All very nice photos, but as Kabir said, the light catches that Virgin 747 just perfectly.

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Thanks for all the info Dean! 😮 Quite a lot there!

I think I will speak to my CO at Air Cadets, because he is a flight instructor at Andrewsfield airfield, which is one of the nearest to me. I will find out how much they charge for all the flying and instruction etc. If you said that it took you 2 years, is there any possibilty of starting it soon after I’m 16, so then I can go solo sometime during the year when I’m 17, and have my entire PPL by the age of 18?

I think that getting the flying and licenses is a lot cheaper on the continent aswell, I was looking at a company recently called ‘Aeromed’. The only thing is, you will probably have to pay a lot of the money you save into flights and accomodation.

Originally posted by wysiwyg

In these conditions you really have to watch the EGT guages to make sure you don’t cook the engine during the start.

My dad was telling me a while ago, how he had just towed an Easyjet out of the hangar, and a similar thing happened! It had been sitting in the hangar for some while, and the pilots had injected lots of fuel into the engine to get it started. It wouldn’t start, so he carried on injecting more and more fuel (sounds a bit stupid to me, maybe a trainee pilot :confused: ) but then when it did eventually start, there were 40ft flames coming out the back of the engine! It left scorch marks up half of the plane, and the fire brigade had to be called incase anything worse happened. Fortunately, the engines were shut down and nothing else caught alight, but back into the hangar the plane went, I bet Easyjet weren’t very happy!

Yes a very nice pic. Love those colours, and a very interesting plane to show them off.

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