil Armstrong's stroll on the moon. (Different year though)
Doing Coastwatch in a Shrike along the kimberley coast line. That was fun!
Finally, doing my first flight in a Dash 8 (after sim) on my birthday
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A Feral Animal.
First solo. Coincided with Neil Armstrong's stroll on the moon. (Different year though)
Doing Coastwatch in a Shrike along the kimberley coast line. That was fun!
Finally, doing my first flight in a Dash 8 (after sim) on my birthday
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A Feral Animal.
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Half an hours lunacy in the late Lefty Gardners P51 (back seat) looking UP at his house in Texas in a 90degree bank between house and garage, then taxying across a public road to park next to the swimming pool.
Then I KNEW what I had to do in life. Ive done most of it, but I still have to fly a Merlin engined fighter. Still, theres time...
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Then I KNEW what I had to do in life. Ive done most of it, but I still have to fly a Merlin engined fighter. Still, theres time...
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First day at my first paying flying job. 19 years old, had to drop skydivers at a big hot air balloon show in the states. Even got checked by a Fed that day. Sure got beautiful around sunset. And I was getting PAID to do this stuff. HA.
Sometimes life is good ...
Sometimes life is good ...
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I don't know if I should be posting here with only 160 hours, but I still get chills thinking of the first time I opened the throttle in the first twin I flew. This baby had power! Better then my first solo....
But I hope my most memorable flight ever is still coming up somewhere in the future.
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But I hope my most memorable flight ever is still coming up somewhere in the future.
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Late 1999. 3rd hour in a helicopter, after 15 years or so of always wanting to learn to fly them, never having the money, never making the Bristow's sponsorship which is why I'd forked out £5000 for a PPL in the first place 10 years before.
After a brief demo of how it works, I get to hover the thing. And it stayed there. And I said "F**k me, I've waited 15 years for this", and thought "F**k me, I CAN do it".
And I hovertaxied back to the pad after as well.
After a brief demo of how it works, I get to hover the thing. And it stayed there. And I said "F**k me, I've waited 15 years for this", and thought "F**k me, I CAN do it".
And I hovertaxied back to the pad after as well.
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Mine are mostly as pax with Betty's Flying Club (my own flying is nothing like as exciting):
1. 1.5 hrs at low-level in a Herc, standing behind the LHS, followed by TALO landing.
2. 3 hrs in the back of a large tandem rotor helicopter, flying around some South Atlantic Islands earlier this Year.
3. Short hop (VFR) in a Gulfstream 5 (isn't the cockpit small!)
4. As a pax in the back of a Cathay L1011, doing the IGS to 13 at HKG (1990)
5. 1 hr trip around SW England in an ex-Interflug IL18 (an aeroplane cast from solid
steel, or so it felt!)
Great experiences for me, I'm sure everyday occurences for a lot of you who read this.
1. 1.5 hrs at low-level in a Herc, standing behind the LHS, followed by TALO landing.
2. 3 hrs in the back of a large tandem rotor helicopter, flying around some South Atlantic Islands earlier this Year.
3. Short hop (VFR) in a Gulfstream 5 (isn't the cockpit small!)
4. As a pax in the back of a Cathay L1011, doing the IGS to 13 at HKG (1990)
5. 1 hr trip around SW England in an ex-Interflug IL18 (an aeroplane cast from solid
steel, or so it felt!)
Great experiences for me, I'm sure everyday occurences for a lot of you who read this.
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One of my most enjoyable flights was at Farranfore, (Kerry) in summer 1984 on a pleasure flight over the Lakes of Killarney on an Air Atlantique DC-3 - the day was dry and sunny and the lakes and mountains were gin clear. Such a treat to have been able to fly on such a classic aircraft. Magic!
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As crew being positioned from Inverness to Sumburgh in a BA Viscount in the mid 70's. Not above 1000ft the whole way and I have a cracking photo of the Old Man of Hoy - taken that day along the wing with both starboard props visible and the rock stack towering above the wing, and no we weren't in a turn, it was level flight way below 500ft!!
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as a pax the best ever was on my 18th birthday.......
Flew to JNB from GLA (via LHR) turns out the girlfriends big sister (a BM stewie) had been making a few phone calls. Got the jumpseat on the BM flight to LHR as well as a bag full of mini champers at the door with a couple of kises from stewies (girlf none too happy!!)
Then onto the SAA flight mysteriously bumped up to club (5 of us!!!) then as the 744 (hubba!) was climbing outta heathrow the purser comes over the tannoy giving the usual blurb then starts up with happy birthday to me!! Bog bottle of champers appears and a plesant few hours had by all then after breakfast i was invited to the flight deck for a VFR landing at Jo'burg in a 744......... what a great day!
As a pilot, the best so far in my whopping 38 hours, has to be my solo cross country. PIK-West Freugh-Carlisle, not a cloud in the sky and tootling along at 4,000ft thinking "I could get very very used to this......."
Right i think ive written enough now eh?
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Flew to JNB from GLA (via LHR) turns out the girlfriends big sister (a BM stewie) had been making a few phone calls. Got the jumpseat on the BM flight to LHR as well as a bag full of mini champers at the door with a couple of kises from stewies (girlf none too happy!!)
Then onto the SAA flight mysteriously bumped up to club (5 of us!!!) then as the 744 (hubba!) was climbing outta heathrow the purser comes over the tannoy giving the usual blurb then starts up with happy birthday to me!! Bog bottle of champers appears and a plesant few hours had by all then after breakfast i was invited to the flight deck for a VFR landing at Jo'burg in a 744......... what a great day!
As a pilot, the best so far in my whopping 38 hours, has to be my solo cross country. PIK-West Freugh-Carlisle, not a cloud in the sky and tootling along at 4,000ft thinking "I could get very very used to this.......
"Right i think ive written enough now eh?
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At the moment, the one I flew today,
A ho hum circuit detail but the first
in 3 months.
Not mine but surely the most memorable
for a friend of mine. During his Commercial
flight test, another aircraft, a twin went down
also during a flight test. He found himself circling
the site directing the emergency services to the
scene. And yes he passed.
Hard to beat that.
A ho hum circuit detail but the first
in 3 months.
Not mine but surely the most memorable
for a friend of mine. During his Commercial
flight test, another aircraft, a twin went down
also during a flight test. He found himself circling
the site directing the emergency services to the
scene. And yes he passed.
Hard to beat that.
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here is my friend's:
My most memorable flight would have to be my first solo flight. When I was early downwind in the circuit the tower cleared me as #2 to land behind a cherokee.But when I was late downwind the tower said that I was #2 behind a metro on long finals. I heard #2 so I turned base and cut right in front of the metro. The metro capt swore on the radio to confirm he was #1 to land as some idiot had just cut in front of him. He had to do an orbit on finals! and when on the ground the capt of the metro tracked me down and was just about to kill me but when he found out that it was my first solo he just smiled and bought me lunch!!!!!!!!!!
PS:He said that his first solo was just as worse.....
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Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on all those trips.
My most memorable flight would have to be my first solo flight. When I was early downwind in the circuit the tower cleared me as #2 to land behind a cherokee.But when I was late downwind the tower said that I was #2 behind a metro on long finals. I heard #2 so I turned base and cut right in front of the metro. The metro capt swore on the radio to confirm he was #1 to land as some idiot had just cut in front of him. He had to do an orbit on finals! and when on the ground the capt of the metro tracked me down and was just about to kill me but when he found out that it was my first solo he just smiled and bought me lunch!!!!!!!!!!
PS:He said that his first solo was just as worse.....
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Being an airline pilot would be great if you didn't have to go on all those trips.