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Dave Disney
Joined: 16 Aug 2010
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Location: Weston-Super-Mare
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 Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:46 am Post subject: UK Mono Training |
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I’m just completing the purchase of a mono and want to get some training to fly it safely. I’ve contacted the LAA coaching scheme and are waiting for their reply, but I thought I would ask on here for the ‘experts’ thoughts.
I have about 300 hours flying time, most of it in my former aircraft an Airtourer. I have no tail wheel experience at all. The aircraft I’m buying is a 100hp XS mono with a fixed pitch prop.
I hope to base the aircraft at Westonzoyland near Bridgewater in Somerset but I still have my old hanger at New Farm near Bristol Airport where the runway is a bit longer than Westonzoylands but slopes and can’t be used for circuit work or training.
Can anybody recommend suitably qualified instructors in the south West (Gloucester to Exeter) who might be worth approaching if LAA coaching are unable to help.
Any ideas appreciated.
Dave Disney
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graeme bird
Joined: 15 Jul 2010
Posts: 434
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:35 am Post subject: Re: UK Mono Training |
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I can recommend Andy Draper. I was in a similar situation although he also did the flight test on the plane. I moved it to Sywell where there is a choice of runways and open grass. I did a few sessions with him and then some solo, later back for a session on the concrete. It was all done through the coaching scheme. I had about 500 hrs but also no tail wheel but havent had a problem so far. I did about 70 Takeoff/landings before moving it to the strip.
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Richard Lamprey
Joined: 15 Jul 2011
Posts: 95
Location: Kenya
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| Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:07 am Post subject: Re: UK Mono Training |
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Dave, you may want to start tailwheel conversion on something simple, then build up. Having completed my monowheel Europe classic in Kenya in 1999, I came to UK for conversion. All my experience was on nosewheels (4000 hours Cessnas and Pipers- mostly Cessna 206), so I started on a docile taildragger, the Citabria, at Compton Abbas (2 hours); then Supercub at Old Sarum (2 hours); then on the PFA coaching scheme's instructor Air Vice Marshall John Brownlow on a borrowed Europa at Cambridge airport (3 hours and thanks to Tony Smythe for loan of G-BWZT). John Brownlow is a very patient coach, and is still very active in his retirement, saving kit plane builders from themselves at first flight stage... You might want to contact him.
Best
Richard
Kenya Classic, 5Y-LRY
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