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When I first started learning to fly I recorded some of my flights, and started a YouTube channel, where you will find all of my flying videos but sometimes it is easier to find my videos here. You will find everything from the my initial learning to fly first steps, to my solos and then longer journeys.

  • 3 Years as a Pilot

    It has been 3 years to the day assuming you are reading this on December 22nd 2024, of my passing my PPL. Since then it has been a journey with ups and downs. Was it worth it? You will have to possibly watch the video to find out 

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  • UFOs and short Runways

     Mystery, Mayhem and short runways in a flight to Beccles Airfield in my C172. As well as landing on my shortest runway, I had to contend with the possibility of Exploding boats, Mystery UFOs and tongue tied flight instructors on the way, all in a day trip to Beccles Airfield

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  • Extra Extra Extra

    There once was a time when flying was just aerobatics. And then I got a private pilots licence and decided that flying was much more sedate pastime.

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Twenty times more radiation at cruise than on my kitchen table.For a passenger that works out at....
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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
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Please stay away from my aircraft. On the ground, anyway.There's a world between a stranger tell....
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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
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Don't climb into an X-ray machine at the airport.Background radiation where I was standing: 0.05....
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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
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I bought a radiation detector because I like things that go beep.Then I took it through airport ....
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I bought a radiation detector because I like things that go beep.
Then I took it through airport security with the recording running, and then onto a plane.
One of those was considerably more eventful than the other.
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Ok I admit it I bounced a landing at Duxford. More than once. New video up now where I go back t....
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Ok I admit it I bounced a landing at Duxford. More than once. New video up now where I go back through the whole approach from the cockpit and work out what actually went wrong. Spoiler, it started a long Read More 2 Comments
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Eight thousand hours.That's what YouTube wants for the Partner Programme from February, up from ....
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Eight thousand hours.
That's what YouTube wants for the Partner Programme from February, up from four thousand. A PPL takes 45 hours minimum. Imagine if that doubled overnight.
I posted saying I was finished. 853 people liked it, and most of the Read More
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