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Bob Staveley
I started flying many years ago in Norfolk at Tibenham the home of the Norfolk Gliding Club but, on moving to Derbyshire, my flying got forgotten about until, while on holiday in North Wales, I got myself a flight in a microlight from the beach near Barmouth and was once again hooked on flying.On returning home was unable to find anywhere to fly in a microlight but then discovered the Dukeries Gliding club and got back into the air in gliders and bought a share in one and thought that was that but then found it difficult to devote the required amount of time to fly and decided I would have to find a local site where I could get into a microlight which I did towards the end of last year.
After my first trial flight with Brian I decided this was the way to go and bought my machine from him and have not looked back since. The school is excellent and Brian is one of an unusual breed nowadays who is far more interested in helping us to achieve our goal of gaining a licence and maintaining our machines than making a fortune for himself so you can be sure that he will always do things for you at the best possible price.
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Craig Lebeter
My interest in flying all started for me about 10 years ago when I joined the air training corps, I stayed in for about a year, and out of all that time I managed to get a 45 minute flight in a chipmunk. I was in the back seat and wearing a WW2 parachute which did not instil loads of confidence in me , but it was fantastic and I vowed to one day fly again.
Well about 5 years later and after a lot of dreaming I booked myself in for a trial flight in a cessna I had one hour in the air and enjoyed it so much I enquired about regular lessons, on being told they would cost me about ?100 per lesson and I need about 50 or 60 lessons I decided to give it a miss(with quite a lot of disappointment). Well it didn't help me because I still desperately wanted to fly, so I looked at a few options and thought sky diving looks fun, so, I paid for a course of lessons and went for it, it was fantastic I got to fly! (Well fall) but it still lacked that thrill of controlling an aircraft yourself. After that hang gliding looked good and was reasonably inexpensive so I decided to give it a go, I paid by the day for some lessons at Ashbourne and after a few weeks passed my EPC great! I'm half way to being a pilot, Well a combination of money, weather and work got in the way and I never managed to return, until I recently bumped into this web site MICROLIGHTING sounds and looks good I've seen them flying around in the sky before and always fancied a go, so, sensing my excitement, my wife Jane paid for me to go on a trial flight with Brian, I was hooked, It was what I'd always been looking for and immediately booked my first lesson. I now own my own microlight and am looking forward to getting my licence, but until then I will just keep on enjoying the experience.
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Dave Ruston
Well I use to spend my time fixing jets after the pilots had bust or bent them. Did this for 14 years in the Royal Air Force. Decided that it was about time that I bust or bent um so, I did some lessons in fixed wing flight. Great fun but it soon burns a hole in ones pocket (no not because I bent or bust them either). Then I got a jolly one day in a Microlight and well, what can I say.........I was hooked!!
Been training now since August 2001 and my only regret is that I didn't start it earlier, oh and that I live in Britain where the weather is not always Microlight friendly. Meet some other student and qualified pilots at Phoenix Microlights and they are a great bunch of guys. It's a friendly school with no pressure and focussed on enjoyment. Come and join us all, you won't regret it. |
