After flying well above the Highgrove Restricted Airspace (front picture) Dennis Ives had to endure dodging around some very low cloud to get to Chepstow to see his business from the air. We had great fun on the way home cloud surfing!
Great flying Dennis – well done, dy
Avebury Stone Circle is always a good target for air experience flights, plus a few white horses. First time pilot Connor Reens showing how to fly circles round Silbury Hill!
Well done!
In case anyone missed the significance of the last reel the TeamEurostar G-CEFZ is BACK from repair! Available for bookings!
This week 22 Sapperton C of E Primary School children visited Kemble Flying Club to learn something more about flying which is in their curriculum. The visit included time with dy on everything from Ikarus and Elmer through the sheep, the duck and the cockerel on the first balloon flight in 1783, past the Wright brothers to hang gliding, paragliding and modern microlight flying. They also had a short slide show on flying in Nepal and Africa so were taken from the highest glacier in the World to the rainforest and the desert! Amy and Will from Cotswold Airport showed the children around Negus the Jumbo Jet which somehow included some Swiftie music and some dancing! So, thank you to them and also to Jim and Roger from the Britannia Society who showed off their aircraft and allowed all the children in the cockpit. And, thanks to the children for their thank you card.
In the end I just had to share this – remember the DC-6 that flew through the Mach Loop? Well, dy was on board!!!
Check it out on Youtube, @DafyddPhillips ‘Flying Bulls DC-6 Flies through Mach Loop’
It was a huge pleasure as the Airfield Manager at Llanbedr hosting the Red Bulls team and their amazing aircraft for this historic moment.
Aspiring commercial pilot Freddie Collins gets his first taste of hands on real flying including ENGINE OFF glide to 08 grass at Kemble where he actually landed himself – brilliant effort and good luck with all those exams!
Dursley’s Parsonage 53 restaurateur Georgina Brown smashes flying in first lesson with dy! After take off on 08 at Kemble, Georgina was soon working on effect of controls as we flew over the Cotswold Water Park and after heading over Cirencester we explored straight and level and co-ordinating stick and rudder.
In a short break from training, Georgina flew over the restaurant in Parsonage Street, Dursley and got some pics. We had a great flight back over the Westonbirt Arboretum and Malmesbury and Georgina was so thrilled she is booking more lessons.
Beautiful flying in no time at all! We are really pleased that he had so much fun and he has even booked more lessons with us 👍
All smiles and concentration from first time flyer Martin Miller and a perfectly executed level turn over the old Severn Bridge after rust 40 mins instruction - amazing!
Dr. Jones first landing in eight months- well done! Now the PhD is done we hope to see more of you! Dy
