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...
by David West | Dec 6, 2023 | News
We had our weekly dancing lesson this morning. Our instructor, Joanna, is working on my ballroom frame (at our request I should add). Chest out! Shoulder blades together! Shoulders down! Elbows up! Knees bent! Look left! Believe it or not you’re supposed to remember...
by David West | Dec 2, 2023 | News
Doesn’t time fly? It feels like only a few months since I posted about last year’s village Christmas Fayre, yet I’ve just returned from this year’s KSM Christmas Fayre. There were a few differences. I had a different table this year, whereas I was by the entrance last...
