ccscott49
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I thought any landing you walked away from was a good one!
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Bored of Surrey.
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BarryH
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Well, I went and did it. How can I put this......anticlimax! Not what I thought it was going to be. I know it was just a "taster" lesson, but the buzz I thought I was going to get from it, didn't. Felt fairly tame and on one occasion, quiet uncomfortable. In short it didn't 'float my boat'. This was in a light aircraft, don't know wether a helicopter would be different, can't be much noisier! Not going to spend anymore on it though!
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duncan
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Sort of warned you..........reliant robin with wings most of the small light aircraft
You need a good engine (250+) in a light highly stressed aircraft on a clear day - then you beat a bike hands down, for a few hours.
Just go boating!
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You need a good engine (250+) in a light highly stressed aircraft on a clear day - then you beat a bike hands down, for a few hours.
Just go boating!
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h4nym
New member
This thread has out me off ! Was really planning to do it... but was a little worried about enrolling in a flying school in the US - "Hello, my name's Mustapha, I live in the UK and I'd like to learn to fly please!"
Oh well - now that you've documented ur disappointment... u gonna stay on the water or has swmbo won the day?
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<hr width=100% size=1>Life balance?
Oh well - now that you've documented ur disappointment... u gonna stay on the water or has swmbo won the day?
H
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Steve_D
New member
Before you give up all thoughts of Flying have a go at Gliding it gave me a serious rush! especially winch launches and its NOT a case of once round the field and back down either.
I am very much a novice but in soaring conditions I can stay up for hours the Chief Flying Instructor at my club has done a 500km flight and is planning a 750km soon last year he reported having to stop climbing at 24,000 feet I understand that you have to declare to the air traffic people if you go above that height.
a Trial flight will cost about 25-30 quid The link below will find you a local club, It feels much better than powered flight IMO and the only noise you'll get is the wind.
Its worth a go, unless you've flown in fighters or something you will not believe the sensation on a winch launch, I didn't stop grinning for weeks.
http:// http://www.gliding.co.uk/findaclub/ukmap.htm
Steve D
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I am very much a novice but in soaring conditions I can stay up for hours the Chief Flying Instructor at my club has done a 500km flight and is planning a 750km soon last year he reported having to stop climbing at 24,000 feet I understand that you have to declare to the air traffic people if you go above that height.
a Trial flight will cost about 25-30 quid The link below will find you a local club, It feels much better than powered flight IMO and the only noise you'll get is the wind.
Its worth a go, unless you've flown in fighters or something you will not believe the sensation on a winch launch, I didn't stop grinning for weeks.
http:// http://www.gliding.co.uk/findaclub/ukmap.htm
Steve D
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BrendanS
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Agree. Powered flying can be a bit like driving a car sometimes. Winch launched gliding is great fun, as are bungee launches.
Then I discovered Hang Gliding..try launching off a cliff for the first time (you need a little experience first) knowing that you can't land at the bottom, so have to get lift or else. Gets the adrenaline going a treat, but is a seriously safe sport. I accidently went to 14,000 ft in my first week of solo flying - got caught in a standing wave, and they had to line up the cars on the groud with the headlights on as makeshift 'runway' lights as it was getting dark by the time I landed.
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Then I discovered Hang Gliding..try launching off a cliff for the first time (you need a little experience first) knowing that you can't land at the bottom, so have to get lift or else. Gets the adrenaline going a treat, but is a seriously safe sport. I accidently went to 14,000 ft in my first week of solo flying - got caught in a standing wave, and they had to line up the cars on the groud with the headlights on as makeshift 'runway' lights as it was getting dark by the time I landed.
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hlb
RIP
I once got a free Birthday prsent off my son. Flying leasons from Blackoool. Well we turned up. I sat in the passenger seat besideds the driver. In a moris miner seat!! E pulled out the throttle and said. Your suppost to be flying it. So get on with it.. Anyway I was trying to remember my does on the confuser flight simulater. It's not quite the same!! But I did get Browny points for gettting it up and down again. Not trying it again. Much prefere boats!!
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Haydn
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Haydn
Steve_D
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There is often good wave at my club thats what got the CFI up to 24,000 feet, at a glide ratio of 40:1 that gives 200 odd miles range without additional lift. 14,000 feet in a hanglider must have been scary, we are supposed to use oxygen above 10,000 I believe, the most I have managed was about 4,000 but I don't get to fly often, no Gliding on guernsey ;-(
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BrendanS
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As I'd only been at most about a few hundred feet off the ground, and it was only in my first week of flying, without an instructor in attendance (he'd left me in the supervision of some careful experienced pilots as I'd progressed and qualified quicker than some on the course) it was, uhh, pretty scary!
I'd jumped off Merthyr Common in South Wales on a lovely sunny late evening, with the intention of bottom landing, then wait for a vehicle to turn up to take me back to the school. Couldn't understand why I was getting higher and higher.
Remember watching about 10-15 experienced glider pilots scrambling to take off one after another below me. They'd all been lounging around, waiting for some thing like it, and they realised what had caught me, classic conditions. They all failed though, as the wave had already risen above the hill, and they all bottom landed. It was just pure coincidence that I happened to get into it, being in right place at right time.
It was really scary, as no matter what I did, I kept going up and up. I was only about 18, and if I hadn't already been a glider pilot and used to being up there, I'd have freaked completely. It was like going up in a turbo lift. I eventually remembered a fairly extreme maneouvre, that I'd read about and we'd possibly chatted about one evening in the pub while training - tuck feet over the control bar, which puts the glider into a near dive.
I can remember being up there watching the sun setting quite spectacularly, when a little logical thought broke in that if the sun was setting up there, then it must be a little darker on the ground
Bloody wonderful when I landed, and never really knew how high I had been, as no altimeter, but the guys on the ground estimated it from time and observation, and questioning me afterwards about time of setting of sun while I was on the way down etc.
Sad thing is I never managed it again when I was more experienced, and would have enjoyed it!
Where about's is your club. Wave is quite a rare phenomena. It happens at Merthyr because of the lines of parallel hills and valleys that cause an amplified standing wave effect.
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I'd jumped off Merthyr Common in South Wales on a lovely sunny late evening, with the intention of bottom landing, then wait for a vehicle to turn up to take me back to the school. Couldn't understand why I was getting higher and higher.
Remember watching about 10-15 experienced glider pilots scrambling to take off one after another below me. They'd all been lounging around, waiting for some thing like it, and they realised what had caught me, classic conditions. They all failed though, as the wave had already risen above the hill, and they all bottom landed. It was just pure coincidence that I happened to get into it, being in right place at right time.
It was really scary, as no matter what I did, I kept going up and up. I was only about 18, and if I hadn't already been a glider pilot and used to being up there, I'd have freaked completely. It was like going up in a turbo lift. I eventually remembered a fairly extreme maneouvre, that I'd read about and we'd possibly chatted about one evening in the pub while training - tuck feet over the control bar, which puts the glider into a near dive.
I can remember being up there watching the sun setting quite spectacularly, when a little logical thought broke in that if the sun was setting up there, then it must be a little darker on the ground
Bloody wonderful when I landed, and never really knew how high I had been, as no altimeter, but the guys on the ground estimated it from time and observation, and questioning me afterwards about time of setting of sun while I was on the way down etc.
Sad thing is I never managed it again when I was more experienced, and would have enjoyed it!
Where about's is your club. Wave is quite a rare phenomena. It happens at Merthyr because of the lines of parallel hills and valleys that cause an amplified standing wave effect.
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