Nice thing about Newcastle Aerodrome is that when the active runway is 36, you can park right under the glideslope and watch everyone else landing :D

Must go back there some day when it's not pouring rain and do some sketching...

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I mean... maybe there's a nice watercolour in there somewhere?
Something to noodle with..

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Fly in summer, groundschool in winter, they used to say before climate change...

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It was a busy day over in Newcastle aerodrome on Friday, prepping for the Special Day of Flying on Saturday. Gets a lot of disabled and special needs kids into aircraft and around the airfield and they get a lot out of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCQeTksQetA

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Wind was 16 gusting 27. Hardest day yet. Blown around like a shopping bag every time we were below 500 feet and I could not for the life of me get my head to settle down and just fly the airplane instead of fighting it all the time.
Oh well. Learning experience :D

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*sigh*

So irksome.

"Y'know, if we charged students a tenner for landing fees, every time you did a circuit you'd owe us fifty quid...."

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I don't understand. It's not sticking straight out and it's not pointing across the runway. Is it broken?

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Was poking about looking at other people's panels today. A Beech 90 King Air, which I don't fit into the pilot's seat of 😢 , a Slingsby Firefly (drool), and the Viper SD-4 I'm training in.

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Went to the airfield for a few minutes today (just to poke my head round the door because the covid fatigue is mild but still too real to go flying safely) and oh my the drooling...

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This was so much fun. Nobody's flying today (Biden's visit has all the Dublin area airfields shut down with no-fly zones) and he wasn't really ready for starting an engine because of nerves, but five minutes of sitting in the left-hand seat and he was asking when we can go fly and annoyed that it'll be at least 18 months to two years :D

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