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Hi Flyers

A Warm Welcome to the December 2010 edition of the Tayside Flyer.

We trust you have enjoyed a successful year flying to those places you’ve always wanted to. Well done if you have passed your Pilots Li-cense or best of luck if you are flight training with Tayside, it may seem a long road but its definitely worth it once you pass & take to the skies on your own ! I hope you enjoyed all the Aviation Talk nights at Dundee & I would personally like to thank Jim Watt, Colin Roger & Stewart Webb for their fantastic Presentations & for donating their valuable time to aid bet-ter airmanship. & also a Big thanks to all who attended, & we want to see you all at more Talk nights and club events next year !

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A PROSPEROUS

NEW YEAR FROM EVERYONE AT TAYSIDE FLYING CLUB & TAY-

SIDE AVIATION.

You have control…. Drew Dudgeon

Friday 24th December - Open until 3pm

Saturday 25th December - Christmas Day - Closed

Sunday 26th December - Boxing Day - Closed

Normal opening hours for the remainder of the week….

Friday 31st December - Hogmanay - Open until 3pm

Saturday 1st January 2011 - New Years Day - Closed

Sunday 2nd January 2011 - Closed All Day

Normal opening hours for the remainder of the week….

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Tayside Flying Club Membership £ 48.00

Insurance Waiver £ 50.00

Total £ 98.00

The above fee will allow membership of Tayside Flying Club for 1 year.

Insurance Waiver has increased £10 from last year.

Can All new & current members complete a Membership form & hand into the Ops desk with the above fee.

The current Gold Card scheme will No longer be operational as of the end of December 2010. Anyone currently on this scheme will need to Can-cel any Direct Debits with your Bank by the end of December 2010. Nor-

mal rates for aircraft Hire apply at the start of January 2011.

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All Flight Training Equipment can be purchased from the Op-

erations Desk

Need a New Map ?

The Ops desk have all the latest Maps of Scot-land & the UK for Sale.

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When was the last time you planned a Diversion whilst Pilot in Command? Has it been a while, have you forgotten or maybe a bit rusty of what’s in-volved? Help is at hand ….!

A Diversion talk Night & Presentation will be held at Tayside Flying club on Thursday 16th December at 6.30pm.

This Talk night is hosted by Jim Watt and will concentrate on, How to com-plete an In-flight Diversion, the manner in how its planned, and how to get that ETA spot on. This isn't a test or anything like that, it’s a presentation that will benefit all pilots of various experience who have perhaps forgotten the steps involved…... Everyone Welcome,

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Don’t Panic - This isn't one of those Reality Tv game shows where the contest-ants are aiming for ultimate fame & fortune whilst also not wanting to get their blonde curls messed up by the Jungle. But the Theme is interesting. By that I’ll take you on a journey down memory lane…..

For a variety of different reasons, you thought of taking a Trial flight at Tayside Aviation, spent an hour with an Instructor flying around the local area whilst be-ing in awe of the breathtaking scenery of your homeland from an entirely differ-ent perspective, and you probably thought to yourself, “I want to do that”, then you got Hooked on the entire Flying affair. & signed up for Lessons…. Does that sound familiar?

The coming months saw you in the club every weekend talking to Pilots and squeezing every bit of information from them in the hope that you’d learn every-thing you can. You then read every book by Trevor Thom, and put all those the-ories into practice during your flight training with your trusty Instructor.

Eventually the day would come when you had completed your Cross country, Diversions, stalls, steep turns etc and I hasten to add confident Landings, & you were told that you were ready to take your Flight Test with an examiner ! After many a sleepless night before the Test the day would dawn when you’d go to the club, take to the wild Blue Yonder and show your skills to the examiner. You’d then do a multitude of landings and then go into the briefing room and get asked questions relating to everything ranging from Stall speeds to Who shot JFK? Then, just when you thought you were about to be sent to Stalag 13 for impersonating a Pilot, you would hear those unforgettable words, “Well Done, you’ve passed, Your now a Pilot”.

So now your wondering where is this story going ? Read on MacDuff…….

