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Originally Posted by earllogjam  Ahh, didn't know you were a pilot. Is PPL some sort of training test? |
PPL=Private Pilots Licence. There are two levels now, only one when I did mine.
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Originally Posted by earllogjam I remember a flight approach path that goes over the Kew Gardens and is a rather densly populated area. I'd be very interested in why the plane stalled as well. If it stalled any sooner we'd be asking about you as well as Headbang I guess. |
I live on the other side of London to that, not a million miles from the Lambourne hold, or more accurately on the penultimate turn before finals from it. There are rows of lights in the sky on busy nights.
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Originally Posted by earllogjam As a passenger it must be quite upsetting seeing that hulk of a wreck out your airplane window as you take off or worse, land at Heathrow. It brings me images of the airport in Montego Bay, Jamaica where cannibalized crashed planes are within eyesight of the take off taxiways. |
Puts me in mind of the dirt strip on Utila island. The shells of airplanes that didn't quite make it!! I spent a few months there diving in 1994 and it was a interesting flight in a 4 seater or a bumpy boat ride to the mainland. I'm no fan of boats.