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- Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:49 pm
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: The Loan
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2690
A few hard questions I would ask myself: 1. If the dream turns into a nightmare, and you find yourself going back, after all the training is done and paid for, to whatever career or profession it is you did before, would you be able to afford a reasonable standard of living while repaying the loan? ...
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:32 pm
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: iphone + foreflight
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2195
- Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:30 pm
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: stall spin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3574
Buzz [quote I suppose in the end, it will be recorded as pilot error but can any of us here honestly say the result would have been any different if we had been on board? [/quote] I don't think anyone was implying that, nor would any real pilot. It seems just a numbers game when you read some of th...
- Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:50 am
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: The Loan
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2690
- Fri Jul 11, 2008 10:39 am
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: Homebuilds in Ireland & the SAAC.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3778
This nonsense of dropping the wheels and taxing up on the shore only works in the movies... Watch the summer water level drop 4ft and drive your extended U/C into the buttend of a slipway and you'll only ever do it once.... You have quite a lot of float experience J3, I assume then like most people...
- Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: stall spin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3574
The quality of the AAIU investigations and reporting is amongst the best that there is in my opinion. One would only have to look at the junk churned out by some of the foreign investigators to see this. The Helios report was one such example: incoherent, rambling and flawed. I feel the AAIU (and AA...
- Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:19 pm
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: Africa or Bust?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2029
ifty , There is risk in everything from the moment you get out of bed until the moment you get back in at the end of the day. The point I was trying to make is to fully educate yourself of exactly what you are getting into before you go. It's not Disney World or a National Geographic programme on t...
- Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:58 pm
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: Africa or Bust?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2029
N714GZ , My best friend and flight instructor had a very strong urge to go to Africa, which he did, and loved every minute of it, right up until the point he was killed in a crash he was the Pilot of, taking 4 passengers with him. A week before that he had a total engine failure after an oil leak a...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:30 pm
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: Florida Training.. Which School
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4340
This Polls won't really prove anything. It would be quite rare for one person to A) have gone to all three schools B) Done so in a short enough period of time to draw comparisons. You need to use the likes of this site and PPRuNe to people that are there now or have been recently to get the feedback...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:05 pm
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: ATPL school rep
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4856
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:48 pm
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: cabair interview
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1055
The question I have is why? You don't need anything approaching the level of Education that obtaining a degree requires, to be a Pilot. It will make very little difference to your job prospects with anyone other then BA. If you want to enter the commerce side of an airline then you should have a mor...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 6:41 pm
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: Forum Colour contrast
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1045
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 12:38 am
- Forum: Irish General Aviation
- Topic: Gulfstream emergency landing in field, Circa 1980's
- Replies: 26
- Views: 20310
Thanks for posting those photos. Looking at them one would wonder why they didn't consider using the mainroad? It would have been interesting to read the official incident report into that one too, theoretically things like that aren't supposed to happen using IFR flight planning rules. Theoretically!
- Mon Dec 03, 2007 10:18 am
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: training in florida
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3470
I trained at EFT quite some time ago. Very good training, good standardization, instructors were all JAA qualified, progress is quick. However, they are very expensive. There are a lot of hidden extras and charges. I would say they might be up to 30% more expensive then the competition. When buying ...
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 7:55 pm
- Forum: Learning to Fly
- Topic: Pilot Requirement Surveys
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1834