For the past 6 months, this new baby pilot has been doing various nav ex to aerodromes such as Wellsbourne, Gloucester, Oxford, Southend, Leicester and Connington (many times) and lots of local VFR flights out of Cranfield. This flight to Old Sarum would now be testing as the route would cross RAF Benson MATZ (Military Air Traffic Zone), RAF Boscombe Down combined MATZ and routing away from Southampton Control Zone class D airspace to Old Sarum. Old Sarum is tucked neatly between Thruxton, Boscombe Down, Middle Wallop and the historic Cathedral town of Salisbury. The route back took us over Stonehenge, keeping south of danger zone and south of the A303, towards Andover, then back to RAF Benson and home to Cranfield. A brilliant day out!
When i woke this morning, I hadn’t expected that i would be doing some flying. Days that are this full of surprise are magical. Through my home window in West London, i could see the sun beaming through the high clouds. With my morning coffee , I called Cranfield having checked the TAFS and METARS on the web to book G-ECGC.
Continue reading ‘Local VFR flight: Cranfield to Oxford: C172/G-ECGC’
A wonderful article by Peter J. Kuznick:
On November 1, Paul Warfield Tibbets, Jr., the man who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, died at his Columbus, Ohio home at age 92. Continue reading ‘Defending the Indefensible: A Meditation on the Life of Hiroshima Pilot Paul Tibbets, Jr.’
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I became associated with Rotary International because they read about my pilot training during 2007. Because of flying, they asked me to help them in their campaign for eradicating polio from the world. The BBC Asia Today Programme kindly featured recent polio immunization day.. The Power of Dreams
The Aviator Ball – 24th November 2007, London, United Kingdom. The Aviator Ball will be hosting their first event at the Amadeus Centre in Maida Vale, London, UK on November 24th 2007. This Gala Charity Fundraising Ball will be in aid of the British Disabled Flying Association. Please Save the date in your diary and when full details are released on the event I will let everyone know. Put on your dancing wings.
It has been 4 weeks since i last flew the PA28 with the BDFA and Paul. I was loking forward to it alot. I met Paul just after and my friend Luca came with me. He and i got the plane ready, took the cover off – and i did the walk round, check the fuel including checking to make sure that there was no air in it and fitting the hand control. i am very stringent with these checks and i am getting quicker at doing them. Continue reading ‘ppl flying training – stalling and circuits’
AIRMANSHIP – DO THIS CHECK EVERY 15 MINS WHEN FLYING – F R E D A CHECK
F UEL
R ADIOS
E ENGINE – T X P
D IRECTIONAL INDICATOR
A LTIMETER – SET AS REQUIRED Continue reading ‘Day 4: straight & Level (2), revision’
Squadron Leader and test pilot who has died aged 85.
Neville Duke was born January 11th 1922. He died April 7th 2007.
Continue reading ‘Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC and two bars.’
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