rob oneill

I have been told by a friend that it is common practice for light air craft pilots to ferry people around the country in order to keep their flying hours up so to keep their pilots licence, whereby the passanger pays part or all of the cost of the flight.
Assuming hes not just winding me up! I want to fly from Liverpool / Manchester to Dover/ Folkstone on Thursday or Friday to pick my new car up. Can anyone help, or know anyone who may be able to help?

Thanks, Rob.

Scooby96

Yep my mate does some "unnecessary" flights but to france for beer and vino - no idea if thats to keep his pilots licence. Thought that was just for commercial pilots but I could be wrong.

Wouldnt it be cheaper to train it from Liverpool to Manc then fly to Gatwick and get another train to Dover/Folkes ?

CrisPDuk

When I went to Oz with a couple of mates, we got a flight over Sydney and up the coast based on the same principle, but that was with a friend of a friend I would imagine the same sort of set-up works over here I must admit, it's a novel way of getting down there

rob oneill

Thanks guys.
Im not having much luck getting info on flying in a light air craft suprisingly!
Looked into flying to gatwick, but I still have to get 2 trains after that, so I may just train it all the way. Bit putt off about having to get the tube though, sounds a bit complicated.
My other option is to drive down in the old banger Im driving round in at the moment and dump it at a scrap yard in folkstone area! then drive my new scoob back!

If anyone has any other suggestions, then please let me know.
Thanks again! Rob.

Sbradley

Rob, you don't even want to consider the landing fees at Gatwick...

Take a train all the way. By far the easiest option, and the cheapest too. The tube is a piece of ease if you can handle reading a colour coded map...

SB

Ray_li

travel light hand hitch a lift all the way down. think about the people you will meet on ya travel and the fun in risking it.

Ray

Chrisgr31

Well in a private plane he wouldn;t need to land at Gatwick! Could go to Lydd or Marston, and I assume there are some small private strips near Dover/Folkestone too.

Mind you posting the request on a pilots type board would possibly be more succesful!

Ray_li

buy a cheap cheap car and burn it, burn it allllll
Cost ya £50 to take it to a scrappy

rob oneill

May just go on the train/ tube then, seeing as Im not colour blind!
My current car is a 1988 1.3 309! so no quarms about scrapping that, oh how I miss having a scoob!!
Thanks anyway everyone,
Rob.

BTW, do you know how hard it it to get on one of those pilots forums, they are more fussy than scoobynet, you need a pilots number, then approval from the mods before you can post, obviously I have neither!

Wish

iTrader: (2)

What about renting a car ?

You can do one way rentals with Hertz ?

Dazza01

i work with a guy who has a licence, but he's on hols at the moment so thats no good to ya is it.

get's coat and leaves room as there was no point in posting this really.


or u could Get ur thumbs working and hitch a ride down there mate

deanimus

Have you tried registering on pprune.com?
I haven't been there in a while so not sure if you need a pilots lisence to register.

^Qwerty^

Nope you don't need a license

Faire D'Income

It would be far more cost effective to take a train as the cost of GA aircraft is prohibitive. It usually costs me around £120.00 per hour block to block but doesn't include landing fees so it's a costly business plus you have to factor in the weather which may prohibit the flight as most PPLs (myself included) only have a VFR rating which has various visibility/distance requirements as opposed to an IFR rating which allows you to fly in almost all low visibility conditions.

As for ferrying passengers, provided it's not for hire or reward you can split the costs with your passengers provided you pay your share although it's a bit of a grey area in terms of provability by the CAA, but from a pilot's point of view not worth the risk.

You'll get the same answer on PPRuNe if you post in the Questions forum, so as others have said take the train.

EddScott

Our MD used to fly Harriers and even wrote a book about his squadron and learning how to fly at the time the unknown harrier.

He has no interest in cars and hence doesn't own anything posh. However the car he does own does not have one panel without some sort of dent, gouge, scrape etc...

Top bloke but how he was responsible for something as complex as a harrier is beyond me