This Old Fart, had his 1st Flying Lesson today

Your a very lucky man!

I do envy you that flying experience, good luck and may you have many more!

Most important thing was, this young lady has just passed her Commercial Pilots Licence, and will shortly be flying a large multi-engine jet. A Jumbo, what a girl....

If you want to brouse all the pics I managed to get here is the directions to them on Photobucket.

You have been invited to visit a photo album

The read only password to view this album is: uktrek

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Fantastic!!! Does it get any better? Great work.

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Great i am glad!

Congrats....it sounds really fun ❗ ❗ 😉

Thanks for sharing the pics 🍻

As a once in a lifetime experience, well I don't think there is much to surpass it. I'm not going for a licence at my age, I don't feel capable of getting my head round all the rules and regs, etc., that you are required to know. But only allowed to have two flights as a trainee, before enrolling as an official pupil. So I have to enrol as a pupil, then I can fly whenever I can afford or want, but of course have to be supervised.

I don't care, it's wonderful, at some moments it feels as though you are suspended in time, no real feeling of speed, but a journey by road that takes seemingly forever, with present day traffic, is completed almost in the wink of your eye.

Compared with a sim, well a sim is better than nothing, but no comparison to the real McCoy.

My first taster was last year in a Tiger Moth, if viewers have found my photobucket posting OK, I'll get a few pics up on Photobucket of the TM, and post the URL.

Excellent Kentel, I am glad you enjoyed it - I haven't seen you about on the boards lately...

Do you find simming helps you fly for real? I have only done it once but find knowing the basics already gives an advantage even if you don't get the feel from simming.

Thanks for the pics Ken 👍
I too have had the pleasure of flying lessons and can only say get up there as often as you can(I know ££££ 🙄 )
Keep us posted 😉

Insight wrote:

Excellent Kentel, I am glad you enjoyed it - I haven't seen you about on the boards lately...

Do you find simming helps you fly for real? I have only done it once but find knowing the basics already gives an advantage even if you don't get the feel from simming.

Hi Insight, I've been around, but not always posting, sometimes just lurking. 😂 😂 And trying to improve the running of my Computer, plus my new build is slowly progressing.

Does simming help, quick answer, definitely yes! But mainly in the education of what this button, or that knob does. The actual feel, well there is very little to compare, in the actual flying experience, your plane has a life of it's own, you can feel it's response to your every movement of the controls. This is the big thing, you FEEL the reactions, not just see them. It's a bit like riding a horse, or a M/C, you control it by the reactions of your bum. If you have a chance, don't think twice, take it!

It is absolutely marvelous. I was hit last year by a training flight in the Tiger Moth at Duxford, must say that was unbelievable as well.

I shall try to put my collection of photos from both events on Photobucket, and those interested can have a 'birds' eye view.

OK, as promised, my Tiger Moth Flight, plus a look around Duxford, Aug 8th. 2005.

The read only password to view this album is: uktrek

Suggest you enter password "uktrek" on first page, on second page select "Tiger Moth Flight", third page top right, select "all", then slideshow. of course if you are aware of Photobucket usage, do your own thing!

Enjoy, I know I did!

Xtra, take off video

Sorry about the vocals on sound track, our young son, and his wife.

Bit more, from Google Earth, quite accurate.