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By: - 13th July 2011 at 13:26 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Dont think anyone wants to talk about this at the moment they are all too caught up in historic section at the mo.
By: - 13th July 2011 at 13:34 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Shouldn't the thread be in General Aviation anyway? Or possibly Historic. But not here......
By: - 13th July 2011 at 14:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Indeed so.
This isn't where the pilots are to be found.
By: - 13th July 2011 at 15:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Sorry, my mistake.
Perhaps the mods can move it, or if it's duplicating something which has already been commented on, delete it.
By: - 14th July 2011 at 00:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
I'm honestly not totally certain. But I will try and establish it.
In the meantime you may find this an interesting read.
Moggy
By: - 14th July 2011 at 08:23 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Thank you, that seems a pretty comprehensive document.
The section on Display Flying being the most interesting. As the parts preceding that
are mostly concerned with H & S, and risk assessment.
By: - 14th July 2011 at 23:25 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There are no formal qualifications for formation flying, but it will take several hours of good quality training to get up to a good standard and be comfortable with it (I wouldn't go so far as to say relaxed).
Andy Hill at North Weald does quite a few very good formation training sessions, mostly around Yaks and RVs and has a lot of good ex-service coaches who do it mostly for the fun of it.
To get your display authorisation, you have to do a test with one of the senior examiners, like Peter Kinsey. That will set out clearly the limits of what you're allowed to do in front of the paying public. I believe the authorisation lasts for one year from the test.
By: - 14th July 2011 at 23:31 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Ah thanks for that, so you do need to be authorised to display in public.
That's what I was wondering.
I imagine it's those Yaks that are often to be seen flying over Hanningfield ?
By: - 15th July 2011 at 01:45 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
There is a display team as well as the school based at The Weald ISTR
Moggy
By: - 15th July 2011 at 17:52 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Certainly a DA is needed for public events.
As I understand it, it is not needed for private events (i.e. no publicity or paying public) or for the likes of aerobatic competitions
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By: AlanR - 11th July 2011 at 13:42
I wonder if any of the pilots on here can tell me, what qualifications (if any)
are need to be able to take part in public displays when flying in formations ?
I remember one of the Breitling pilots saying on the TV, that it needed a fair
amount of skill, to fly different types of aircraft in a tight formation, as they all
had different characteristics.
I only ask this out of interest, and have no "agenda"