Yesterday afternoon I flew from Oxford to Birmingham – and back again – as a passenger. It’s always useful to sit in on others lessons to learn from their strengths/weaknesses and to also listen to the air traffic control. There is a lot more talk about in instrument flight and it’s taking some getting used to so I’ll take all the radio chatter I can get. Another advantage of being a passenger on a training flight is that you can see! England looks magnificent from the air, something that you miss when you’re the pilot because you’re behind the screens.
The prop looks pretty crazy on this picture of the left hand engine!
Birmingham director had us fly a 360 which took us over Coventry airport. A Swissair 146 landed before us and a Ryanair 737 afterwards.
No, nope. No-one has messed up my front lawn.
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Yes, that propeller does look distinctly monstrous!