Anthony Bourdain gone.....

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

I could crash an aeroplane into a building. A football stadium, perhaps.

You know I'm a licensed pilot, right?

I think you were a licensed pilot until they found you unconscious in the cockpit of your little Chipmunk, reeking of booze with tell tale white powder coagulations* in your nostrils

*bogies

[Sir C]

I think you were a licensed pilot until they found you unconscious in the cockpit of your little Chipmunk, reeking of booze with tell tale white powder coagulations* in your nostrils

*bogies

What a beautiful thing a Chipmunk is, h! With control forces so perfectly co-ordinated, it really handles like a little fighter.

Do you know why pre-aerobatic checks (HASELL) include the item 'Brakes off'?

[Herbert Augustus Chapman]

What a beautiful thing a Chipmunk is, h! With control forces so perfectly co-ordinated, it really handles like a little fighter.

Do you know why pre-aerobatic checks (HASELL) include the item 'Brakes off'?

Because trying to move off in any contraption, flying or otherwise, with one's brakes still on usually results in a face planter? I'm sure you'll explain in more detail and illustrate the point with a tale or two of derring do in which you laughed in the face of death.

[Sir C]

Because trying to move off in any contraption, flying or otherwise, with one's brakes still on usually results in a face planter? I'm sure you'll explain in more detail and illustrate the point with a tale or two of derring do in which you laughed in the face of death.

Well, it is as you say a fascinating matter. The ground steering system on the Chipmunk involves applying a couple of notches of brake and the using differential braking, but of course with such brakes applied one cannot select full rudder and the Chippy, for all her benign manners, will not recover from a developed spin without full rudder. This item on the RAF checklist became, for some reason, common currency in aeroplanes which have no such brake/rudder issues.

So now you know.

[Peter]

Well, it is as you say a fascinating matter. The ground steering system on the Chipmunk involves applying a couple of notches of brake and the using differential braking, but of course with such brakes applied one cannot select full rudder and the Chippy, for all her benign manners, will not recover from a developed spin without full rudder. This item on the RAF checklist became, for some reason, common currency in aeroplanes which have no such brake/rudder issues.

So now you know.

Taxi to the runway, point her straight and stick yer boot down.

Its hardly rocket science is it....

[Sir C]

Taxi to the runway, point her straight and stick yer boot down.

Its hardly rocket science is it....

Which boot p? Why do you want full rudder as you sit stationary on the runway?

[Peter]

Which boot p? Why do you want full rudder as you sit stationary on the runway?

Stop ****ing about and get her in the air! Pull that thing back or whatever it is you do.

Bloody glorified tube drivers.