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How did you become a pilot?

Last post by FD2 « Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:44 pm
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by boing » Sat Apr 02, 2016 4:31 am
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In another thread somewhere someone asked for stories about how you got into aviation. In my case the summary of the whole adventure would be that it...

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Bob - I think K&C has left the building...
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Mon Jun 01, 2020 10:44 pm
Arigatou gozaimasu

Last post by tango15 « Thu May 07, 2020 8:40 pm
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by boing » Sat Apr 18, 2020 6:10 pm
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OK, here is another airline story. I've been a little reluctant to share this one because it seems to me a bit self-aggrandizing but I apologise for...

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...and native Australians I have been told, though I have no personal experience of this.
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Last post by tango15
Thu May 07, 2020 8:40 pm
That's why I called him Dick. (Part 1)

Last post by bob2s « Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:21 am
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by boing » Tue Dec 17, 2019 3:19 am

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Talked so much this time that I had to break the story into 2 parts.

Here I sit on the 16th of December 2019 in Dallas TX looking out over the hotel...

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A tale about our opposition in PNG around 68/69 One of their pilots was vertically descending into a small bush pad and struck a branch,landed ,shut...

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Last post by bob2s
Sun Apr 05, 2020 2:21 am
Lifeguard

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:03 am
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by boing » Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:56 am

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Us: Ground, Aline 123 Lifeguard taxi.
Ground: Aline 123 Lifeguard clear to taxi runway 1 Right, there is a Bline 767 waiting for you to pass in the...

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Some pilots are known for being legless.

All the better to stop or continue yaw while the hand does it business... :-bd

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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Wed Jan 15, 2020 1:03 am
The Rest is History

Last post by ian16th « Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:12 pm
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by boing » Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:32 pm
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I am going to claim this little story is an experience in aviation because of the time, place and events. Certainly the place and events are...

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the medical board at RAF Halton determined that I was red/green colour blind.

As a newly promoted Cpl at Lindholme, I had a National Service who...
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Last post by ian16th
Fri Dec 13, 2019 8:12 pm
Don't touch it until I say "Now"

Last post by ian16th « Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:01 am
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by boing » Sun Oct 20, 2019 4:47 pm
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Another story, does this man never know when to shut up !!!

At some time during your career as a Vulcan co-pilot you may have been invited to take...

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Hastings - a Handley Page ‘thought bubble’ emanating from a need to use a stockpile of Halifax bomber wings and engines left over from the war.

I...
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Last post by ian16th
Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:01 am
Cooperate and Graduate,

Last post by ExSp33db1rd « Sun Oct 20, 2019 7:32 am
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by boing » Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:47 am

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OK, it's a bit quiet around here so I will inflict another story on you, pardon its length but hopefully this is not just a story about one sim....

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Yes, courtesy of BOAC who paid for my initial instrument rating. Threw me in the Stratocruiser Sim. first - four engines ? Christ.

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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Sun Oct 20, 2019 7:32 am
OK Here's One

Last post by TheGreenGoblin « Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:15 pm
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by fin » Tue Jun 11, 2019 3:03 am
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This iconic aircraft, flying over an iconic Long Island landmark, has just done two shoulder height low passes over JFK during a busy afternoon.

The...

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It is in the forum usually referred to here as TOP or The Other Place.

That said, for me anyhow, it remains my 'go to' place when something like the...
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Last post by TheGreenGoblin
Thu Oct 03, 2019 5:15 pm
Sometimes you just can't win.....

Last post by reddo « Sun Aug 04, 2019 4:35 pm
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by CharlieOneSix » Sat Mar 16, 2019 4:13 pm

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On the ET accident thread Alison said about Sully that you can't be a hero if by your actions you are saving your own life - and I agree with that...

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Awesome pics Alison :D

Whilst not nearly as dramatic as the above events. This week was a *sh*t* fight. Revenue out of Amsterdam and the fecking APU...

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Last post by reddo
Sun Aug 04, 2019 4:35 pm
God-forsaken Places I Have Diverted Into thread

Last post by ian16th « Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:11 pm
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by Slasher » Tue Jul 09, 2019 11:19 pm

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I feel a God-forsaken Places I Have Diverted Into thread coming on.. ;)))

Window Rock, AZ would be my nomination.

Calcutta in my case yonks ago....

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Marham

Didn't have to divert, I lived there for over 4 years. In 2 sessions, the second time by choice!

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Last post by ian16th
Thu Jul 18, 2019 12:11 pm
If I Hadn't Seen It With My Own Eyes........

Last post by Cacophonix « Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:18 pm
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by Planepsycho » Wed Mar 06, 2019 4:04 pm

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On April 18, 2015, about 1452 central daylight time, a Mooney M20C, impacted terrain shortly after takeoff from runway 18, xxxxxxxxxx, Tennessee. The...

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Gravity even!

Caco

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Last post by Cacophonix
Wed Mar 06, 2019 6:18 pm
Airstrips; Interesting, Scary or otherwise

Last post by Magnus « Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:14 pm
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by Pinky the pilot » Sat Oct 15, 2016 11:34 am
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Somewhere on this site there are a number of posts re various 'interesting' airports/airstrips that members have flown into on a regular or one time...

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Dear God! As SLF, I thought Aspen was a bit exciting. Hats off to all you chaps and chapesses who routinely land on something about the length of my...
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Last post by Magnus
Fri Jan 18, 2019 5:14 pm
Destination? ummm

Last post by Capetonian « Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:06 pm
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by reddo » Mon Dec 31, 2018 6:48 pm

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The other day we departed not knowing exactly where we were going to land, other than it was Switzerland.
No, not as irresponsible as it sounds.
Our...

