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Help. Obtaining a UK Gliding License on the basis of my AmericanLicense
On Jul 8, 5:01*pm, Chris Reed wrote:
Paul Jessop wrote: ... we fly this really sensible diagonal leg from downwind to base that will scare most airport-trained US pilots senseless I remember that the other way round - flying in the US soon after I went solo in the UK and hearing the cries of alarm from the back seat as I cut off the nice square corner of the circuit at *exactly* 45 degrees (as I said, I'd only just gone solo). We have one or two other tricks up our sleeve for foreigners - for example, we turn left off aerotow not right. For a US visitor I'd suggest talking the UK instructor through your flight before launching would be a good idea, so as to identify these cultural differences before takeoff. As another example, Houston (where I flew in the US) began all circuits at 1000ft agl over a particular ground feature. At my UK flatland club we'd still be scratching at that height and start the circuit around 700ft from an appropriate point, maybe joining the circuit half way down the downwind leg. Fortunately I'd been briefed on that beforehand, otherwise I'd not have got as far as introducing Houston to the British diagonal. Clubs based in the hills * have modified circuit procedures to deal with curlover in particular wind directions, but they tend to brief on those anyway because UK flatlanders like me would otherwise get into trouble. Grin :-) I've now flown a bit in Germany, Sweden, Austria, and the UK. Everybody has their own local customs, but at the end of the day we all figure out how to get the ship down in one big piece. |
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