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So you‘ve now gained entry into that elite club of Pilotry, but where do you go from here ? Most people firstly take to the skies around the local area and ac-climatise their skills with their aircraft. Then a list will appear of friends, family, Romans and that guy who sat behind you in the geography class at secondary school - all wanting you to take them flying around Scotland ! Once you have satisfied their flying needs you are now ready to progress onto your own per-sonal crusade of ‘I’m a Pilot - Get me out of here’ & boldly flying where you have never flown before, further afield & landing at a different airport !

So what’ s involved? Map of the local area is a good start, so is the Pooleys or AFE VFR Flight guide to give you essential information of all the airfields in the Uk. Its also worth asking advice from members of the Flying club, people that have many hours in their Logbooks that can give you invaluable tips & advice on how to get there and back Safely. Never underestimate the importance of the ever changing weather conditions in the Uk, it is usually totally different at the destination airfield as to that at Dundee. Pre-flight planning is the key !

So what if you have the equipment, the License & the sunglasses, is that all that’s required to make this monumental journey, or could there be one missing ingredient? For those of you who agree there could be a pinch to add to the flavour then give yourself a large pat on the back or a large Glenmorangie !

Its not a necessity, nor is it essential but, if you can have an experienced Crew to accompany you on the flight, then you’ll learn more, go further, cost less, and you’ll learn to share the workload both on the ground and in the air - which in the long term will make you a more confident pilot. Or if you’re an experienced Pilot I’m sure you’ll still appreciate the camaraderie & expertise of having a few wingmen to share your journey...

The task involved with Flying around the Scottish Highlands & islands shouldn’t be taken lightly, weather can be sunny turning to snow, ranging from light winds to up draughts, and turbulence coming from the valleys. These factors can be tricky to negotiate but not beyond the new pilots abilities & definitely worthwhile as you need to experience different conditions to expand your horizons & gain knowledge how to deal with different situations. Its therefore necessary for the new PPL to take into consideration all the factors that may or may not occur when flight planning to a new airfield

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However, flying around Scotland is pleasurable to a different High & the scen-ery is absolutely fantastic. Having a crew does make the difference & a shared workload makes it more pleasurable for everyone onboard. By this I mean the Pilot has total command and makes ultimate decisions / map reads & flies the aircraft, 2nd crew person makes all the Radio calls - whilst also map reading & double checks gauges, & the 3rd crew member map reads and everyone keeps a good look-out for other aircraft or potential hazards. This in no way deflects the responsibility of the Pilot in Command, but it can help boost your confi-dence as a Pilot & allow you to become more capable of cockpit responsibilities whether your PIC or as an onboard passenger. The message should be clear, Readability 5 - ‘I’m a Pilot, Get me out of here’ …. So go & hire a Grob or a Warrior, assemble your crew to explore the Uk, remember that ‘every flights a

lesson’ & enjoy the thrill ! Drew Dudgeon

A Tayside Crew

Sandy Farquhar Drew Dudgeon

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Congratulations to Allan Penny who passed his Instructor rating in September !

We would also like to Congratulate Steve Murphy, Barry Lyall and Andrea Marco who were all successful in gaining employment as First Officers with Loganair in October. We’d like thank them for their enthusiasm & commitment as Instructors at Tayside and wish them every success with their future career’s at Loganair. Well Done !

Congratulations & best wishes to John Punteney – who started full time a few months ago, but is leaving to go to EasyJet in January. All the best !

Bruce Gray now starts Instructing Full time … well done !

We’d also like to welcome some new Instructors to the Tayside team; We’d also like to welcome some new Instructors to the Tayside team;

Reg Varney, James Workman, Neema Soni & Chris Woodman, hope you all enjoy your position as instructor & Fly Our Way at Tayside !

I’ve managed to find some history on Chris, hope he doesn't mind the Eamonn An-drews introduction : Chris Woodman has worked for several Airlines including the CAA as a regulator. Following a career in the RAF Chris flew with Dan Air and numer-ous types including Boeing 757/767, Airbus A318-321, Airbus A330, Bae 146, BAC 1-11, HS748, King Airs plus numerous smaller types.