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There used to road signs in Kenya that said :
Slow down. Better late in this world than early in the next.

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Last post by Capetonian
Tue Jan 01, 2019 12:06 pm
Pilot afraid of flying

Last post by Cacophonix « Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:28 pm
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by ricardian » Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:34 am

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A pilot who developed a fear of flying

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Thread running here Ricardian. :-bd

Caco

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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Nov 13, 2018 1:28 pm
Flying the Kokoda Gap in PNG

Last post by ian16th « Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:04 am
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by Alisoncc » Thu Aug 16, 2018 1:30 am

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In the Aviation Incidents board made mention of flying in PNG, with a reference to the Kokoda Gap. The Gap was a valley betwen two bloody great...

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Malaysian prawns raised in water warmed by waste heat from the Wairakei geothermal power station.

They were well advertised as grown in geothermal...

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Last post by ian16th
Mon Oct 08, 2018 9:04 am
The Dreaded Black Hole Approach

Last post by FD2 « Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:13 am
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by CharlieOneSix » Sun Apr 15, 2018 1:24 pm

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Three videos - the first of a S76 helicopter night landing on a rig off Brazil. The video starts very close to the rig so you don't get anything like...

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The rig landing brings back a few memories CharlieOneSix! There were some tiny gas platforms in the Southern North Sea which were a real challenge at...

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Last post by FD2
Mon Aug 13, 2018 5:13 am
Con Air

Last post by wings folded « Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:10 pm
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by flynverted » Fri Aug 03, 2018 12:56 am

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Interesting story, pre 9-11...
Was working at KRIC & got a call on the wireless from me boss to meet him on the cargo ramp. I rocked up in my fuel...

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Con pilot was a gem.
He migrated here under a different nom-de-plume but was fading rapidly so didn't post a lot.

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Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:10 pm
Eric 'Winkle' Brown RIP

Last post by Woody « Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:02 pm
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by Boac » Sun Feb 21, 2016 7:12 pm

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Difficult to know where to place this post, to reflect on one of the greatest aviators of our time. Captain Eric Melrose Brown CBE DSC AFC has died...

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Watching a programme about the SR53/177 and how Lockheed bribed the German Luftwaffe to buy the F-104, Winkle appeared briefly saying that the F-104...

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Last post by Woody
Wed Jan 03, 2018 5:02 pm
B52s GTE-GOV-GTE

Last post by Stoneboat « Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:34 am
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by Slasher » Sat Feb 18, 2017 8:15 am

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Pinky will appreciate this. :D

During my NT years millions of yonks ago out of DRW I'd usually end up flogging the PA31 (Navajo) around the Top End....

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It was a last-minute night charter to Maningrida and back. Clear wx but darker than the inside of a black billygoat's arse in a coal mine. On...

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Last post by Stoneboat
Sun Apr 02, 2017 12:34 am
never trust bloody pilots....

Last post by Cacophonix « Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:35 am
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by dubbleyew eight » Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:10 pm

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once upon a time I was deputy head poobah of one of australia's interminable alphabet aviation groups.
each year we arranged a flyin get together....

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Instead of making a forced landing in some pasture he decided to just inch his way along the wing and get the chart from the rear before returning to...

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Last post by Cacophonix
Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:35 am
Are you really going to fly this aircraft Sir?

Last post by Boac « Mon Jan 23, 2017 11:29 am
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by boing » Mon Jun 06, 2016 6:45 am

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The scene is the Central Flying School of the Royal Air Force, at this time based at Royal Air Force Little Rissington as it had been since 1946,...

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On a detachment to Wattisham (29F Lightnings) I was assigned a Mk 3 to 'put on state'. They were all parked in the 'Embry follies' and it was...

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Last post by Boac
Mon Jan 23, 2017 11:29 am
SIN - HEL question...

Last post by Fliegenmong « Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:58 am
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by Fliegenmong » Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:04 pm

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Flew SIN-HEL recently...with FINNAIR, nice little airline been around forever, and in the jet age a safety record as good as QANTAS,,etc etc..

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Thanks Woderick...I might put it up over there...tks

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Last post by Fliegenmong
Tue Nov 15, 2016 1:58 am
I Learnt About Flying From That

Last post by ExSp33db1rd « Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:16 am
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by Sisemen » Tue Jan 26, 2016 10:52 am
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The RAF flight safety magazine used to have a regular article entitled “I learnt about flying from that” where readers were invited to tell their...

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Heard of an RAF Meteor pilot reported by the Pier Master of one south coast town - Eastbourne ? ( sorry, it's about 60 years ago that I was told )...
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Last post by ExSp33db1rd
Thu Oct 13, 2016 7:16 am
It was an interesting Flight

Last post by Slasher « Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:36 am
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by Pinky the pilot » Sat Apr 02, 2016 3:09 am
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I wrote this story of a flight in PNG for the newsletter of an Antique and Historical Arms Association of which I am a member. This is why some of...

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Only visit to NG was Moorehead on the Fly River coastal plain after the compulsory stop at Daru. Never been back as I was terrified when the locals...
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Last post by Slasher
Fri Oct 07, 2016 11:36 am
20 incredible vintage planes you can still fly in

Last post by Boac « Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:07 pm
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by boing » Wed Aug 10, 2016 3:11 am

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20 incredible vintage planes you can still fly in

When the commercial airliner that you have most time in (the 727) becomes one of the "20...

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"I'm lead, brief will be on Guard (243 emergency frequency), last one to 30,000 feet is a sissy." not forgetting "last one in the bar...

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Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:07 pm

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