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So you've been caught by the aviation microbe? Sorry to say but I've a bad diagnosis...you will carry this microbe untill the end of your life and maybe you will infect other people too. So be careful!
How to learn about it? Just read everything on this site, that would be a great step! And ask questions as many as you want, that's how you'll learn it. Watch and read everything about aviation, and then you'll be able to talk about it with fellow aviation freaks!
Thanks for that.
i do get the impression that i can learn by participating in these forums, a lot of the topics are excellent for beginners like myself
Welcome to Luchtzak CN_RAM. Nice to see another member in England.
VC10 omits to say that she has also learned about aviation from yours truly, but she has become more frequent on Luchtzak and now I have to drag her from the computer if I want to post anything
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
Enjoy your time over here, ask a question if you want to know something, and for the rest: have a good look at the advice of apuneger, and at all the other advice given in this thread!
i read flight international but at times it gets too technical. and i hate defence/military - take that crap out man.
i fly often but i still can't tell the difference between a 737 and a 757, or an a320 and an a321 etc etc
i have read through a lot of forums and have even posted one or two messages, so i'm getting there
just read that an olympic airlines plane had to be diverted because of a bomb scare - terrible, must be real scary. anyone here been on a flight and been told there may be a problem on board?
CN-RAM wrote: anyone here been on a flight and been told there may be a problem on board?
Sort of. Me and VC10 were on an Icelandair 737 which was just about to start its take off run at Keflavik Airport when the engines cut out and we had to return to the terminal. We sat for ages in the aircraft whilst the problem was dealt with, but no one was happy when the aircraft eventually left. When we landed in Glasgow we were met and escorted to the terminal by the fire brigade. I rate that as the worst flight I have ever been on.
Sabena and Sobelair - gone but never forgotten.
Louise
So you've been caught by the aviation microbe? Sorry to say but I've a bad diagnosis...you will carry this microbe untill the end of your life and maybe you will infect other people too. So be careful!
I think you're right, it was my friend (who we call spotty because he likes aircraft, but he doesn't actually spot aircraft though) who actually took me along to farnborough - i've been infected!
does anybody have a cure?!
actually, i don't want to be cured just yet........this stuff is actually quite interesting
CN-RAM wrote: I've been infected! does anybody have a cure?!
actually, i don't want to be cured just yet........this stuff is actually quite interesting
I am happy to say there is no cure for the aviation bug; all you can do to keep it happy is to spend times at airports or flying, & you will find it is quite good to have the '"bug"
I used to watch planes all the time up at Luton airport, Every weekend i was there from morning till night, then weekdays became a habit HA!
I then hit 16 and took a step back from it all and i must say i was miserable, Watching the planes flying over my house because i live right next to the flightpath . . .
I think everyone is taken back by the awesomness that is aircraft ... Tonnes of Metal and power roaring around our planet on a constant basis.
I for one am an addict and its an addiction i will never grow tired of
ps . . CN-RAM you live in London so you got a mighty big choice of local airports to start your learning at 8)