The Current Tayside team is worthy of a mention, they are all damn fine chaps & gals and excellent Instructors; Liz Weinstein

Andy Swiffin Bruce Gray James Workman Tim Humphrey

George Leckie Allan Penny Chris Woodman Neema Soni

John Punteney Euan Patrick Reg Varney Martin West

Marjan Bledowski Jim Watt Ian Weinstein Pete Anderson

In spring of 2005 I was alerted to the fact that the Royal Navy was merging their elementary flight training with the other services and that they were sell-ing off some of the Grob herons. They were being sold off by an agent at Oaksey Park Airfield in the Cotswolds. I decided to investigate further & mounted up the TB10 and flew down to see them. There were 4 shiny Grob 115s all good to go with a spare engine and some parts. Too good an oppor-tunity to miss so 2 weeks later and another TB10 flight saw the deal done and we were proud owners of 4 Grobs.

After some time operating these we realised that to operate 4 you really need 5 and there had been 5 in the batch but we discovered one had been sold to Germany. We tracked this down, which was then registered as D-EASR and made an of-fer to buy it. It was arranged to pick this up in Min-delheim in Germany. We tasked Stuart Webb & another PPL to fly to Munich with Ryanair to pick up the Grob and bring it back to Dundee. Howev-

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I was up a ladder at Fife airport fixing on a new windsock when I got a call from Stuart saying they were abandoning the mission and returning by train. My first question was “where the hell is Nancy” ?

Over the next 48 hours I organised a rescue mission to go and collect it. I re-

cruited the help of Claes from Denmark ( one of our FIs at Fife ) so together we

took off from Fife in the Piper Arrow on the mission. The plan was to route down

the east coast to Bigginhill, but south of Newcastle the passing front carrying

snow started to fall back and we were forced to traverse the country over to the

Liverpool area then head south from there.

It became clear that the weather on the east was not working so we diverted to

Gloucestershire airport. With darkness setting in and the weather getting nasty,

it was challenging as we got chased by each snow storm. Especially when

ATC said “caution high ground to the south of our position at 800 feet “. Well I

knew that as I could see it level with the right wing tip and the altimeter read

850 feet. Now dark, I gave control to Claes and quickly flashed up a portable

GPS and vectored Claes into Gloucestershire Airport.

It was a welcoming site to see the runway lights but then came the call, at cross wind and slightly favouring the other runway. We said no thanks we’ll take the one we can see and landed safely.

In the taxi to the travel lodge the traffic was queuing to dead slow as the first fall of snow in years dropped on England.

The next morning we picked up some French charts & brushed off 2 inches of snow off the Arrow. However, it was a perfect morning, blue sky above & we felt good at cheating death for the first time on this trip. We flew down to the south coast and along the coast to pass Brighton with perfect flying con-ditions. Over the channel we tracked in on the Boulogne VOR then down deep into France passing abeam Paris by about 60 miles.

After 3 hours of flight time, deteriorating weather was forcing us down, just at the point when the hills started to come up - not good ! We had 30 minutes to run and we were now down to 500 feet tracking the river which would lead to Nancy. Next dilemma, there were 4 airfields at Nancy ‘which one’ ? So we pitched for the one to the south west of the city, Nancy Essey. In my last phone conversation with Stewart, he said the Ibis hotel is central and good if we needed to stay over. As we arrived over the town and still follow-ing the river, we banked around the bend in the river as we looked into the 6th floor of the Ibis, “that’ll be the hotel then Claes”.

We turned onto finals and dropped the landing gear but we didn’t get three greens….. “shit”. Deciding on a ‘go around’ we figured the problem was simply the brightness dimmer switch was set to low as we landed the night before in the dark. On landing we had to ask what seemed a stupid question “Do you have a Grob 115 here"? Wee Wee they said, my reply was well yes it’s been a 3

hour 40 minute flight but do you have a Grob? yes they did….

We stayed the night in Nancy planning to run the gauntlet in the morning. The weather was typical December and we had a small window to get back to the UK before snow would lock France in for VFR for some three weeks. Nancy is a lovely place and at that time very Christmassy looking.

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We flight planned and got to the airfield 0600 planning to fly at first light. We took off at 0745 into a misty morning with light winds. I took off first, flying in the Grob and Claes caught me up when we levelled off at 4,000 feet. From just south of Lille I called Claes on our second frequency to say “white cliffs in our 2 o clock. There was the English coastline showing up over 60 miles away and that sight was very comforting.

