Filth, Filth, Filth!!

Must be about time for a new one.

It seems to me the best thing is to leave this for a month or two, and as then as spring beckons and cabin-fever abates, people will perhaps be a little less crabby.

In, say, early April, the days will be longer, the weather more promising, and we will all be itching to go flying!

It was a crumby system, and in some aircraft, next to useless.

I recall an accident report (fatal) about a low hours PPL who became lost as darkness fell, and the D+D controller who attempted to help him observed that the pilot did not seem to understand his instructions. A fellow pilot, familiar with the accident aircraft, was pretty certain that infact the instructions were virtually inaudible.

Crikey, I wasn’t serious you know!

I fly an ever-so-humble J-3, which is pretty much the cheapest way for 2 people to get in the air, apart from microlights, and I have tried them too. I have plenty of ‘spam’ time under my belt, and have enjoyed it all.

Name the venue, and I will be there like a (slow) shot.

There used to be a peculiar self-propelled bowser device at North Weald-don’t know if it is still there. It has probably fallen foul of some Health/Safety regulation.

NX611 of course.
Next.

Scotavia, your caution does you great credit, but on the day that your ‘driver’ screws up his checks, taxis (briefly) with the fuel still off, uses the radio like a half-wit, attempts to line up on the wrong runway etc etc, would you actually unstrap and de-plane, in the middle of the airfield ? A very difficult decision to actually follow through.

Anyway, if that sort of stuff troubles you, you’d hate flying with me.