Flights With Rosie http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk Learn to fly microlights in East Kent with Rosie! Wed, 11 Apr 2012 08:31:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Learning to fly my own gyro! http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2012/04/08/learning-to-fly-my-own-gyro/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2012/04/08/learning-to-fly-my-own-gyro/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:34:15 +0000 rosie http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/?p=1077

Converting onto the Magni Orion

Thank you, Phil Harwood and Nick Wright, [the gyrocopter experience, York, who converted me onto the Magni Orion [or M24] in March. I made the journey south from Rufforth, near York, to Maypole, near Canterbury without alarming Scampton, Waddington, Luton or Stansted!

It helps to take off the rotor brake!

Enjoy YOUR flying as well

Rosie

]]> http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2012/04/08/learning-to-fly-my-own-gyro/feed/ 0 HAPPY 2012! http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2012/01/03/happy-2012/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2012/01/03/happy-2012/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:10:37 +0000 rosie http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/?p=1064 HERE WE GO, EVERYONE, OLYMPIC YEAR, 2012.

Hurrah, the days are now getting longer again. Look out for those good spells of weather and be ready to fly!

Good flying this year

Rosie

]]> http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2012/01/03/happy-2012/feed/ 0 Congratulations Rosie! http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2011/04/24/congratulations-rosie/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2011/04/24/congratulations-rosie/#comments Sun, 24 Apr 2011 15:04:21 +0000 rosie http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/?p=1037 Yes, I’m congratulating myself!

Being sent first solo is a terrifying but liberating experience. You know you can do it but the instructor wont get out. Funny how as soon as he does get out you are not so confident any longer!

At last, Steve Boxall, my gyrocopter instructor, sent me solo. Once I’d taken off there was that unique, first solo, shock: only I could get me down! What a wonderful way to spend a day in March!

In April, I did my first solo cross country to Sandown, Isle of Wight. Even better, I found my way back to Old Sarum again. Steve Boxall was so pleased to get his Magni 16 back! Thanks Steve.

How was your flying in March and April?

]]> http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2011/04/24/congratulations-rosie/feed/ 0 Anyone want to share a Magni 24 in Kent? http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/12/03/anyone-want-to-share-a-magni-24-in-kent/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/12/03/anyone-want-to-share-a-magni-24-in-kent/#comments Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:00:10 +0000 rosie http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/?p=1022 Hi everyone

Went to the Flying Show last weekend and saw the Magni 24 side by side, full cockpit, gyrocopter. It does look good. I’ve had a few hours in the Magni 16 with Steve Boxall at Old Sarum and really enjoyed myself! We were doing circuits in 16 gusting 26 winds with no problem. This is the attraction of course besides the gyro’s great manoeuvrability and short landing roll.

The price is £70,000, however! So anyone interested?

Rosie

]]> http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/12/03/anyone-want-to-share-a-magni-24-in-kent/feed/ 0 CONGRATULATIONS STEVE! http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/10/05/congratulations-steve/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/10/05/congratulations-steve/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:15:28 +0000 rosie http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/?p=1008 Congratulations to Steve who went SOLO. I thought he might bring my aircraft back okay so I got out for that Very Very Special First Solo moment. Steve found that I weigh a certain amount so he was up in the air quicker than he is used to but he controlled it well. Seemingly he was a bit delusional as he could still hear me talking all the way round the circuit!

My special memory

The sun setting behind me and the red light reflected off the flash of Steve’s teeth! He remembered to taxi back to pick me up too. Weird to give so much pleasure just by staying on the ground!

Very Well Done, Steve. Not long now to your licence, weather permitting.

Rosie

]]> http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/10/05/congratulations-steve/feed/ 0 Welcome to the improved website! http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/13/welcome-to-the-website/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/13/welcome-to-the-website/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 09:00:08 +0000 rosie http://bensimpson.info/?p=10 Welcome to the website. What do you think of it?!  Comments are now easy to make and much appreciated, (probably!).

The aim of the new site is to give far more explanation for those trying to choose a first flight. It is also more user friendly for the trainee pilot. Your critique is requested. I love the Met office widget!

Thanks to those “old” f-w-r pilots who have made contact but if you are intending to make contact, do remind me of our particular adventure(s) whilst sharing a microlight and perhaps what flying you are doing now.

]]> http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/13/welcome-to-the-website/feed/ 0 From seeing that first flying advert, it took me a year to book my first flight http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/11/how-long-did-it-take-you-to-organise-your-first-flight/ http://flights-with-rosie.co.uk/index.php/2010/09/11/how-long-did-it-take-you-to-organise-your-first-flight/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 14:21:15 +0000 ben http://bensimpson.info/?p=55 My first ever flight in a flying machine was in a two seater aircraft. Before I booked it, I wrote  to the flying school to ask how much the licence would cost. The answer frightened me off for a whole year. Then I thought, “Well, one flight can’t do any harm.”  It was WONDERFUL! Two years later I had a pilot’s licence!

Did you have a similar experience?

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