FLYING

[CANV]

sorry not drugs or booze related... has anyone ever learnt how to fly..?
is it a great laugh or one of those things that sounds brilliant but ten mins after your up there your bored sh*tless..

 

[southend4ever]

i've just flown back from cuba, it isnt the best when you are tall and you sit in the middle

 

[Guest]

I have, but my arms ached afterwards.

 

[* ORM *]

Peter Pan ?

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Quote[/b] (CANV @ Jan. 20 2005,15:39)]has anyone ever learnt how to fly..?

Yep, we had compulsory Corps / OTC at school, and I was in the RAF section of it.

Aerobatics was feckin' awesome, did that a couple of times. You always flew with some pretty senior old chaps... I was told one day that I was flying with an Air Commodore (effectively 4th tier from the top; 5th tier if you count Phil the Greek, who is Marshall of the RAF). In other words, pretty serious "top brass".

Anyhow, I climbed into the plane (a Chipmunk, excellent laugh, easier to fly than driving a car), got myself strapped in, plugged into the intercom, looked up at the seat in front - in Chipmunks, the pilot sits in the front, and the air cadet sits behind - and all I could see was a massive handle-bar moustache extending either side of the seat.

"Good afternoon, Sir!", I said, somewhat nervously.

"Good afternoon, old boy!" replied the cheeriest, most avuncular voice you've ever heard... "And do call me Bunty!"

Needless to say, I didn't have the cojones to call him Bunty (I was only 16 at the time), but we had a superb afternoon of aerobatics... and, as I discovered, it's even possible to pull 5.5G in a Chipmunk when you're doing a loop-the-loop at 140 knots...

Absolutely superb. Can't fly or land a plane, and have only about 4-5 hours air experience in total (i.e. total bloody novice), but learnt how to:

*loop-the-loop
*barrel rool
*stall-turn (feckin' scary)

To compare with your experience, CANV, I did also go up in a motorized glider... which was largely quite uneventful - but I still bloody loved it.

Matt

 

[The Artful Shrimper]

I loved the story (TRUE) of the chinese kid who tried to hijack/steal a concorde because he wanted to fly it under SanFransisco bridge...because he did it in Microsoft Simulator.

I had a Harrier simulator and that was good.

 

[Its grim up north!]

Yep, had a couple of flying lessons and have flown a glider too!

It's all good fun.

 

[MrB]

Quote[/b] (Matt the Shrimp @ Jan. 20 2005,16:06)]"Good afternoon, Sir!", I said, somewhat nervously.

"Good afternoon, old boy!" replied the cheeriest, most avuncular voice you've ever heard... "And do call me Bunty!"

So basically you fell into a Biggles book.