Equipment for PPL

[Iolanthe]

Oh such luxury the 152's I fly have a suction activated contraption that requires mouth on testing

Makes me eternally grateful that I fly one of Germany's finest!

Our stall warner lever is also Angle of Attack activated, and once you pass that, the lever is pushed up and we
get less of an "mp" more of an agitated raspy Oboe/angry wasp at "ff"!

[Rob P]

You're training on a Focke Wulf 190?

Bloody hell! I am impressed.

Rob P

[ZG 862]

You're training on a Focke Wulf 190?

Presumably other essential training items should therefore include:

Silk scarf
Leather flying hat
Sidearm

Aren't they really tricky to land or am I confusing them with the notoriously narrow tracked Me109?
If this is the trainer, I'd imagine Iolanthe will end up being the best pilot of us all...

[jackw101]

Many thanks for all your replies and for the welcome. Having a look at some the the websites everyone has suggested and has made me feel a lot better about getting the right things. As for the fuel strainer/checker I think ill have to ask my instructor about it again as it seems a bit ambiguous

Thanks again
Jack

[Rob P]

Wide-tracked late war fighter, a pussycat to land compared to the Bf109 by all accounts. and obviously available in a trainer version



Rob P

[Iolanthe]

Rob and Z,
FW190...if only!!!

Nah, this ones a 115, one of Herr Grob's finest.

But yes, I do have the white silk scarf which one of my friends gave me for my birthday this year! (but before you ask, no, I don't wear it flying ) and we have a leather flying helmet in the collection at work...never been tempted to wear that flying either....

I intend to do my Taildragger conversion on a Chippy once qualified though...and who knows where that will lead...

but now i'm running before I can walk...

[Rob P]

Nothing wrong with that.

It's the promise of what's open to you in the future that sustained all of us through the trickier/tedious bits of PPL (Air Law)

Rob P

[Iolanthe]

Absolutely! When I wonder what I am doing faffing about with a whizz wheel, or getting no where with short field circuits...
.....I just think back to that first magical flight aileron rolling and looping a Chippy with the aircraft in my control...

....and my wish to fly a Chippy solo...

...then of my dream of flying RJ Mitchell's finest....

...and it makes PPL training all seem worthwhile

[madmaveric]

pockets ... now why didn't I think of that,
<homer simpson mode on>
DOH!
<homer simpson mode off>

It's probably because of learning in the winter I'm normally wearing a big jumper but I think shirts/trousers with pockets on will be on next shopping list. The cabin of ht e robin doesn't have much in the way of cubbie holes and anything put into the side pockets is inevitably going to get forgotten and left in there.

As your giving out tips, anyone got a good one for wiping the marks off maps. My FI recommends using a dry wipe marker but there must be something smaller that would work (carrying one of those just to correct mistakes is a bit OTT as they are quite big). I was thinking maybe some wipes of some sort.

[Rob P]

Use chinagraph and the marks can be erased by wiping with a tissue

Rob P

[Paul_Sengupta]

Make-up remover wipes.

I wear combat style trousers. They have more pockets than a normal pair of trousers.

more of an agitated raspy Oboe/angry wasp at "ff"!

Did they use the same one they used on the Bulldog? They wanted to make sure you heard it over the clatter of a full chat IO-360. Frightens the life out of passengers if they're sitting in the aeroplane while I'm doing the pre-flight and I forget to warn them.

[RMurphy195]

Use chinagraph and the marks can be erased by wiping with a tissue

Rob P

I've found chinagraph also comes off easily with fingers and folded-over bits of map!

[riverrock]

if you write over in the same pen you used to write with again it will come easily off with any cloth (or smudge nicely with your finger).
Anything alcoholic will take off the pen marks (like hand sanitiser or baby wipes). In the air though - once its on the map I don't want it taken off again. If its wrong, I'll score it out and write the correct thing beside it. Otherwise I'd probably take off more than I wanted too - and I can't be bothered with the hassle!

If you scrub hard with your finger it will come off anyway. If you know you only want a temporary mark, you could use a non-permanent pen, but its likely to get wiped off by mistake (so I don't carry any to save confusion).

[madmaveric]

Thanks for the tip, never heard of chinagraph pens/pencils/crayons (whatever the correct term is for them lol). I'll give them a try.

[RMurphy195]

pockets ... now why didn't I think of that,
<homer simpson mode on>
DOH!
<homer simpson mode off>

It's probably because of learning in the winter I'm normally wearing a big jumper but I think shirts/trousers with pockets on will be on next shopping list.

You could do worse than keep an eye on Craghoppers web site for thier sales - the Kiwi trousers have big map (opps, chart!) pockets in the legs, with handy velcro closures, and the Kiwi shirts have a couple of useful pockets for pens, spare glasses etc - handy when it's too warm for a body warmer ... They also wash and dry easily, useful after the more exciting moments during training...

JJB sports do (or did, have they gone bust?) a handy stopwatch on a string for about a fiver - nice big numbers and buttons on it as well. I also saw a bright yellow version (maybe at Argos) which would be easy to find if you dropped it. Great for very young pilots As someone said, there is a retractable sharpie - handy in the cockpit,no detachable top to lose! (Picked up a set of non-retractable sharpies, 4 colours, for less than 3 quid from W H Smith recently)