You will hear good and bad things about most schools from different people with an axe to grind in one way or another so feedback from people you don’t know on a forum such as this should not guide you to the exclusion of other checks you might make.

I think that it is fair to say that OFT does not have the greatest reputation at Kissimmee, based on both my own personal contact with them, and on the public-domain documentation surrounding recent accidents involving their aircraft.

My personal view is that you should look elsewhere.

Terrain around the dam areas is tough enough in daylight. Much harder at night during a partial blackout and at low level.

It is not so much that there is any particularly high ground, rather that the winding nature of the water obstructs line of sight onto the dams both for bombers and would-be photographers.

The photos were taken by a good friend from the RHS of my light single around 18 months ago. The entire photoset can be seen here:

http://www.stevelevien.com/colditz1.htm

Thanks DBW. We enjoyed Norwich a lot and will definitely be back. Knowing that we can get more reasonable landing fees will be the icing on the cake.

Young man. I trust that I don’t come across as Mouse-like. I am puzzled by the term “oversized Giant” though.

I just think it would be nice for Simon to contribute rather more than an occasional advert, thinly disguised as a not-particularly-aviation-specific weather outlook.

I shouldn’t need to phone him up to express that view.