Classic British Flight Sim

Hi Gents,

I came across this film and thought if you have the time [41Minutes] you may enjoy this and the VC10 from the 1970's,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03ppjh8lg_8

Sorry about the numbers on screen but it did not interfere with my enjoyment of it.

Cheers,

Roger.

This same film was highlighted here some months ago but it does no harm to bring it to light once more

ATB
DaveB

Indeed Dave

things can disappear down the list fast, especially in E&S so there are always some that miss it and of course new members.

Thanks for posting Roger.

I guess the newbies been retired a little while now or a bet about to.

The frightening thing for me is that I still think of this as not too long ago, but I was thirteen

Dodger , yes , it was a bit like that . We came through the sausage machine a bit later , but was still a bit old fashioned , formal , militaryish . At the end we filled out a ''preference'' form.... yep BOAC VC10 London 1st , BEA Skyvan Glasgow 2nd ........ all ended up on BEA Tridents London ! ... airline equivalent of PBI [ poor bloody infantry ]. Remember 1st supernumerary , not to Beirut but 55 mins to Belfast and then back [ BEA - back every afternoon ] . Superb training, and very lucky and privileged to do it , and for the following 36 years . 'Tho when finished Hamble .. no jobs so living in a caravan , end of rwy at Manchester , doing aerial photography and joy-rides at week-ends in a Beagle Husky [ Thanks to Dave Molyneaux and Britsim's G-ASNC { registration letters were Very pale and Very small to minimise being reported when low flying for a photo } ].
Only 4 Chippys [ thanks Rick Piper ] left at Hamble in our time , flew 3 ... the 4th was G-ARMC , seen bouncing down the rwy [ in the vid ] in the very capable hands of ''The Walrus '' Deputy CFI Joe Douglas . 39 years later flew in her and passed the vid on to her owners , who were not aware of the pressures her main spar had been subject to !
Most of our time was on Pa 28s and original Link Trainers ; and then twin time on the Gentleman's Aerial Carriage , the Beech B55 Baron . Followed by lots of multi crew time in fixed base no visual Comet sims.
All of that era will have retired at 55 from BA , but may have worked 'til 60 with other operators. Euro legislation has changed that , and a few old colleagues are pushing their zimmer frames through the night and timezones towards 65 !
Garry , I'm afraid we were not much older than you ....but it' is more than 2/3rds of my life ago ,'tho the skills once learned stood us in good stead for a lifetime .

ATB dave f .