Lake Vyrnwy and Shobdon

Sunday started even colder, the outside registered -3 on the drive upto Gloucester. The intention today, was to take 2 friends up to Lake Vyrnwy (https://www.lakevyrnwy.com) and pop into Shobdon on the return leg. Company policy states that self fly hire to Lake Vyrnwy isn’t permitted so Doug came along too. After a very chilly […]

Bristol CTR and the Brecon Beacons

Saturday morning was fresh, with snow still on the ground covering the South West of England. The plan for the day was to take the R22 into Urchinwood Manor; a private site just under and to the south of the Bristol Airport 27 climbout (http://www.urchinwoodmanor.co.uk). We would then head across into Wales and seek out […]

R44 Rating

I was straight back into the cockpit after Christmas, the 2nd January to be precise. I had last flown around 12 days earlier in my PPL skills test in the R22 and was now setting out to fly the R44. I was lucky enough, at this stage of my flying to already have close to […]

AB Initio

Being recently qualified, rated and current on the Robinson R22 and R44, the next 12 months is set aside for interesting and multiple hour building sorties. This blog will be the living medium to document these trips, share the videos, photos and stories of my journey en-route to the commercial helicopter pilots course. After my […]