Next time you are stuck on a mountain, or hopelessly adrift at sea, a fixed wing aircraft and a helicopter suddenly appear. I bet you will be more pleased to see the helicopter than the plank. 😀 😎

Depends, on a mountain a Fiesler Storch would do nicely, worked for Mussolini, and hopelessly adrift a flying boat would do, faster than a helicopter.

Just remember,

‘No matter how good she looks right now, someone, somewhere is tired of putting up with her s***!’

Think you will find it was BEYM that was spun in, IIRC BGBI then replaced it and MABI was sold when the company closed.

Nice picture, takes me back a bit to when we were all parked on the Eastern Apron/under the tower before everyone was banished to the Western boundary.

Norwich hasn’t really changed much, still a very easy place for GA to fly from/to, what surprises me is the number of GA visitors who fly in and park at the terminal and then have to endure security checks going in and coming back out again. All they really have to do is park at the Western side which is outside of the secure area.

It also surprises me the number of visitors who pay full rate landings instead of saying training flight when phoning for PPR or on the initial radio call. If they did that they would be quite a good discount and as far as I’m aware unless you are a bona fide business flight all flights are counted as continuation training and qualify for discount.

When you fly over after getting your PPL back ask to park at Hangar 10 and come and meet everyone in the bar/restaurant/clubroom.

Tom Cruise is a mighty fine person. I reckon most of the animosity from you guys here is due to the fact that he gets to make babies with Katie Holmes and not you.

😮 I don’t think anyone here wants to make babies with Tom Cruise

I can’t believe you guys would consider Robert deNiro as irritating. If you compare him to that raving lunatic Tom Cruise, you would be comparing oranges and peanuts!

yes but which is the orange and which is the peanut?

As well as getting my PPL in the summer of ’86 at Norwich, I was also thrown out of a nightclub for the first time

We only bother with the night clubs where the bouncers throw you in!

Looks like not much has changed since I was at Norwich in ’86……

We’ve just refined our social graces……..

If we are having a Fly-In then an event like Abingdon is not ideal.

I’d suggest we choose the location based on one of the free landings vouchers?

Moggy

Just out of interest why one with the free landing Mog? I’m always intrigued that PPL’s will pay a fortune to fly for an hour or more to say, North Weald, Headcorn or some such place for a ‘£200 burger’ but will cry foul when asked to pay between £5 and £8 at places like Norwich or a bit more at Southend for a landing fee. What do people moan about the difference between 2 hours aircraft rental or running costs (if privately owned) and the same plus £5?