Is this one of the Royal BAe 146s?

[eccles]

Crossflow Kid said:

eccles said:

our large ground running portakabin

You did your ground runs in a portakabin? Bit noisy innit?

Stops FOD ingestion and annoying the neighbours.

[speedtwelve]

When Chuck stoofed the 146 in at Islay it was off an instrument approach which was only available to the out of wind runway. Once they became visual, instead of circling to land on the into wind runway he elected to continue with aforementioned tailwind and supersonic groundspeed while the Captain found his seat disappearing progressively further up his arse.

Last time I went into Islay I went over to the fire section to visit the Prince Charles Crash Museum there. Some great pics, and an undercarriage leg if I remember. The lads said that they had a good scoff of all the Prince Food that was offloaded from what was left of the 146 afterwards.

[CobolMan]

Eric Mc said:

Was he a Dan Air pilot?

Certainly was Eric, he went from 1-11 to 146 and back to the 1-11 (left hand seat this time). After DA got 'bought' out by BA he joined Palmair on 146s then Air Bristol (chief pilot on 1-11) before finishing up with Manx which then became a BA offshoot. This was after his stint in the FAA and the several years instructing for CSE at Carlisle.

[cheadle hulme]

Can't believe nobody has posted the "bouncy" London City landing yet.

[Shy Torque]

ExiledTaff said:

Eric Mc said:

Will these be freighter conversions?

I've heard mutterings that they are after a pair of QCs

You've heard correctly.