We landed at Lydd to clear customs after 2 hours 25 minutes of flying in for-mation. North of Humberside we hit a brick wall of weather and had to turn back to divert to Humberside Airport. Another taxi ride to a B & B in the rain. The following day we had to leave the Grob at Humberside and fly back to Dundee IFR. I returned a few days later and flew the Grob back to Dundee on the 5th December 2005.

The Grob now a part of the Fleet & Total trip: 13 hrs 20 minutes flight time in

4 days of flying 1,300 Nautical Miles.

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The 1st Fly-out of the New Year will be to Eshott on Monday 3rd January 2011, 10am departure.

Intentions are to Fly down to Eshott, relax & have a cup-pa, weather permitting fly to Carlisle - re-fuel & then have another cuppa before Flying back to Dundee.

If you are interested in coming along then book an air-craft of your choice at the Ops desk and put your name on the Notice-board. We will try and accommodate any-one coming along as a passenger, dependant on how many aircraft are going on the day.

If the weather is too bad to fly to Eshott, the contingency is either Oban or Inverness…. Hope you can come along and enjoy the 1st flight of the New Year !

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An IMC talk night is to be held at Tayside Flying club on

Wednesday 19th January at 6.30pm.

What does IMC stand for? Who does it apply to ? What ’s involved ?

Jim Watt will be hosting a Presentation talk night on IMC and will be prac-ticing the fundamentals in the SIM ! This is sure to be a fantastic, exciting & informative evening, so please come along….

Everyone Welcome…..

“Its Christmas time, there’s no need to be afraid”

As you will no doubt have noticed, Winter has certainly arrived with a vengeance & the snow has been full on and Christmas card like. But what difference does this make to our flying? Can we fly, should we fly, is it dangerous to fly? The an-swer lies with the PIC & the decision should always be based on safety. Before setting off into the great blue yonder give some consideration to these points, it may help you to decide on your way?

When the snow & weathers too bad and you cant see - don't fly ! That’s the easy point made… the rest are common sense & good points in flight planning & preparation.

Call the airfield before leaving home, if the weathers too bad it might be closed?

Pre-Flight checks - these are more vital in winter conditions than ever before, make sure you take your time to complete All checks & watch out for those slips & falls that are so easy to do when completing checks around the aircraft.

Ice On Prop - Close Inspection required.

Water in the fuel tanks - always drain fuel from the tanks into a tester tube & check for water in the tanks. Also check that fuel vents are unblocked.

Ice / Frost / Snow - Must be entirely cleared off the aircraft, especially the Wings. Ice has a detrimental effect on flight controls which may become very heavy, or not work at all. Tayside provide de-icing fluid which can assist in clear-ing ice, but ensure that you make time to sweep snow off the aircraft & remove any ice from all area’s / surfaces / vents by any means necessary.

Pitot-Static Systems / Inlets / Vents / elevator controls - ensure that the pitot & static sources are free of contaminants, any covers removed, Vents and ele-vator controls & free of damage, ice, frost & are operational.

Wheels - remove any mud or slush from wheel spats & fairings. This can cre-ate extra weight and cause a ‘braking effect’ on the aircraft.

Battery - Cold freezing conditions can drain a battery, make sure the battery is both charged & also charging when in use.

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Washing the Aircraft - is always a good idea as it takes away any extra weight caused by mud and slush. But don't wash the aircraft in freezing temperatures as the water will freeze vital moveable components.

Keep Dry - if you are wet, your body and feet will get very cold when you fly at altitude, which may result in the early stages of Hypothermia. This isn’t good when your airborne and you have the unenviable task of making a safe landing ! Make sure you have dry clothes to change into before flying.

Clear Cabin Windows - always have a clean dry duster handy to clear windows as warm bodies / damp clothing can create misting on the windows. Also use the demister on the aircraft to clear windows.

De-Icing systems - depending on what aircraft your using you maybe have De-icing system installed which should be used to great effect.

Priming - should always be used before engine start but be careful not to over prime, & ensure the primer is closed after engine start.

Warm up - the aircraft before you commence taxi to the apron. Keep a regular monitor on T’s & P’s and check Flight controls are operational and not heavy or sluggish.

Before you leave - Let the Ops desk know where your flying to .. Its safer to let people know your intended route & destination !

