Wish I Was Flying

Quote of the day

jon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:39:36 +0000

“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”

Leonardo da Vinci

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Weather

jon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:40:13 +0000

I’ve been using this weather forecast site for a while now, and thought I’d post a link to their weather broadcasts.

Let me know what you think, and if it is of any use to you!

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Quote of the day

jon — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:21:02 +0000

“It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.”

Wilbur Wright

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Plane crashes into VIP lounge

jon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:10:39 +0000

Browsing the web today, I came across this report on the BBC news website about a plane which experienced technical difficulties and had to return to Kigali Airport in Rwanda.

The plane turned back to the airport, but crashed after making an emergency landing.

Investigations are currently under way to determine what went wrong

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Lost in cloud?

jon — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:57:54 +0000

Lost in Cloud

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Planning a Scottish Trip (part 2)

jon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:16:09 +0000

In case you read my first post “Planning a Scottish Trip (part 1)” and wondered what had happened, well … the flight went ahead, and planning ended up being quite simple …

In the end, we needed to stop off in the Isle of Man to see my parents, so the planning became quite “simple”

In the end we went EGLD HEN DCT OX DCT WBA DCT HAW DCT IOM EGNS

Then EGNS MIKEL BLACA TRN TABIT VFR DCT Broadford (EG18?)

The flight there was pretty uneventful

The return trip was a little more fun … we hit some unexpected icing, which thanks to the TKS anti ice protection with the Cirrus SR22, and an expedited climb to FL095 meant that we were soon on top of the cloud and enjoying the glorious sunshine.

Considering the forecast was CAVOK and 9999 I was initially a little concerned that the cloud seemed so prevalent, and so low (FL040 through to FL075 was thick, and there was still some cloud up to FL090) however quite amazingly, as we crossed the FIR from “Scottish” into “London” the sky cleared, and visibility was awesome!

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Honduras close shave

jon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:37:35 +0000

Following on from the “what went wrong” video earlier, here is another interesting approach this time into Honduras

Kudos to Martijn Moret for finding this one!

This is how it should have been done

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Tweeting on a Jet Plane

jon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:05:59 +0000

The latest response to NW188

Tweeting on a Jet Plane

And as one knee jerk reaction after another is raised in the US Senate, we appear to be heading towards recommendations that electronics are no longer allowed in the cockpit. This could put an end to electronic charts and the return to 10,000 page paper manuals which take minutes to search instead of seconds

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Special VFR

jon — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:47:46 +0000

The following video clip is of a landing into a French airfield (LFBH) under “special VFR”

Whether or not this was legal is left to the observer …. personally I wouldn’t want to attempt this without a full IR (or at least an IMC within UK airspace).

Sadly, this is the sort of weather we get in the UK a lot … with EASA talking of binning the IMC rating, and replacing it with something that has even less teeth, I suspect we may see more pilots attempting this “SVFR” without the training that the IMC or a full IR offers.

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Inadvertent flight into IMC

jon — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:38:33 +0000

Max Trescott posts about a flight into inadvertent IMC, and why it is so important to know what you’re doing, to plan your flight, and to know your MSA!

Max Trescott’s Blog

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