Freedom in the Air and Pilot Magazine have partnered with Metropolis Music, the organisers of V-festival 2010, to offer a VIP weekend camping festival ticket-for-two through a raffle. Two runners-up will get a Freedom in the Air pilot shirt and hat. Raffle tickets cost £12 and the winner gets a pair of backstage camping tickets. This includes access to the VIP backstage bar where you can hang out with the rock stars. The V-festival is 21-22 August, 2010, at Hylands Park, Chelmsford. The nearest airport for those wishing to fly to the festival is Southend.
To enter visit www.freedomintheair.org/freedom-raffle/
The line-up includes Kings of Leon, Kasabian, Paul Weller, Pet Shop Boy and The Prodigy (shown). The winner will get a “Prodigy Goodie Bag” given by The Prodigy.
The raffle closes 10 August and the draw date is 15 August. Freedom in the Air will video the draw and post it online so you can see the draw take place. The winning ticket number will be posted to the Freedom in the Air website and the winner will be contacted directly by email and phone.
The promotion is to raise the profile of Freedom in the Air (FITA) – a unique not-for-profit flying school specifically for people with disabilities based at Cranfield Airport, EGTC. FITA is committed to opening horizons for people with disabilities so that they can fly higher socially, physically and professionally.
Some of you may have seen these before, but I enjoyed them, so I am letting you enjoy them again also.
“British Airways flight asks for push back clearance from terminal.”
Control Tower replies: “And where is the world’s most experienced airline going today without filing a flight plan?”
ATC: “Al Italia 345 continue taxi to 26L South via Tango — check for workers along taxiway.”
Al Italia 345: “Roger, Taxi 26 Left A via Tango. Workers checked — all are working”
Nova 851: “Halifax Terminal, Nova 851 with you out of 13,000 for 10,000, requesting runway 15.”
Halifax Terminal (female): “Nova 851, Halifax, the last time I gave a pilot what he wanted I was on penicillin for three weeks. Expect runway 06.”
ATC: “Cessna 123, what are your intentions? “
Cessna: “To get my Commercial Pilots License and Instrument Rating.”
ATC: “I meant in the next five minutes not years.”
Cessna 152: “Flight Level Three Thousand, Seven Hundred”
Controller: “Roger, contact Houston Space Center”
Student Pilot: “I’m lost; I’m over a big lake and heading toward the big “E.”
Controller: “Make several 90 degree turns so I can identify you on radar.”
(Short pause)…
Controller: “Okay then. That big lake is the Atlantic Ocean. Suggest you turn to the big “W” immediately.”
Tower: “American…and for your information, you were slightly to the left of the centerline on that approach.”
American: “That’s correct; and my First Officer was slightly to the right”
Controller: “FAR1234 confirm your type of aircraft. Are you an Airbus 330 or 340?”
Pilot: “A340 of course!”
Controller: “Then would you mind switching on the two other engines and give me 1000 feet per minute, please?”
Tower: “Cessna 123, turn right now and report your heading.”
Pilot: “Wilco. 341, 342, 343, 344, 345…”
Foreign Pilot Trainee: “Tower, please speak slowly, I am a baby in English and lonely in the cockpit”
Controller: “CRX600, are you on course to SUL?”
Pilot: “More or less.”
Controller: “So proceed a little bit more to SUL.”
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One of my close friends William got married at the weekend. It was a very very cool wedding. It was great to see old friends and make new friends. My initial plan was to fly from Cranfield to Chichester which was only 8 miles away from the wedding venue which was Hampshire Cottage – An amazing home owned by Rupert who has become a friend. Rupert is a lawyer, photographer and philanthropist doing amazing work in Bangladesh.
My friend Gavin loves his hop hop and drum and bass – he also runs a fashion company called THTC – The Hemp Trading company – during last years new years celebrations, Gaving produced a pilots log book – it was his brothers who trained in Africa many years ago – this is a funny video that Gavin made – check it – all the sounds are done by the human beatbox – not sure what the US or French rappers would think to this – who cares!
As I drove down the A40 (the westway) past the BBC, i could see in the distance a departing aeroplane taking off from Heathrow rway 09. I was thinking that it could be a very heavy 747 as the take off seemed very slow – as I stopped at the lights, i could see that it was the lunchtime departure for the Singapore airlines A380. It was my first sighting of the super jumbo taking off across london. I live right under the flight path to heathrow and i was really liking the silky way the aeroplanes climbs. The plane is very big as i right behind the A380 was a Quantas 747-400 which looked smaller from the ground
This afternoon, i received a parcel and it was a gift from my friend Scott. he sent me a pair of headphones which are very funky and cool. They sound pretty awesome too and i can now have a nice sound to listen to when editing movies. I said to him as a thank you that i would get a nice picture of me wearing them when i see Cherie Blair this sunday. Check out their website http://www.wesc.com/ - I wonder whether they could make a special range for us pilots – i will ask….
02
Apr
The difference between a duck and a copilot?
The duck can fly.
A check ride ought to be like a skirt.
Short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover everything.
Speed is life.
Altitude is life insurance.
It only takes two things to fly:
Airspeed, and money.
The three most dangerous things in aviation:
1. A Doctor or Dentist in a Bonanza.
2. Two captains in a DC-9.
3. A flight attendant with a chipped tooth.
28
Mar
I picked my friend up from Heathrow this morning. He returned after spending a few months in Nepal. During his travels, he met a photographer. My friend Paul explained to the photographer that I was a pilot and to his surprise he had taken this photograph of Gautam Budha Airport (my own name is Gautam)….a nice message from the photographer too which reads “Dear Gautam, maybe one day you will fly to the birthplace of your namesake”
cheeky me has edited the image to make me the Budha….zoom in to the face for a close up. I have to one day visit this airport..
20
Jan
Dickens’s comic masterpiece follows Nicholas Nickleby, left penniless on the death of his father, as he escapes the influence of his villainous Uncle Ralph and the tyrannical Continue reading ‘Nicholas Nickleby’
Over christmas, i caught up with a Andrew Cully who was at University with me. We have a lot in common and during the last 11 years have become great friends. Rusty, Andrew and myself travelled all around India together being hippies.
26
Oct
I got a really lovely message today from a friend of my mothers in who is living in New York City. He had visited Freedom in the Air and was liking what can be possible for people in aviation with disabilities..he included this nice psalm – a thought provoking message that we need from time to time.
The Lord is my Sky Pilot,
I will not be afraid.
He lets me fly over green pastures
And guides me across many waters,
As He refreshes my soul.
He elevates me to the Sun above the clouds,
Where His name is exalted.
Even though I fly through times
Of turbulence and stormy weather,
I will fear no fall;
For You are with me,
Your stick and compass
They bring me in.
You prepare a landing for me
In the presence of adverse conditions.
You bless my flight with ample fuel
And my plane flies perfectly.
Surely good times and joy will follow me
All the flying hours of my life,
Then I will fly west and land
In the Lord’s aerodrome forever.
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