Taxiing - make sure the brakes, steering & flight controls are operational. Keep a good look-out for ice on the tarmac & don't brake heavily or you may put the aircraft into an uncontrollable skid. Maintain a vigilant check on the upper wing surface as snow & ice will substantially reduce lift and increase weight which is not the best attribute when taking off !

RT - Check with ATC that the runway has been de-iced & usable? Check en-route that the destination airfield is operational & free from snow / ice…

Take Off - monitor engine gauges, keep an eye open for ice on runway, & watch out for other aircraft on the taxi way or runway that may be there unexpectedly through braking issues due to ice problems. During climb out pay particular at-tention to temperature gauges.

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Departure weather - En route weather - Destination weather - should be checked and re-checked continually & always have a Plan B as you may have to Divert to another airfield if the destination cloud base is too low / weather ahead is too bad to continue your flight.

In Flight Entertainment - should consist of constant cockpit checks of T’s & P’s, Engine instruments for loss of RPM, Flight Controls being sluggish, & keep an eye out for ice forming on the wings / aircraft, & keep visual for other Aircraft too!

Carburettor heat - should be applied more regularly during icy conditions. Any-one who attended Jim Watts presentation will know only too well the importance of Carb Icing during Hot or Cold temperatures. (see chart )

If induction icing is present and Carb heat is applied for 20 secs or more, the engine may continue to run roughly for a short time as the ice melts & is ingested.

Full Carb heat should be applied before & during re-duced power descents to prevent venture icing ( caused by the reduced throttle butterfly settings involved ).

Engine warming - should be done periodically with gradual application of pow-er if the descent is to be a prolonged one.

Navigation - is more than tricky when familiar landmarks are masked by snow. Although the cockpit workload will be higher than normal, the constant checking of maps and the relaying position reports is good practice of airmanship.

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Landing - wet surfaces increase the distance of the landing run. Its therefore beneficial to prepare for the landing set-up configuration and nail the correct speed to ensure minimum landing distance. If its icy then once you land its best practice Not to apply full pressure when braking but better to use intermittent brake pressure. If snow or ice is present on the runway then consider a Go-around or possibly Divert to another airfield?

Hangers - should be used for aircraft storage if freezing weather is forecast. If the Hangers are full then use the protective covers provided to put over the air-craft and use tie downs to secure the aircraft.

Aircraft Kit - each Aircraft has a First aid kit inside, but its also handy to have warm clothes and a spare mobile phone in the flight bag.

Winter flying is one of the most enjoyable times on the flying calendar & person-ally I love to see the landscape in such a different perspective.

Embrace the challenge, be safe & enjoy the flight

Happy Winter flying…. Drew Dudgeon

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Two eager hunters from Manchester chartered a small plane to fly them around Canada to hunt moose, & during their adventure they managed to bag six.

As they were loading the plane to return from the wilds , the pilot said the plane could take only four moose. The two lads objected strongly. 'Last year we shot six. The pilot let us take them all, and he had the same plane as yours'. Reluctantly, the pilot gave in and all six were loaded.

However, even on full power, the little plane couldn't handle the load and went down.

Somehow, surrounded by the moose bodies, Nigel and Geoff survived the crash.

After climbing out of the wreckage, Geoff asked Nigel, 'Any idea where we are?' Nigel replied, 'I think we're pretty close to where we crashed last year'. ==========================================================

A veteran Polish Spitfire pilot from WW2 was interviewed on the BBC. BBC: Were you ever shot down during air combat? Pole: Oh yes, a Fokker once shot my Spitfire to shreds, but I bailed out, and lived on to fight another day.. BBC: Was it a Focke-Wulf 190, one of the best German fighters ever pro-duced?

Pole: Hell no, this Fokker was a Messersmidt…..

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An Airline Placement Partnership has been launched in Scotland between two major players in the aviation industry – Tayside Aviation and Loganair.

Loganair have routinely used Tayside Aviations’ facilities and flight simulator to carry out their pilot selection process for jobs with Loganair and for their holding pool. Both companies have now formalised and developed this partnership. Dave Rubery, Fleet Manager for Loganair states,“ Tayside Aviations’ profes-sional training standards continue to produce the calibre of pilot needed for the Loganair environment. The facilities at Tayside are first class, including their Al-sim AL200 MCC simulator. We are delighted to formalise this partnership and look forward to working with Tayside to help identify and nurture our future Lo-ganair pilots.”

