Dirty old man

They probably put out more CO2 from Ratcliffe power station recharging their scooters than you breath out

It was burning well this morning again, I notice

Indeed it was. I can see the plume from my bedroom window.

Every time we go for a walk locally, as we did today, whilst we are used to general air traffic into EMA, what we are currently experiencing is Ryanair flying circuits. I suspect they are operating touch-and-go, quite a tight loop with steeply banked turns (flightradar24 shows some interesting traces). Seems like a polluting waste of fuel, not to say a noisy annoyance, but I presume some target for takeoffs & landings has to be met.

Chris

Hasn't the power station been running most of the summer?

Ryanair are training. Not sure if it is airport familiarity. flight familiarity or aircraft familiarity, but I think it is a good idea for their pilots to be competent. It's been going on for years.

Are you under the DHL flight paths? Until they amended them the house would shake as they did tight turns at low altitudes to short-cut their route, using big old noisy engines.

mmmmmmmmmm ??????????

Was I being too subtle I wonder??

But are you in safe hands? Don't you have to trust every motor vehicle driver to avoid you?

Why dirty old man, were you ogling some gaol-bait?

Yes, I would say so from my observations.

I hadn't previously been aware of it to quite the extent that is happening currently. Perhaps I am walking in West Leake woods more than previously.

I live about 400 metres from the outer marker beacon. Having been here for 36 years, I don't notice them much when indoors. Outside the big freighters do make a din, especially the Antanov, but I think a Vulcan and Concorde seemed loudest.

Chris

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More likely, lots of pilots are having to bring their flying experience up to date after not working for so long because of Covid. There is only so much they can do in a simulator.

It could be worse. If you ate that vegetarian food you could have been contributing hydrogen sulphide as well :-)

Yes their co2 is being made somewhere else and yet in the end its all one atmosphere, is it not?

Talking of slightly dirty old men, I wonder if Sir John Betchermin would have got away with that poem about a young lady riding her bike in Wales these days?

Brian

In fact, just about everything can be done in a Sim.

Except test fly aircraft to check they now work after maintenance.

....Or William Walton's 'Touch Her Soft Lips and Part' from Henry the 5th.

While that may be true, when I visited Malta, watching Lufthansa pilots practice circuits and bumps at the airport was a regular weekend entertainment for the locals, so there must be some benefit to doing it in a real aircraft. At the moment, I suspect that there are more pilots who have been sitting idle for a year or more than there are sims available for them to use, so it probably makes sense to use aircraft that also would otherwise be standing idle for the safer bits of retraining.

I may be out of date, but ISTR that the only non-sim requirement for a type conversion was for 6 landings as base training, but this could be waived if pilots and sim met certain requirements. A search for ZFTT would confirm whether or not I'm right. Now, back to DIY.

I reckon we can be certain that Ryanair will not be spending any money they didn't really have to. ;-)

Chris

When Bristows was British and operated out of Redhill, after mintenance they asked for volunteers to provide some ballast. For some reason the IT people always volunteered.

Maybe he was flying low as my daughter once accused me of when I had forgotten to zipup

My late mother in law was a foreman of a team of lady mechanics who repaired flak-damaged Lancasters. One of her jobs was to go up on test flights in the bomb bay to check that the doors and other moving parts still worked properly in-flight. When she went deaf in later life she got quite a good war disability pension out of it.