Don’t forget it’s 500′ away from vessels, structures and people, which means in theory as long as you’re at 500′ when over the dams, easily done with a pull up, you can fly down the reservoir at whatever height you like, so long as there are no canoeists etc on it.

It would be p*** p*** airmanship but it wouldn’t be illegal.

Mind you, is a reservoir classed as a ‘structure’?

Just about all comedy is poking fun at someone else

Quite right, I get a bit naffed off with sections of the community that are ‘offended’ by certain things. I’m offended every day by poor drivers, jobsworths (usually in a public sector role) etc. I deal with it. It’s called being a grown up.

At 56 years old I get regaled regularly with the ‘things were better in our day’ brigade. Truth is if we had Playstations et al back in our day we would have used them. We just didn’t have them or any conception of them.

I look at my 6 year old grandson now and wonder if when he gets to my age whether he will be saying ‘Of course we just had our Nintendo DS’s and You Tube, we were a lot happier though.’

I remember my Dad telling me about the box of oranges he and his 7 brothers and sisters got one year for Christmas back in the 30’s and how over the Moon they were.

I think when you look back to films made in 60s thru to the 80s im sure many could be flyable with tinkering. but the old days like Southend HAM where a battery and fuel along with the likes of pilots no longer with us you could of seen Lincoln. Beverley and half a dozen others head into the blue.
As said earlier CAA will if they get a chance have you taken off to the padded room gor even asking.
Mind you I have often thought the same. now where is my straight jacket ?

There’s slightly more to it than that Trolley. Just because it looks like an aircraft doesn’t mean that it is an aircraft in the literal sense. Most of them look like aircraft but have as much chance of flying as I have of laying an egg.

Crikey, not seen one of those before, what a great looking a/c.

Just as light relief from the flame war, reading about the landing of the Satyr in the telephone wires reminds me of my gliding days when a guy at my club span in from low level and nosed into a large number of telephone wires (does anyone remember the masses of wires that you used to see on telegraph poles?) He got out without a scratch. The glider was rebuilt but always flew left wing low thereafter.

Does anyone think that Satyr was a bit of a weird name for an a/c given it’s origins?

Took some goodies for the Lightning Pres Group, very impressed with the fantastic condition of their a/c. And weren’t we lucky with the weather!! My first time there, would have liked a couple more food/drink stalls, other than that, extremely impressed with the hundreds of thousands of quids worth of camera gear I saw!