Flying Lessons

[MarillionFan]

I decided to take up flying this week and headed off to Blackbush for my first time behind the props. I'm hooked & have decided to take some more lessons, who knows I may get my license and be flying that next BA flight to the US.


Who on here has got the license? How long did it take, any advice?

[TheFaQQer]

Flying is a doddle.

Taking off and landing are the tricky bits.

Someone I worked with years ago was going to give up IT because he'd paid his way through a commercial pilots licence.

It obviously didn't work out because a couple of years later he was flying himself to the Paris every week for a project out there.

[stek]

Think it's 'licence' actually...

[vwdan]

It's something I very much intend to get back into one day - if you're serious about getting qualified my advice is to hit the books hard and early. I never found physically flying to be particularly difficult (At normal doing circuits level), but the ground school bits get very heavy.

[stek]

Serious question - can u do it with corrective vision? I have one eye out - one is long sighted the other is short - no massively so but but mean I can only really see out of one eye...

[MarillionFan]

Serious question - can u do it with corrective vision? I have one eye out - one is long sighted the other is short - no massively so but but mean I can only really see out of one eye...

I have no idea you speccy twat, I've got perfect vision.

[stek]

I have no idea you speccy twat, I've got perfect vision.

How you manage that with your frequent masturbation you lucky sod!!?

Googling reckons I can fly with my specs on! Just not for USAAF, but that doesn't matter since they kill more friends than foes....

[MarillionFan]

How you manage that with your frequent masturbation you lucky sod!!?

Googling reckons I can fly with my specs on! Just not for USAAF, but that doesn't matter since they kill more friends than foes....

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Look a bit pricey on their own, but a friend has a plane share. I decided earlier this week when I was in the bookies, that by the amount of money I've spent in their I could have bought a fricking plane and had 1000 lessons. So I decided to head off to the airport instead.


Doesn't cliphead have a license?

[stek]

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Look a bit pricey on their own, but a friend has a plane share. I decided earlier this week when I was in the bookies, that by the amount of money I've spent in their I could have bought a fricking plane and had 1000 lessons. So I decided to head off to the airport instead.


Doesn't cliphead have a license?

Leeds Bradford prices here, doable, not sure if it's worth it, could finance a music studio for similar, and get more personal benefit...

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[mudskipper]

Had one flying lesson at Blackbushe (won it in a raffle). Flew to Basingstoke and back. It definitely looks better from the air. Felt very airsick, so was glad when we touched down.