The CAA can suspend your license any time they want if they have the grounds to do so. And the Government can close the airspace any time they want, as they did post 11/9. The Human ‘Rights’ Act doesn’t even figure…

I do sometimes wonder whether these forums are wholly populated by Daily Mail readers……..:rolleyes:

Yup! A pilot’s licence is not a right but a pri…

Well you get the idea. None of us really have any rights at all that the government could not take away under some alleged state security reason or other.

Then again, anyone who would think it a good idea to fly a single-engine aircraft over a whole bunch of peeps isn’t showing correct airmanship. So they would probably deserve to lose their ticket to fly. Now, were someone to fly a paramotor (i.e. a paraglider with a 250cc engine on the back of the harness) into the stadium when the games are taking place there is not a damned thing anyone could do really. except lock the pilot up after the event. Paramotor pilots don’t have a CAA licence, and are not required to have one. So the CAA has little power over them, only the criminal court.

You can bet if someone did that (like the Buckingham Palace landing by that Aussie pilot) the government would get really heavy in court though.

In Wiltshire our drought is officially over but the hosepipe ban remains in force.

I think we need to announce a War on Drought. Of course we can’t do that for a decade as we have no carriers or naval planes. So not now, but soooon!

Nice pics! I love cats. 🙂

sarah

The Islamic fundimentalist terrorists have achieved one of their main goals, which is to bring down our freedoms. I don’t believe they will ever achieve their main goal of bringing their own brand of extreme religious fascism to the west.

So we are all under scrutiny and our free movement and private communications are being lost. Even freedom of speech has been lost, at least here in the UK. It is now an offence to speak our minds about religion in a public place – political correctness has become the law here.

So I understand why you say the terrorists have won. These religious zealots have certainly brought oppression to the west.

Pilots have been flying into mountains in bad weather since the earliest days of comercial aviation. It is sad that with modern gps positioning and terrain detection gear it still happens. But unless this was on an approach to a runway I suspect there is more to this story to explain why they chose to descend below the mda into such frightening terrain. I suspect they may have had some technical problem which forced their hands, because experienced pilots wouldn’t do such a mad thing given half a chance to avoid it.

Here are a couple of USAF bomber crew books in Epub format that I found interesting.

We Were Crewdogs is about being a USAF-SAC B52 crewmember.

The Wild Blue is about flying a B24 Liberator pilot in WW2

And here is the iconic USAF classic:

Fate is the Hunter by Ernest K. Gann

Good shot, Lee!…That’s where I photographed it, too between Field’s and Air-India on LHR South
http://www.airliners.net/photo/Untitled-(Playboy-Enterprises)/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-9-32/1086217/&sid=4cb66adf113c4e533acd9d7ddcf0c08d

Was the 1970 visit the first or did it visit in 1969?

Key forum’s been here before with a colour photo and links….
http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?t=79564&highlight=playboy+DC-9

This was one of the first CIA flights to the Middle East taking bunny rabbits to a place where they could be ticked almost to death in a vain attempt to find where the easter eggs were hidden. The bunnies were later transfered to Guantanimo Bay for cooking. 🙂 It was indeed a black day for bunnies everywhere! Happy Easter, folks! (And I mean that most irreligiously.)