Flying makes the country so small

[vanordinaire]

I had a wee excursion on a seaplane at the weekend, first time on a plane that wasn't an international holiday.
We took off from Loch Lomond, headed South towards the Clyde then West out to sea, over some of the Inner Hebrides then back to Loch Lomond. We were only out for around and hour but the trip would have taken days by car and boat, I couldn't believe how much of Scotland we covered. I want to do it again and again. Now looking at some kind of flying as a hobby. What's the best way to start? Microlight of my own or some sort of club/share for something a bit bigger?

[vanordinaire]

Eric Mc said:

What type of seaplane were you in?

Cessna 208

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eharding said:

Make a point of visiting Glenforsa on Mull - hotel right next to the airstrip, fantastic food, run by an aviator (with a recently acquired shiny Stearman parked outside....)

You've just re-enforced my decision to learn to fly. The Glenforsa was my local 30 odd years ago (though I could reach it by motorbike from home back then). I'd love to fly out to Mull and land there. Is that within reach on a microlight from the mainland, or would it need to be a 'real' plane?

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eharding said:

vanordinaire said:

eharding said:

Make a point of visiting Glenforsa on Mull - hotel right next to the airstrip, fantastic food, run by an aviator (with a recently acquired shiny Stearman parked outside....)

You've just re-enforced my decision to learn to fly. The Glenforsa was my local 30 odd years ago (though I could reach it by motorbike from home back then). I'd love to fly out to Mull and land there. Is that within reach on a microlight from the mainland, or would it need to be a 'real' plane?

Not a problem. They get all sorts visiting - from flocks of weight-shifts to the chap with a newly-purchased Turbo-Porter which he was going to fly back to Canada (although struggling to get much more than 100kts out of it...)

Some video of the Glenforsa fly-in last weekend... http://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?

f=1&t=100350

Thanks for that, loved the video, brought back some good memories.
Really like the look of the biplanes in the video.