nightfox

it should be on the plastic sleeve that the magazine comes in near your address, failing that just drop Key publishing a line, their number will be in the Code Of Conduct stickied at the top of this forum or it will be in your magazine at the front

Rgds

Dean

I don’t need to lighten up, I just don’t see why all the photos of the week and what have you are years late… :rolleyes:

And the big deal is? Steve obviously did not know this photo had been posted before, and even if it’s 50 years old what difference does that make to anything at all? people are just too picky, pick pick pick, gees :rolleyes: have you not got better things to do with your time?

hargi

apologies for the delay in getting the VOR explained, I’ll do my best over the weekend ok, just been a tad busy with exams etc

Ok, sit tight and see what Paypal & eBay come up with, generally the first response of eBay is to tell you to try to resolve this personally, it may be worth emailing ebay back telling them you cannot contact this person direct and that they need to intervene

D.

Irfan

First thing first is to contact ebay and explain the situation to them, what I don’t understand is how can they reverse the decision to pay you through paypal? once they have paid it is instant and they can’t touch it (generally), get in contact with paypal as well, because if they have withdrawn payment then a statement from them specifying this will back up your case, make sure you document everything, if you have posted it recorded delivery you should have a signiture from the Royal Mail as well, you will need this as evidence, next thing to do is try talking to the person involved, generally there is a civil way to sort things like this out, if he flatly refuses to discuss this with you then document this also, just make sure you keep a record of everything. If paypal confirms he “has his money back” then he really hasn’t got a leg to stand on.
Get on to Ebay & Paypal a.s.a.p, do not delay

Rgds

Dean

Hey Hargi22,

Anyway the trim problem I used to share with you, on your Cessna panel I think on the right somewhere should be a trim indicator. To fly straight and level, the little bar should be a little underneath centre. The further down the bar is, the steeper you will climb, but if the bar is above center you will descend, further up and the steep your descent will be. Trust me it took me ages to figure it out so you are not alone.
Regards

AJ

Not strictly true, the trim tab is used to relieve the control column of any back or forward pressure ONCE you have set up in your required flight condition, the trim can come in various forms, generally trim tabs as stated, these are small mini elevators on the elevator that direct the airflow accordingly, or you can have an elevator that is the trim tab as well, i.e. the whole elevator moves to trim the aircraft out.
As for the positioning this is all dependant on weight, aircraft configuration, density altitude and speed, a couple of other factors as well, so the “just below centre” position is only specific to one type of flight condition, what you need to do is this, set your power, set your attitude, then trim out the pressure on the control column, this applies in a longish climb as well, set climb power, set climb attitude and trim out the pressure, so remember for straight & level flight, climbs & descents it’s P.A.T , power – attitude – trim. For levelling off from a climb you use A.P.T, that’s attitude – power – trim, so set level attitude, set power and trim the aircraft.

Hope this helps

As reccomended by Deano i’ll put this here:

Just incase others may benefit.

Wozza, how old are you first? if you have not left school yet let me say that you need to get yourself a good education, that is No 1 priority, forget your airline career if you are still 15 etc, I would suggest you try and get to University and get a degree, you don’t need one to fly planes BUT come the interview stage if you were up against someone who hasn’t got one it’s “highly likely” they will call you instead, basically you need to do something which makes you stand out from the crowd.
In the meantime I would suggest you stay living with your parents, this is the cheapest option open to anyone, if I had my time again I would not have moved out until I gained my fATPL CPL/IR etc.
As for funding, well the first part is as mentioned above, stay living at your olds’ place if they’ll have you, in the meantime (even if you are at school) I would suggest you save everything you earn, get a part time job, and save, this is the hardest part with one being so young is saving, I know, I was young once (I know that’s hard to believe 🙂 ), if you don’t go to Uni then try and get a well paid job, all this is pretty obvious but you have to be 100% committed from the off.
You then need to ask yourself if you want to go integrated, or modular, we’ve already discussed the pricings above, integrated will cost alot more but the up side is that you “could” get put forward for the airlines straight after training, so there is no need for sponsorship, if you go Modular then you can continue to work and earn money to pay for your flying, alternatively, you can get yourself off to your local flying club, and ask if they will exchange work for flying hrs towards your PPL, just be carefull because when you start training you will need to be in a position to carry on the training and then stay current afterwards, this is where alot of PPLs let their licenses lapse, they think that they have the 6k or so to get the license but then it costs a whole lot more to keep current post PPL.
HSBC do, or used to do a career development loan, go into your local HSBC branch and ask if they still do, if they do then it may be worth opening an account with them, even now, at least you will be using them when the time comes to applying for the loan, if they don’t do this loan then I think Barclay’s do it, check it out.
Alternatively, airline sponsorship could be a route to explore, EasyJet do one through CTC called their wings program, check it out here CTC Wings , also FlyBe do one called FlyBe MAPS, check it out here FTE , there are various schemes around at the moment, some closed for this year, I suggest buying copies of Flight International & Today’s Pilot etc and check out the back pages for news on sponsorships, my flying club are paying for 2 students to go from ab-initio straight through to fATPL CPL/IR, all they have to do is work for the company and they pay them via the scheme which is fantastic.
First & foremost Wozz get that education, even if you do not go to Uni make sure you get some good A levels at the very least, all the sponsorship courses will expect you to have at least A levels, again as for funding, try and get the career development loan, if not then you will have to get a job which enables you to pay for it as you go, but the modular route.

Good luck

Dean