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Learning to Fly

Days Out

Fly-ins, shared ride-alongs and other trips.

Backseat to Dunkeswell
Benet's NavEx Pembrey-Devon
In which I get to ride as passenger on someone else's navigation practice and enjoy some 'real' flying.

Dawn 'till Dusk (and then some)
Flyer Forum Student Fly-In. Old Buckenham

In which I go I go 170odd miles by train in order to go about the same by plane, meet lots of people with strange names and encounter the Biggest Burger Known to Aviation.

Day Tripper
Flyer Forum Fly-In. Bembridge

In which I take a longer walk for a longer flight to a pleasant seaside pub and some interesting weather.

The Other End of the Ether
Flyer/UKGA visit to Cardiff LARS/ATC

In which I visit the people who talk to aeroplanes.

Thinking About Safey
CAA Safety Evening, Swansea

In which I learn some valuable 'how not to get yourself killed tips'.

Flyer Forum Wolf's Lair & Berlin
In which I spend Mayday bank holiday fitting across the continent and back.

31 Students and Spitfires
In which I try my hand at navigation to join very many other students and pilot to eat lots and look at pretty aeroplanes. And in which I discover what the scenery looks like upside down.

Day Out at the AAIB with UKGA
(Offsite Link)

Out to the Countryside
In which I get another ride in a lovely aeroplane to a lovely airfield courtesy of a Flyer Forum Student FlyIn.

Frozen Forumites
In which I attend another "Take a Student Flying" fly-in with the usual suspects from the Flyer Magazine Forum, and am impressed by the detours people will make to fetch a Leia!

58 Window Shopping
In which I get another go in a pretty aeroplane, look at lots of other pretty aeroplanes and chat with assorted pre--erm--personable pilots!


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