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    Posted: 21 Nov 2017 at 8:48pm
2005 landing at Colmar (LFGA) as a passenger in a Navajo with only two greens lit up. ATC counted three down so the pilot decided to risk the landing. Scary, but I thought I handled it well, didn't get stressed, no worries, cool and calm. We landed safely and we hired a car and drove into town, super cool, calm and collected.
Ten years later I return to Colmar, by road. Outside the airport there is a 12 metre high replica of the Statue of Liberty. I didn't remember that from my previous visit. I asked how long it had been there? Since 2004, I was told. I might have thought that I was calm and collected, but I somehow manged to blank out a 12 metre high statue.
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Hi there.. the piper ZS-JUG you flew in 1977 crashed near greytown in August 1979 on route to Virginia airport from grand central ...would by any chance have any info on the incident or perhaps know where I could find some....my uncle was one of the fatalities that day....
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Hello ....the piper ZS-JUG you flew in 1977 ....it crashed in August 1979 just outside Greytown ...you wouldn't happen to have any info on this incident or know where I may find some ...my uncle was one of the fatalities that day
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Brandyne Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30 Aug 2017 at 9:39pm
Hello ....the piper ZS-JUG you flew in 1977 ....it crashed in August 1979 just outside Greytown ...you wouldn't happen to have any info on this incident or know where I may find some ...my uncle was one of the fatalities that day
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Originally posted by CaptCosslett CaptCosslett wrote:

If you keep your nose wheel on the line, your wing trips should be safe.



Depends how big the parking slot is, and how big the aeroplane is you're parking in it.
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Admitaly they were quite serious however they were within my firsrt 10 hours, and it gave everyone in the club house a good chuckle!

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If you keep your nose wheel on the line, your wing trips should be safe.

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Originally posted by Edward Longe Edward Longe wrote:


1) Not securing the fuel cap on the fuel tanks so we leaked feul.
 
Wow that's quite serious!!  My flying instructor would have given me a stern talking to if I did that!
 
 
Originally posted by Edward Longe Edward Longe wrote:

2) Nearly and I mean about inches from clipping wings with a stationary aircraft while attempting to park.
 
I hate parking it!  I've not (yet) had a problem with that, but I manage to clip the wing mirrors of my car when manouvering in tight spaces, so several feet long wings bolted on either side of me it won't be long before I do something!! Embarrassed Confused
 
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Not securing the fuel cap on the fuel tanks so we leaked feul.
2) Nearly and I mean about inches from clipping wings with a stationary aircraft while attempting to park.
Wow, there quite majour mistakes!  The worst thing I have ever done is forgot to pump the brakes, therefore the aircraft moved forward, but not by too much.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Edward Longe Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 10 Jul 2009 at 10:44pm
Ok, I have not been  totaly honest about my most memorable experiences, I should of added
1) Not securing the fuel cap on the fuel tanks so we leaked feul.
2) Nearly and I mean about inches from clipping wings with a stationary aircraft while attempting to park.
3) Conpleteing my first NavEx and Land away.


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I have a few as well,

1. First flight - 31 May 1977, Piper Archer ZS-JUG - At Grand Central Airport Jo'burg.
 
2. First flying lesson - 1980, Cessna 150 - ZS-JWW - At Rand Airport Jo'Burg.
 
3. First aborted take off (DC-3 ZS-FRM), flying as passenger from the Kruger National Park -
    Jo'Burg after hitting a warthog on the runway.
 
4. First aircraft accident - ZS -JVB - Piper Cherokee, aborted take off(after becoming
    airborne) ran off of runway. Nose gear broke. My cousin was the PIC.
 
5. Night flight in a SAAF DC-4 from Namibia to Pretoria - just seeing those exhuasts glow
    bright orange and the blue flames. And the noise from those P&W radials.
 
6. First jump seat flight - Airbus A300 - ZS - SDD nicknamed -Delta Dog by the SAA pilots
    who flew her. She always flew one wing low
 
7. Flying in an almost empty 747SP - quickest ever take off in a jet, followed by a very
    rapid climb.
 
8. Taking my youngest son flying for the first time, he was only 3 days old.
 
There are many others, but those are the most memorable.
 
 
 
 
 
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I only have a couple! When I was much younger
1.being given the controls (well being told I was!) of a VIR 747 over the atlantic for a few seconds and
 2.flying solo for the first time.
3.Also seeing the cockpit of a 757 with large, separated cumulus clouds, about to reach 10,000ft I think, the view was STUNNING.
 
How did so many of you manage to get seats in the Jumpseat! I didn't think you could even visit the flightdeck anymore inflight!
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quite a few although they wont mean much to others.  In no order at all.
 
