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Current Airline Captain (not of the swanky variety ;) )

Definitely not swanky.

 

So, which one of you chaps has any long haul upgrade clout then?

 

 

Got 10% travel rights with KLM but don't use it as wife needs me more than they do.

Never use it - Never go on holiday.

Holiday is a fowling trip in my world.

Beats sitting around an airport wondering if you will get a standby seat.

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30 years as a plumber and heating engineer. I don't really get invloved with installation work per se as I prefer fault finding/dianostic work. Have been self employed since 19. Oh! And I have a part time job at weekends at the local peanut factory farting in to the bags of dry roasted nuts.

ah that explains the Doc part, :)

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30 years as a plumber and heating engineer. I don't really get invloved with installation work per se as I prefer fault finding/dianostic work. Have been self employed since 19. Oh! And I have a part time job at weekends at the local peanut factory farting in to the bags of dry roasted nuts.

Id often wondered how they got that smell into the bags , you learn some proper interesting stuff on pw.:-).

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Aircrew paramedic for the best air ambulance service in the country

Yorkshire Air Ambulance?

Definitely not swanky.

 

 

Got 10% travel rights with KLM but don't use it as wife needs me more than they do.

Never use it - Never go on holiday.

Holiday is a fowling trip in my world.

Beats sitting around an airport wondering if you will get a standby seat.

What type did you used to fly Grandalf?

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I was the Senior Training Captain of the F27 Fleet then ditto when they changed us to the ATR 72.

Left them at 60 and went to Suckling Airways doing the same job on Dornier 328.

Before KLM the Shorts Belfast with Heavylift.

Before that ..... lots of things over 42 years.

Originally Auster IX and DeHavilland Beaver with Army Air Corps.

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I was the Senior Training Captain of the F27 Fleet then ditto when they changed us to the ATR 72.

Left them at 60 and went to Suckling Airways doing the same job on Dornier 328.

Before KLM the Shorts Belfast with Heavylift.

Before that ..... lots of things over 42 years.

Originally Auster IX and DeHavilland Beaver with Army Air Corps.

The Fokker F27- One of the first aeroplanes i ever flew in.

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Damned things! While playing with one of those in Aden I thought for a couple of seconds my RAF career was all over.

They had there oddities. One of our flight engineers managed to inject himself with hydraulic fluid at 4000psi. That didn't do his arm much good.

 

The Fokker F27- One of the first aeroplanes i ever flew in.

 

And one of the nicest that I ever flew. Loved the beast.

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Blimey Grandalf that was a bit of a jump from an Auster to a Belfast!

 

 

Wish you would post some pictures.

 

I have some but I will need to downsize them.

​When I have time I will see what I can do.

 

I went by way of the Piper range of twins then the Canadair CL44 - A stretched Brittania - then the Skymonster Guppy. That was a CL44 with a guppy conversion. They only ever built, converted, one of them.

Happy memories.

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They had there oddities. One of our flight engineers managed to inject himself with hydraulic fluid at 4000psi. That didn't do his arm much good.

 

 

And one of the nicest that I ever flew. Loved the beast.

Riggers' blood.

 

Was opening the ramp and door when there was an almighty bang closely followed by screaming and troopers' language. Thought for a second or two it was a 'left right left, clang' job until I realised the system was idiot proof which suited me. Went out to see a sooty and sparky absolutely covered in the stuff and a wall of red running down the fuselage. Turned out someone up in Bahrain had topped up the reservoir to the wrong level for the door/ramp configuration. Not content with doing it once when the aircraft got back to Bahrain he did it again but this time instead of relieving, it blew the reservoir apart.

 

Memory is losing it now, but am I right in thinking that they were designed to carry one of our armoured vehicles but they had to strengthen the floor which raised it and then you couldn't get the vehicle in.

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I have some but I will need to downsize them.

​When I have time I will see what I can do.

 

I went by way of the Piper range of twins then the Canadair CL44 - A stretched Brittania - then the Skymonster Guppy. That was a CL44 with a guppy conversion. They only ever built, converted, one of them.

Happy memories.

 

I'd love to see pics too

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