Pilots working with Tayside Aviation will, if successful at these selections, go to Sweden to be type-rated on the SAAB 340 on secondment to Loganair. Pilots would then return to Tayside Aviation to continue working as an Instructor until jobs come along. The main advantage is that four pilots at a time are type rated on the SAAB but it means that Loganair can employ the First Officers as and when a job pops up singly rather than four at a time. Essentially Tayside offers a “Working Pool” which keeps the candidates actively flying and Loganair will offer jump seat flights to help with currency.

Jim Watt, Managing Director of Tayside Aviation said “We train pilots to fly in UK for UK conditions and we culture students and our Instructors towards flying in these demanding conditions. We already have an excellent working relation-ship with Loganair and we look forward to developing this further with this excit-ing new initiative. We are also delighted that we are helping to place our stu-dents and instructors on the first step towards their career as an airline pilot”.

The first Personnel Recovery Centre, Mark Wright House was opened in Edinburgh in August, 2009 in a dedicated wing of the Erskine Home in Edinburgh. This is the prototype for this type of unit which is set up to assist the wounded injured and long term sick personnel to return to duty or adapt for a return to civilian life.

The unit is named after Corporal Mark William Wright (George Cross) of the 3rd Battalion of The Para-chute Regiment who was awarded the George Cross for his bravery on 6th September, 2006, in Kajaki, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. He entered a minefield in an extraordinary attempt to save the lives of critically injured soldiers, sadly losing his life during the incident.

Erskine owns the Centre in Edinburgh and Help for Heroes pay for the lease and services while it is manned by Army personnel.

The staff currently exists of: Officer Commanding Major Gary Tait MBE 2nd In Command Captain Fraser Dowling, SO3 Clinical Governance Captain Teresa Bramley Cen-tre Sergeant Major Warrant Officer Class 2 Alex Meek, Chief Clerk Sergeant Margaret Mackie

The Unit has 12 residents who have individual rooms and has a further 15 who are still in barracks but attend daily. Not all of these are Scottish or males, two of the current residents are English and the cen-tre has previously had a female patient. There is a full military program each day overseen by Sergeant Major Meek (who is anything but) and personnel receive further educational training to help their job pro-spects should they have to return to civilian life.

Further requirements

Since visiting Mark Wright House we have found out that while a full military program and medical assis-tance is provided for the troops, there is no money allocated for other activities. Due to their injuries the residents can no longer take part in sports like football or rugby so we are looking for alternative activi-ties for them. We are currently fund raising for this and we are looking for some assistance in identifying activities at either a reduced cost or preferably free.

We are actively raising money and have taken it on ourselves to put a list together of organizations, companies or individuals who are willing to help provide activities so we can pass this onto Mark Wright House. The whole of Britain is looking at this unit for the way forward so let’s get behind it and give what assistance we can.

How you can help

Having spoken to one of your members Pete Toms, he suggested that you may be able to help in putting together something for the boys as he said he would quite happily take someone up with him and some other members may do the same? As I said above we are just trying to assist Mark Wright house make up a list of possibilities so we can pass contact details onto them so any help would be much appreciated.

Editors note: I for one will gladly help in any way I can, & take a few people from The Mark Wright House up for some flights around the area / show them around the Clubhouse, Hangers etc… and maybe lunch ? I think it would be a generous & fitting tribute if we could All spend some flying time, I’m sure they would really appreciate it.

If you are interested in helping out in any way you can then please drop me an e-mail either through the Secretary or Newsletter link on the Website. Your help would really be appreciated.

Drew Dudgeon.

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The Winter months may have kept your wings on the ground more than you would have hoped for, but, Do not despair, You can still take to the Air, when the weathers not Fair. Dundee has a state of the art Citation simulator that’s simply amazing for all pilots who want to practice their avi-ation skills from Take-off / Navigation / Engine failure / to landing tech-niques at a host of European airports.

Or if you want to use it for fun and test your skills against one of your work colleagues then come on board ! It definitely looks and feels like flying a jet and the best part its only £55 for a full hour on the jet plus an ILS, Rnav brief.

