Classic British Flight Sim

His courage in carrying on after his catastrophic accident was phenomenal ; RIP

I travelled on one of the last , sad, flights of EAA, from Nairobi to Heathrow in Super VC10 5H-MOG ( which appears at the start of the film) . The flight was made distinctive by Captain Preston - a James Robertson Justice lookalike - paying the Shell agent off for fuel in cash from a briefcase stuf...

Reading ( 3000 books or so ) ; Playing the piano ( shelves and shelves of music which people keep leaving to me ) ; Classic cars of which I have 5, and feel very guilty about neglecting as I grow old and decrepit !

Would the result of the buzzards be called a Booster?

Quite a lot of light and ultralight aircraft of the 1950s/60s had no gyro instruments and thus were strictly VMC only machines. If you had turn and slip, you could in an emergency deal with IMC on a limited panel basis ( the IR and later the IMC rating tests included a mandatory limited panel sectio...

Crikey ! they were lucky to ( largely) get away with that

Another vote for Littlenavmap . You can draft your flight plan on it and then load it directly into your FMS, and the map which is real world based is quite superb with every navaid you can imagine clearly shown . It is worth downloading the separate manual

Nigel - changing the topic entirely, I hope you have not been affected by this afternoon's tornado in Grimsby

I presume you use these with a Minnow Fish carburetter

I don't think I'd want to fly with 2 pilots ( ignoring cabin staff) weighing 42.5 kgs each ! Seriously emaciated ....