Aviation Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / December 2005

I aheva family so large that I require a six seater to move us around.
Trouble is, I can't think of many that fall into the "light" category where
"light" means "sensible"!  I.e. I'm not into buying time on a King Air,
pockets too short. I can think of the Cherokee six, but it's ...

Love it, hate it, old technology, whatever....
How many aircraft TODAY (including military) regularly fly at Mach 2?
Even military (unless active service) have many, many hours maintenance
before they are allowed to go Mach 2.

Long final is between 4 and 8 nautical miles from the runway threshold.
What are the distances for Short Final?
Thanks

Anyone seen that daft programme?
They raced the two from some place in N Italy to London. The car won.
The whole thing was rigged, of course. Stupidly, they flew around the
Alps instead of straight over them (no problem for a C182; I've done

As a PPL, I only need a dozen or so IFR cards for the airports that I need
to fly to along the Mediterranean littoral. However, the only option that I
can find on the Jeppesen site is to buy a pack for the whole of Europe at a
very expensive price. Is there a bespoke service ...

Well my straw wasn't THAT short. I had an early ski flight  this morning but
I'm home safe and sound now.
As I was doing the walk round this morning the sun was shining, it was dry
bright and clear. I thought to myself, what a truly fantastic job. And then

For those of you not yet aware, the "Sad News" article above relates to
Graham Wilson, who I expect many of us will recall as graham@dircon.co.uk
who regularly posted to this group.
It is kinda fitting that his last post to this group was about the Red

Did anyone see this study in gullibility tonight? Brilliant stuff. The best
bit for me was when one of the actor-cadets asked about the tenth new
planet, he was basically asking why the newcomer wasn't included in the
cadet's training. he said "what about  X [1] at the end?"

Not sure if this is the right group or someone can post a link but
here is my question.
We are travelling to Amsterdam but our connecting flight to Atlanta
isn't untill the following day and some people have mentioned "flight

HEATHROW AIRPORT IS EXPERIENCING REDUCED DELIVERIES OF JET FUEL.
 IN ORDER TO ENSURE CONTINUANCE OF OPS, THE ARRANGEMENTS AGREED IN THE
 DRAFT HEATHROW FUEL CONTINGENCY PLAN (HFCP) WILL APPLY WIE.
 THERE ARE SOME RESERVE STOCKS, BUT THESE NEED TO BE BEST USED IN

An airliner went over Stevenage last night (about 11pm) on its
way in to Luton.
It was flashing its landing lights (left on/right off ; right on/left off)
... any idea why? I've never seen it before. The next one over (a couple

A little straw-poll of opinion, if I may, which people would recommend out
of a PA38 Tomahawk and Cessna 150 for someone starting a PPL with only a
little previous experience (all in a Grumman Cheetah).
The Cessna comes in at £6.50 an hour less than the PA38, which is a few

Yesterday a friend and I flew a group of members of Braughing Aviation
Society from Fowlmere to Duxford via the local villages within the
limitations of the fog - about a half hour sortie.  On the return I was
running very late and planned to fly direct from Duxford to Fowlmere, ...

I remember from ages ago that Sporty's used to do an electronic "e6b"
computer - basically an electronic "crap5" or "crap 1".  Does anyone use
one? Are they worth the money?
David