You can book the Sim at the Ops desk & enjoy the thrill of the Sim any time during the week or weekends or why not book an evening slot if that suits you better ? Your absolutely Guaranteed to love this experience !

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The Annual General Meeting of Tayside Flying club will be held at the Dundee Flying Club on Tuesday 15th February at 6.30pm.

This meeting will discuss any changes that affect the Flying club, New pro-posals, Expenditure for the year, New appointees to the Committee, any resignations from the Committee, and any matters that Club Members may want to raise ?

This is Your Flying club, if you feel passionate about Our club as I do & want an input to its future direction, then please come along to this meeting & have your say on any relevant points…

Everyone Welcome…..

Wings and Things

W h a t ’ s b e e n G o i n g o n i n o r A r o u n d

T a y s i d e A v i a t i o n / C l u b h o u s e

Things are hotting up in the commercial pilot market with all airlines hiring . So if you have ever thought of becoming a commercial pilot or Instructor , now is a really good time.

Night Rating Ground school briefing commenced in the 1st week of October. Anyone interested in obtaining Flight Training for this Rating can enquire at the Ops desk to book available dates.

The New Fuel Browser is nearing completion & is located next to the Hanger that houses the Grob Fleet. When fully operational ( before Christmas ) fuel can be directly obtained from Tayside Aviation !

We have issued Tayside Flying Club membership cards for the past few years. The Committee has decided to stop the issue of TFC cards and recommend the use of AOPA Membership which has a range of benefits including; Legal & Medical advice, Fuel discount in the Channel Islands, Aircrew Photo card. Aopa exists to serve the interests of its members & promote the economy, safety, utility & popularity of flight in General Aviation. It currently boasts 400 000 members from over 50 countries.

Joining Details & prices can be found on the Internet , forms are also available in the clubhouse : http://www.aopa.co.uk/

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The Grobs have recently had a new Motif etched on the tail, it Depicts a Runway with the initials TA - and looks pretty good too !

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It is the intention of the Flying Club that we will invite ex-servicemen ( Help for Heroes-Condor ) who have been injured as a result of war, to come along to the Dundee club and be taken for a flight and shown around the club and maybe have some lunch. This event will take place sometime in the new Year & I’ll keep you posted as to time & date.

We are also hosting another similar day activity for the Mark Wright House:

The letter from the Mark Wright House ( page 21) who care for Serviceman who have been injured during active service needs your help. They don't want money or contributions, all they need is a few hours of your time to take some Servicemen Flying around the area. Now if you intend to go flying anyway, why not do a noble deed and make someone’s day by taking them up with you and showing them their homeland from the air. I’m totally committed to helping these people out…. So please e-mail me if you want to join in the fun.

Both the articles listed above will rely on your participation, involvement and time. If you can afford to spend time showing people around the club or better still in the air, then please contact me as we need volunteers to achieve these two days. Dates still to be confirmed, but please get involved if you can.

If your flying over water then you Must wear a Life Preserver. The Flying Clubs Life preservers is now held by the Ops desk & can be used for Free !

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Diary Dates

Thursday 16th December - Diversion Talk Night @ 6.30pm

Monday 3rd January 2011-Fly-out to Eshott 10am.

Wednesday 19th January - IMC / Sim Talk Night @ 6.30pm

Tuesday 15th February - AGM @ 6.30PM

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Tayside Aviation have introduced an exciting new Website which has a host of new up-dates, photo’s and even an online shop - and can be viewed on www.taysideaviation.co.uk

The AGM is fast approaching on Tuesday 15th February at 6.30pm. Every-one welcome & we’d appreciate a high turnout for this event.

All new amendments will be kept in the Flying Order book, please make time to read all inclusions & understand them as it may affect your flying in the air or on the ground. Once you have read and understood all updates please sign your name in the Flying Order Book.

The Tayside Flyer can now be located on the TFC website in spectacular colour. We wont be posting out black and white photocopies as we think you’ll enjoy it more by viewing it on the website. But if you really prefer a black & white paper copy then please drop me a line and I’ll post one out to you.

So there we have it, the latest news edition of all things Tayside Flying Club. Hope you enjoy the new look Flyer and its content - if you want to tell me about your flying trip then please e-mail me via the ‘Newsletter or Secretary’ link on the website.

You have control…… Drew Dudgeon

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year

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