1) seeing the Flight deck of a Pan Am 747-100 whilst en route from Heathrow to Miami
 
2) First ever flight, was in a British Caledonian BAC 1-11 to Jersey from Gatwick.   Weather was horrendous, first landing was great fun!
 
3) being on one of the last BA DC-10 flights from Gatwick to Bermuda.  I enjoyed it as it was an ex British Caledonian DC-10.  Not fond of BA to be honest.
 
4) flying on a Delta L-1011 a few times before they were retired.  One of my favourite sights in the sky in that old livery.
 
5) a few missed approaches, always great fun.  Had one in a 757 into Gatwick, two in a Ryanair 737 into Newquay in very strong winds.
 
6) landings in general: one in an Air South West Dash 8 into Plymouth springs to mind, as does an incredibly wet one in a Malaysian 747-400 into Penang.  The reversers sent the water up wildy after a heavy down pour.
 
7) any flight in business class.  Heathrow via Penang / Kuala Lumpar to Sydney with Malaysian Airlines for the Rugby World Cup in 2003.  Virgin from Washington to Heathrow, and Cathay Pacific Heathrow via Hong Kong to Sydney return in a brand new cabin.
 
8) having a flight cancelled in Florida in 2005 and then realising that the aircraft that they subsequently chartered to take us to Washington was a Pan Am Clipper Connection Boeing 727-200.  I doubted I will ever fly a 727 again.   The last time before that was in 1992!!
 
9) seeing the Northern Lights whilst en-route from Calgary to London aboard an Air Canada A330.
 
10) last but not least, every time I approach Newquay's runway 12 (i.e. from the sea) and see all that beautiful coastline.  If I sit in seat D (dash 8) I can virtually see my flat.
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I have 4:

1) Going into a Fa-18 and going straight up for a couple thousand feet
2) On a safari skimming the water with a propliner
3) going on the A380 for the 1st time
4) flying a seaplane in the Maldives
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1 ) Viewing the cockpit of a 737-400, enroute from Norwich - Tenerife, flying down the coast of Africa, brilliant sight,
 
2 ) Walking across the tarmac at Gatwick to the steps of the A321 flight to Palma and seeing a 767 being pushed back and starting number 2 engine a few gates down
 
after hitting an air pocket,
 
Technically these do not exist but i know what you mean Wink
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Just to add another memorable expierence.

Easter 2008 flying back from florida on a United 777 and looking out at Ireland and the Isle of Man all lit up like christmas trees with dawn breaking ahead of the aircraft.
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In no particular order:
 
1.  DHC-6 Twin Otter Seaplane flight from Male to our resort in the Maldives
 
2.  Mid 80's getting up on the flight deck of a B747-300 with Singapore Airlines (and finding the first officer eased back with his feet up on the panel)  :-)
 
3.  First Solo Landaways (to Wick and Kirkwall)
 
4.  Grass Strip training at Dornoch with a stonking crosswind.  :-D
 
5.  Coming back from Kirkwall one day:  G-IT, Traffic information for you, fast jet, 1000' below you at your 6 o'clock turning right.....(by the time I looked round, RAF Tornado was moving from my 5 o'clo...4 o'clo...3 o'clo....he's gone....)
 
6.  Anytime you get to experience the approach and landing onto Runway 33 at Sumburgh as you approach below the light house and turn onto  a very short final.  Oh yeah.
 
I'm sure that over the years there will be many more to come.
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My most memorbale flights?
 
No 1 & 2 - Flying on Concorde when I was Five in 1986 from Heathrow to Yeovilton (escorted by two Sea Harriers) and flying back from New York in 2003.
 
No 3 - My first flight in a Dash 8-300 with Brymon Airways from Bristol to Plymouth (I was on the jumpseat on the flight deck).
 
No 4 - Flying back from Brazil on an ERJ-145 to Bristol, taking three days to complete.
 
No 5 - Flying back to Bristol one evening on an ERJ-145 landing in a 30kt crosswind.
 
No 6 - not yet done but would love to fly in a VC-10 before they are retiredWink
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Originally posted by MartinW MartinW wrote:

The very special formation flight is top secret.
 Smile

 

Hotty could tell you but he would then have to make sure you couldn't tell anyone else.


If I did I'd have to shoot you.

The pictures are elsewhere on the web.

Sadly with the Harvard and Alpha Jet, being based at Boscombe Down, I decided not to bend the rule (enforced in large letters at the main gate) regarding taking cameras, which is a bit of a regret, as it'll never happen again. Unless I acquire a brain size of a planet in the next decade. Doubtful.
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The very special formation flight is top secret.
 Smile
 
Hotty could tell you but he would then have to make sure you couldn't tell anyone else.
 
I'm sure you understand.
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