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Summary:
354 hours TT 252 P1
Instrument Rating(Restricted)
Night Rating
Milestones:
First Solo March 1997 – G BFBR Fairoaks
Qualifying Cross Country QXC July 2000 – Redhill, Goodwood, Manston
Skills Test August 2000 – G BOSO Redhill
ATOP September 2001
Cross Channel Checkride Southampton – Cherbourg July 2002
International flight to Tangier in Morocco from Malaga – January 2003
Night rating & IMC – February 2004
Aircraft I’ve flown:
PA28 277 hours on type (140, 161&Tdi, 180, 181&R, 200R)
C152 45 hours on type
C172 20 hours on type (including RG)
H300C
Tiger Moth
T600N
Cap 10B
PA30-160
TB10
AT-3
Cirrus SR20 G2
P2006T
Chipmunk
PA38
A320-200 – FFS Full Motion Simulator
B747-400 – FFS Full Motion Simulator
B737-200 – FFS Full Motion Simulator
DC9-15/32 – FFS Full Motion Simulator
Airfields I’ve flown from:
Redhill Aerodrome
Fairoaks Airport
Popham Airfield
Wycombe Air Park
White Waltham Airfield
London Biggin Hill Airport
Imperial War Museum Duxford
Southampton Airport
Maupertus Airport Cherbourg
London Ashford Airport Lydd
Lessay Airport
Málaga Airport
Almería Airport
Goodwood Aerodrome
Tangier Ibn Battouta Airport
Manston Airport
Rochester Airport
Isle of Wight/Sandown Airport
Le Touquet Airport
Brighton City Airport Shoreham
Aeropuerto de la Axarquía
Bembridge Airport
North Las Vegas Airport
Gillespie Field
Blackbushe Airport
Caen
My fini flight (final flight) before retirement
I was lucky that my final flight was actually test flying a new aircraft for a flying magazine.
The Tecnam P2006T is a twin engine aircraft with four seats. They cruise around 160mph and the cost in 2010 was in the region of £300,000.