Finally found and scanned my pic of the Air Atlantique Dak on the ramp at Luton, whilst I boarded a 737 to Gibralter for ATC summer camp in 1985

Found the attached photo when searching for my PPL, it shows the old AFT fleet during my spoking/clubbing/eating greasy burgers at the airport diner time during August 1986 😎 . G-MABI was the one that the CFI flew into the ground during his airshow routine practice. G-AVIR was the 172. For some reason we tended to prefer to fly G-BEYM, rather than ‘BI, I cannot recall why?

I flew into Hahn once….with Ryanair thinking I was going to Frankfurt…. :confused:

Don’t forget that you can spread the cost over a long period, it takes quite a while to build up your hours.

It is horses for courses really, most gliderists and microlighters seem to fall into 2 camps, those who want to be that one step closer to nature, and the others that revel in how cheaply they can get/remain airborne.

There is a middle way….do your NPPL then fly PFA type aircraft, Real flying for less!

If I think about the amount of money that I have spent on RC in the past 10 years, I could have easily got my PPL back and racked up quite a few hours by now!

I had to watch ‘What Women Want’ so Sky+ed it to watch over lunch today…there must be some sort of irony in there…… :confused:

I am a bit worried about the 980k near-misses in Hospitals

Does this refer to low-flying Air Ambulances?

Or is it a reference to the femininity of the Nurses in question?

we’ll have none of that kinda talk, young man!

Yes it was Pilot, the basic takeaways were:

Other than that if you bought your house at the right time, and the divorce won’t cost much, then dump the family, realise your assets and buy one! :dev2: