Absolutely superb Snapper !!

Originally posted by Moggy C
Ahem.

Not wishing to throw wet blankets about with abandon, can I just mention that, attractive as the figures may at first look, money is the worst reason for training overseas?

Why you should train overseas:

1) The need to quickly progress if headed for a commercial licence
2) If you find it hard to take irregular breaks from employment and domestic duties for an elongated course in the UK
3) If it’s part of a deal with a ‘significant other’ who gets to lounge on the beach somewhere nice whilst you are playing at aviation

So why not money?

On the face of it you are saving over 2,000 quid. Has to be a good idea if money is tight huh?

Nope. 🙁

Because you don’t stop flying once you’ve ‘got’ your ppl.

Student 1 goes to the US, or SA, or Jersey, or wherever.

In four weeks flies 50 hours for about 3,000 quid.

Then they come home. Once home they fly an average of one hour per week in a rented aircraft. Say 100 quid a time. That’s 48 hours in the remainder of the year. 4,800 quid. Total spend in their first year of flying? About 7,800 quid

Student 2 stays in the UK

Over the first year he manages to fly an average of once a week so flies fiftytwo hours and qualifies right at the end of that time or near enough.

Total spend in his first year of flying? About 5,200 quid

So though Student 1 has gained more and varied experience, he’s also paid for it to the tune of nearly three thousand pounds extra. Not a good choice if you are on a restricted budget.

Make sure you head overseas for the right reason, because being short of money isn’t one of them.

Moggy

What if student A flies to the US because it is a quick , intense and cheap option – the weather is so much better – you are nearly guaranteed good flying weather – then coming home and using the money he has saved to pay the insurance for the Cessna 152 he has bought .

What is the end to this story then ???? , somebody chainsaw a lump out of the mainspar to fit a 10 disk CD changer ???

Its the DoX glide bomb , launched from He111s at ships and the occasional land target – I think it was one of these babies which took out the Roma .

Sounds good , do they have to be deactivated ?:) 🙂 🙂 🙂

You mean we’re going down the American route ????????????

Re: An Old Mate…

Originally posted by Andy in Beds
An old mate of mine (who’s still around) was an RAF gliding instructor.
During the operations around Arnhem in 1944 (Market-Garden) because there were a shortage of army glider pilots so he was detailed to take a Horsa in.
Not on the initial landing on the Sunday morning but one of the later ones.
Anyway on the way to the LZ the Halifax tug was shot down.
He said it was the quickest cast-off in history.
The glider landed safely just within an area where allied ground troops were situated but he’s pretty sure all onboard the Hallibag were killed.
I’m currently trying to get him to put his experiences down on paper.
Before this he was with Coastal Command on Sunderlands and his RAF career ended when he was badly injured when a Warwick he was onboard crashed taking off in the Azores.
He recovered eventually and returned home to lead a ‘normal life’.
Where do we get such men as these?

I heard almost exactly the same story from a chap who used to frequent one of my dads shops . After crashing his glider he was severely injured and sent home , he was patched up and sent out east – just in time to be captured by some Japs ( who he would NOT talk about ) , I was in the process of getting him to talk so I could get all of his story on tape , unfortunately Bill pased away about 4 months ago. Quiet warriors , all of them