A winters day over Bodmin airfield. Ten minutes later the snow came down on the runway!
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A Grand Day Out
A bright day in February [one of the very rare ones, this winter!]. The club aircraft [known to us all as Deo] has been away all winter for a respray and a new engine and we’ve been using a hired plane. Now our own aircraft was ready and we had to return the hired one …
A Winter’s Tale
Last Friday I took a slightly nervous flyer for a flight around Cornwall. It was a classic winter’s day: bright and cold with a few clouds sailing along serenely at 3000 feet on the brisk northerly wind. The wind was a bit of a problem actually, because we don’t have a northerly runway at Perranporth! …
Unexpected weather …
A lovely couple had booked a trial lesson to celebrate a special anniversary. They wanted to look at the beautiful Cornish coast, and Jane had always wanted to fly a plane, but things didn’t quite go as planned! Here’s what happened. Derek and Jane arrived at the airfield in good time. The weather forecast was …
Teaching students about aircraft
A Trial Lesson?
So: you’ve plucked up the courage [or perhaps been presented with it as a gift!] and booked a Trial Lesson at your local flying school. Well done! Sometimes called an ‘introductory lesson’ or an ‘air experience flight’, a trial lesson is your first step on the journey towards obtaining a Private Pilot’s Licence. It is …
Why learn to fly a plane?
There are lots of reasons: a career, for fun, because you always wanted to: everyone has their own reasons. Here are mine! Everyone needs a strategy to de-stress. Work is hard (& seems to be getting harder!). Taking the worries and problems of each day home is no fun at all. Personally, I need a …