Why do annuals always take longer than promised.

Moggy, How much longer than promised? And was there any problems to be dealt with beyond the Inspection aspect? You know, the usual. Engine change, wing replacement, other similar minor tasks…

😡 I’m painting bloody window frames instead of bimbling across E Anglia whilst my aircraft sits in the maintenance shop on the best flying day I’ve seen since the last best flying day I saw.

Grrrrr 😡

Moggy

It isn’t any more! Was that you I saw carrying out a pre-flight this afternoon?

:D:D:D

Trinny, no need to bother with annuals, he’s unfixable :p

Ah forgive me. I misunderstood something that Mrs Moggy said 😉

..Not sure what that has to do with Moggy and his annual though 😉

No! It’s the aircraft’s, not mine 😉

Moggy

Not at all Janie.

They had lent it to the lovely Carolyn for a ‘Proms show and Spitfire display’.

Presumably hers was in the menders.

Moggy

Les Forts de Latour does nicely compliment Epoisses though 🙂 Not sure what that has to do with Moggy and his annual though 😉

The old crate to the left was flown in by some woman or other.

I trust you are not being defamatory about the male TFC pilots! It’s the “other” that troubles me most.

Trinny: You just haven’t lived. A good value sausage with a perfectly preserved bottle of 1995 Les Forts des Latour makes for a quality meal. There is no point in wasting your best Pauillac on a sausage.

Be surprised young Janie. I tell nothing but the truth.

Moggy

The old crate to the left was flown in by some woman or other.

I’ll be very surprised if any woman has flown that Spitfire since the war. That is TFC’s MkV EP120.

I take it, it’s yours on the right! 😀

Yup.

The old crate to the left was flown in by some woman or other.

Moggy

MODERN! 😡

Well I suppose compared to some it’s modern 😉

Moggy

I take it, it’s yours on the right! 😀

Janie, you’re on. Perhaps when the weather improves (?) you’d like to drop in to Top Farm and you could then have a go in the Airtourer after I’ve sampled the Chipmunk. The navigation shouldn’t be too hard should it?

I’m very slightly tempted to post you Tesco’s Value Sausages and Microchips to see what sort of a flight I’d get in return.

I wasn’t aware that such things exist. Are they to be found in the petfood section? 😉

I was on that list, but on the day it was not to be 😉

Why do annuals always take longer than promised?

Because you would take you business elsewhere if they were honest about how long it takes.

It is strange though how many 4-seaters arrive at fly-ins with just one or two on board so it isn’t just me.

Isn’t it strange how many people beg you to go flying with you then let you down when the time comes. I have twenty people on my written list of folk to take flying. I have an equally long list of reasons given why they could not make it when their turn came. Ozplane, if you see me starting up with an empty rear seat, just jump in. I’ll ask questions later! 🙂

Trinny: Your comment describes a wannabee paradise. What truly wonderful spirit.

However, I’m very slightly tempted to post you Tesco’s Value Sausages and Microchips to see what sort of a flight I’d get in return.

A lot of the smaller four-seaters are four-seaters in name only. Putting four fair-sized bodies in a PA28-140 with any sensible quantity of fuel and you will be dragging your sorry behind out of a bush near the end of the runway!

The Flyer forums are rather good at organising fly-ins in which qualified pilots fly student pilots and aspiring pilots into the venue in exchange for sausage and chips. That fills seats and transfers the thrill of flight to students for whom the learning process can sometimes seem like an insurmountable barrier.

Enough folk have heard about my flying that I have difficulty in filling the other seat in the Airtourer never mind another two in a Tri-Pacer. It is strange though how many 4-seaters arrive at fly-ins with just one or two on board so it isn’t just me.

Don’t you aspire to trade-up yourself?

Moggy