by David West | Dec 17, 2023 | News
I ran a series of posts about my flying training recently. On 17th December 1903 the first sustained powered flight was made by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk North Carolina. It lasted twelve seconds, achieved a speed of almost seven miles per hour, and an altitude of...
by David West | Dec 15, 2023 | News
I’ve now written 20,000 words in Book 5 of the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures, and I’ve barely got started. I’m in chapter 4, and we’ve just had the second murder. The tension is ramping up, and we now have jeopardy. I have a working title, The Favourite Murder. It’ll...
by David West | Dec 12, 2023 | News
My last post concerned a trainee pilot who packed his bags and flew back to the UK after getting lost on a solo cross country. Panic had taken hold of him. A few days later I was flying a solo cross country when I experienced something similar. I’d had a bit of a...
by David West | Dec 10, 2023 | News
I was flying over Florida, some days after my first solo. I was flying Six India Oscar, another Cessna 152. The weather as usual was clear and sunny. You’d think it was hard to get lost. Florida is a fairly easy place to navigate in a an aeroplane. Apart from TV...
by David West | Dec 8, 2023 | News
That’s me in the photograph standing next to Seven Zulu Yankee, the Cessna 152 that I flew my first solo in. The airfield was Fort Pierce on the east coast of Florida. According to my logbook that was on 31st May 1989. I said in my last post, autopilot, that I could...
