Hello

Welcome aboard mate, if your’e not mad already you soon will be.

Thanks everyone!

Well, nearly everyone.

Ahh… Someone who shares my sense of sarcasm. Again… Welcome! 🙂

Paul

Thanks everyone!

Well, nearly everyone.

welcome to the only institution run by the inmates

Does anyone else feel they really know him now?

Hmm…

Welcome to the madhouse, Kieran. Hope you enjoy your stay! 🙂

Paul

Welcome aboard Kieran. 🙂

Hopefully your main interest lies in one of the aviation themed forums…..I think most of us come here when it’s quiet, or to relax or to let off steam…

…not necessarily in than order! 😀

Hi! 🙂

I hope ‘introduction threads’ are allowed in this forum, feel free to delete otherwise!

Hey, I’m Kieran and live in the UK and recently joined this forum. I hope to be posting regularly. 🙂

Does anyone else feel they really know him now?

Hi Roy, who are you thinking of flying with? The Flight Centre at Halfpenny Green?

It can’t hurt to start genning up on the books, but it largely depends on how much information gets absorbed and how able you are to tackle the (devilishly phrased) CAA exams. Ground helps with that to a degree. Once you’ve done a subject a book called the “PPL Confuser” will help you tackle the questions. If you pop over to the airside part of the Flight Centre, I know they sell copies.

A decent school will support you through your PPL. If not, start worrying! 😀

It took you long enough to find us – we’ll have to find somewhere else to hide…

Welcome to the Forum!

Welcome
Glad to see the UK PPL can fly Aircraft the USAF can’t…..

Welcome to the forum.

How do, didn’t you sell me a book the other week? 😉

I was directed to this forum by a good friend of mine who flys a ‘Chippie’.

He’s a good guy, but, obviously, a poor judge of character.:)

Welcome to the forum Chriszydiamond!

Welcome mate,ex QANTAS sheety myself a loooong time ago,just found my calling again these last coupla years and the insanity never stops.Only been here a little while but the guys let you settle in pretty well.

I have had a bit of time on the PBY, Bristol Fighter, F4U, F6 & F7F.

How long ago was that?

Welcome.

welcome moocher,
The best thing about this forum is you can ask just about any question and get a civil answer within minutes.
I hope you enjoy yourself on here and look forward to reading any posts of yours about your career and experiences. 🙂
dave………

I have never really introduced myself either.

Im way above average interested in ww2 aviation especially. 25 years old..student.

Went to Duxford in 2005..my first time. Absolutely blown away by seeing 7 or 8 Spits flying past me. Going again this year with my father, he’s just like me, very interested indeed.

My field of knowlegde so to speak mostly involves the norwegian fighter squadrons during ww2 and its pilots, but I have also been lecturing junior high school students in Norway about Battle of Britain for a day. I liked that a lot 🙂

Hello moocher and welcome.

Nice to have another engineer on board. 😀

And if you started on ‘billy-bunters’, what else have you been involved with? And are you involved with anything ‘historic’ now?

Quite a lot of what is now called “historic” I was a member of the Battle of Brittain flight in the 80s working with some of the best guys in the buisiness, guys like Pete (gerbs) Jeffery, Bob Mitchell, Dave Payne, Ian Peart, Steve kingman, Andy Patton the list goes on, a really great bunch of guys to work with and boy can the drink.
I have had a bit of time on the PBY, Bristol Fighter, F4U, F6 & F7F.
Good types and nice to work on.

I see from your post you are a photographer, have you had much luck getting your work published, i suppose you need to be really good to have your work used in the public domain.

I, like a few others on this forum get by with a few published shots. Pick up a copy of the Duxford airshow program on Sunday, and that may help answer your question. 😉