A CAA safety webinar on engine malfunctions brough up some interestring points -do you trust fuel gauges, brief every takeoff properly, and take a hard look at the fields around your airfield every flight?. New Touch and Go Logbook piece, Read More 1 Likes
Duxford queue today: two Spitfires, a Harvard and a Tiger Moth. I'll take that hold any day of the week. Flew home to Elstree with Caz in the back, buzzed past Leavesden Studios (still hunting for my broomstick), then a straight Read More 5 Likes
Jack's doing his ATPLs. He's the oldest one on the course, older than some of his classmates' parents by his own admission. You'd think that's a disadvantage. It isn't. We talked about it mid-flight in KK, why the twenty year olds Read More 2 Likes
Twenty times more radiation at cruise than on my kitchen table. For a passenger that works out at about a tenth of a chest X-ray, and it is not worth a moment of your attention. For the crew flying it every Read More 1 Likes
Please stay away from my aircraft. On the ground, anyway. There's a world between a stranger telling me something and a stranger doing something. Words I can let pass. A hand I can't. The marshaller who isn't a marshaller. Plenty of room, Read More 5 Likes
Don't climb into an X-ray machine at the airport. Background radiation where I was standing: 0.05 microsieverts an hour. The detector going through the bag scanner: maxed out at 15,000. Maxed out, as in the machine couldn't measure any higher. So the real number Read More 14 Comments
