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>"Ben newsam" gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:10:49 -0500, "Viva" privacy.net> wrote:

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>>>...let us know how it went. How nice to have
>>>your son home for a while.

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>> It went very well, although expensive of course. The ace pilot had to
>> do a proving flight first (that was expensive too). Our flight
>> (piloted by my son) of an hour and a quarter, and his proving flight
>> of about 40 minutes, together with the instructor's time, landing fee,
>> VAT, etc., came to about, ummm, 350 quid. They wouldn't let him have
>> the whizz bang Slingsby Firefly because he isn't qualified enough,
>> apparently. Also, the cloud ceiling was too low to prat about doing
>> loops, so we got a flying pig instead. We circled the airfield (near
>> Scunthorpe), got permission to fly over the runway at Doncaster
>> airport, then skirted Sheffield to fly over the hills and viewed the
>> dams up there (Ladybower etc.). Then we skirted Sheffield a bit closer
>> on the way back and I saw my house from the air. Then back to sunny
>> Scunthorpe. It was huge fun, and a grand day out.
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>Yes, sounds like you had a great time. I have never flown in anything but a
>private plane. I liked that the countryside looks like a brillant patchwork
>quilt...I could see a little yellow school bus going down a country lane.