Things you thought you would do in life, but now won’t
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Always wanted to race and planned on doing so until about a year ago. Still hope but will take a huge amount of compromise from my wife and not sure in those circumstances if I will want to.
Travel with my wife. I go all over the place for work would love to have company one day.
Tour Europe in a Ferrari. Have access to the car just not going to happen. Hoping to do it in mini breaks.
Not sure I will be stress free until I die now.
Travel with my wife. I go all over the place for work would love to have company one day.
Tour Europe in a Ferrari. Have access to the car just not going to happen. Hoping to do it in mini breaks.
Not sure I will be stress free until I die now.
Esceptico said:
nute said:
Fly a passenger jet and move to Scandinavia. Always has aspirations of doing the former as a career but just after i qualified marriage and family got in the way.
Still could do the latter but brexit has made it significantly harder
Given what has happened to the aviation industry with Covid perhaps you dodged a bullet.Still could do the latter but brexit has made it significantly harder
I’ve lived and worked in three countries outside the EU so definitely possible, even if you don’t have a right to go there.
Id quite happily move to Scandinavia but would have to go through the arse ache of trying to get citizenship now instead of just pitching up and buying a house. Friends who have property in the EU but are still UK citizens are finding it a pain in the butt now the rules have changed.
Maximus_Meridius101 said:
Aston Traveller said:
Fly on Concorde
I was fortunate enough to tick that box, twice. It was a bizarre experience in some ways, but the biggest thing I took away from the experience, is that the toilet was rubbish. Well that and the unbelievable quality of the food and drink.That’s akin to treason, isn’t it?
Maximus_Meridius101 said:
I was fortunate enough to tick that box, twice. It was a bizarre experience in some ways, but the biggest thing I took away from the experience, is that the toilet was rubbish. Well that and the unbelievable quality of the food and drink.
Unbelievably good or unbelievably bad?I always wanted to get into display flying, specifically piston warbirds like Spitfires and Mustangs. I did fly with a historic display team for a while, but flying something on a much, much lesser performance level although it was great fun. I then lucked into a job flying a Tiger Moth taking people for 'Irvin leather flying jacket and goggles' vintage flying experiences and hoped on the side the operator had connections to the bigger stuff but it was a dead-end.
There're a few at my regular job that go off to work at Duxford and Sywell at weekends flying everything from Harvards to Vought Corsairs and T9 Spitfires but I've really missed the boat. I'm in my 50s now and it's no secret that the warbird operators are looking for younger talent to come up through the ranks to be entrusted with the machines that fly at Flying Legends. I fly a fun, reasonably high-performance aerobatic aeroplane at work but no longer have the dedication to do a 160 mile round-trip to Duxford at the weekends to do trips in a Tiger or Rapide to try and get noticed and onto the 'ladder' to the meatier stuff. Hats-off to those who do; I know a lot of people that fly 6 or even 7 days a week aiming to get noticed and into the inner circle at The Fighter Collection or Aircraft Restoration Company.
There're a few at my regular job that go off to work at Duxford and Sywell at weekends flying everything from Harvards to Vought Corsairs and T9 Spitfires but I've really missed the boat. I'm in my 50s now and it's no secret that the warbird operators are looking for younger talent to come up through the ranks to be entrusted with the machines that fly at Flying Legends. I fly a fun, reasonably high-performance aerobatic aeroplane at work but no longer have the dedication to do a 160 mile round-trip to Duxford at the weekends to do trips in a Tiger or Rapide to try and get noticed and onto the 'ladder' to the meatier stuff. Hats-off to those who do; I know a lot of people that fly 6 or even 7 days a week aiming to get noticed and into the inner circle at The Fighter Collection or Aircraft Restoration Company.
Edited by speedtwelve on Sunday 13th June 02:37
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