Jordan was complaining that I didn't have any shots of me....so here are some shots from today's lesson. Thanks to Liam for the photography (borrowing my old 400D )





Dodging cattletrucks



.mic

Nice one Mic. Looks like you've been thrown in at the deep end. It's obviously good experience but not sure I would want to mix it with the big boys. A small GA airport like Shoreham is busy enough for me.

I was thinking of the time you spend on the ground waiting for the "big boys" to land. As you will remember it's quite common to see a queue of trainers held up for 15 or 20 minutes at Shoreham. This is included in the time allotted to the lesson so you might only spend 40 minutes in the air but still pay for 60. Then if you're also held up at the end of the flight this is added to the cost. This is why I think the smaller the airfield the better where training is concerned.

flyboy 28 wrote on Nov 17^th, 2010 at 9:26pm:

It's the Health & Safety regulations. Those awful hi-vis tabards must be worn airside at most airfields in the UK. Even military aircrew have to wear them on front line airfields. Have you ever heard anything so ridiculous?

That's why I value places like Popham so much. A little bit of sanity in this crazy world.

As Doug said...the hi-viz is regulation....has to be worn on the apron. At least the flying school has fought their battle to keep their picnic area with a small wooden fence rather than the 8 ft wire monstrosity the airport owners wanted them to put up.

Liverpool isn't actually that busy airliner wise, but they do put off visiting GA traffic, so it's actually very rarely you have to hold. (though lunchtime is the worst for the big jets...had to wait to land behind 4 a couple of weeks ago.) Fortunately the school factors in the traffic to the costings so in your hour, 15 minutes are allocated taxying and holding time. If you go over, you don't pay any more. I've actually ended up getting about 40 free minutes in the last 6 lessons in which to practice orbits south of the Mersey

.mic