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Flying around the UK.
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Flying around the UK.
My two boys and I are planning to fly around the UK in a four-seater PA28 in 24 days time. This is our route...
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Likewise. You'll be passing right over our house as you head south-west from the Cotswolds (or north-east toward them? It would be a help if you could tell us whether you're travelling clockwise or anti?) Either way, we'll be sure to put the tea on.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Just to confirm you shouldn't fly over my house as I haven't washed the windows
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Lost opportunity. Can you please alter the flight plan to either spell a rude word or at least scribe out a penis and accessories please.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Technically it looks as if you are flying around Great Britain, no Northern Ireland. Why are you making that little loop over and around what looks like Oban?
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Re: Flying around the UK.
anti.bungeejumper wrote:Likewise. You'll be passing right over our house as you head south-west from the Cotswolds (or north-east toward them? It would be a help if you could tell us whether you're travelling clockwise or anti?) Either way, we'll be sure to put the tea on.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
About 23 hours of flying over six days. C.redsturgeon wrote:How long will that take?
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Re: Flying around the UK.
I did suggest it during planning but there was some extra bureaucracy involved with which we couldn't be doing. C.Dod101 wrote:Technically it looks as if you are flying around Great Britain, no Northern Ireland. Why are you making that little loop over and around what looks like Oban?
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Did that over the end of Herne Bay pier once. This is what I ended up drawing...Padders72 wrote:Lost opportunity. Can you please alter the flight plan to either spell a rude word or at least scribe out a penis and accessories please.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
I don't want to spoil the party (it looks an enjoyable trip!), but I wonder if you ever worry about your greenhouse gas emissions?
A quick google and rough sums says your plane uses something of the order of twice as much fuel per mile as our Ford Fiesta (or a bit more?) - which actually doesn't seem too bad. Except that you can do a lot more miles in an hour, making it much easier to emit a lot of CO2. I may have my back-of-envelope sums wrong, but I reckon you emit something of the order of 100kg/hour, whereas our car produces maybe 10-15kg per hour.
On the other hand, that means your plane does about the same CO2/mile as our camper van, so I should not feel too smug. I do often feel guilty driving that! Though we cover very few miles with it annually.
A quick google and rough sums says your plane uses something of the order of twice as much fuel per mile as our Ford Fiesta (or a bit more?) - which actually doesn't seem too bad. Except that you can do a lot more miles in an hour, making it much easier to emit a lot of CO2. I may have my back-of-envelope sums wrong, but I reckon you emit something of the order of 100kg/hour, whereas our car produces maybe 10-15kg per hour.
On the other hand, that means your plane does about the same CO2/mile as our camper van, so I should not feel too smug. I do often feel guilty driving that! Though we cover very few miles with it annually.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Midsmartin wrote:I don't want to spoil the party (it looks an enjoyable trip!), but I wonder if you ever worry about your greenhouse gas emissions?
A quick google and rough sums says your plane uses something of the order of twice as much fuel per mile as our Ford Fiesta (or a bit more?) - which actually doesn't seem too bad. Except that you can do a lot more miles in an hour, making it much easier to emit a lot of CO2. I may have my back-of-envelope sums wrong, but I reckon you emit something of the order of 100kg/hour, whereas our car produces maybe 10-15kg per hour.
On the other hand, that means your plane does about the same CO2/mile as our camper van, so I should not feel too smug. I do often feel guilty driving that! Though we cover very few miles with it annually.
there have been so few flights in the last 18 months or so that I doubt that this trip will do much harm.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Dod101 wrote:there have been so few flights in the last 18 months or so that I doubt that this trip will do much harm.
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None of us do much harm to the climate over our lifetimes. A transatlantic jumbo won't do much harm on a single trip. But the accumulation of lots of individual "not much harm" becomes a lot of harm globally.
It's tough to decide what is or is not advisable. But until each individual considers their own lifestyle and makes suitable changes, climate change will continue apace
doolally
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Re: Flying around the UK.
What are the map dots? Airfields/beacons? Other?
You may be flying over my house, difficult to tell. I'm about 15 miles NNW of RAF Odiham (beware the Chinooks...)
You may be flying over my house, difficult to tell. I'm about 15 miles NNW of RAF Odiham (beware the Chinooks...)
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Midsmartin wrote:I don't want to spoil the party (it looks an enjoyable trip!), but I wonder if you ever worry about your greenhouse gas emissions?
A quick google and rough sums says your plane uses something of the order of twice as much fuel per mile as our Ford Fiesta (or a bit more?) - which actually doesn't seem too bad. Except that you can do a lot more miles in an hour, making it much easier to emit a lot of CO2. I may have my back-of-envelope sums wrong, but I reckon you emit something of the order of 100kg/hour, whereas our car produces maybe 10-15kg per hour.
On the other hand, that means your plane does about the same CO2/mile as our camper van, so I should not feel too smug. I do often feel guilty driving that! Though we cover very few miles with it annually.
But your fiesta will actually burn even more as you will be stuck on the M1 stop starting at 1mph for most of it. Maybe he can spot you a better route and offset some emissions
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Re: Flying around the UK.
Dod101 wrote:Why are you making that little loop over and around what looks like Oban?
Looks like a circuit of the Isle of Mull.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
doolally wrote:It's tough to decide what is or is not advisable. But until each individual considers their own lifestyle and makes suitable changes, climate change will continue apace
doolally
Indeed, everything has an impact. I read somewhere[1] that the energy used by people making Climate Change related tangential posts on newsgroups is enough to power a city the size of Liverpool
We only need to stop doing 1 thing to save the planet - breeding. Anyone with 2 children is doing nothing to reduce emissions long term, more than that and you're a polluter in perpetuity. The population of the planet has more than doubled in my lifetime, That explains half the emissions increase since the 1960s.
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[1] I think it was on here, about 20 seconds ago
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Re: Flying around the UK.
DrFfybes wrote: Anyone with 2 children is doing nothing to reduce emissions long term, more than that and you're a polluter in perpetuity.
Sorry.
I've been trying to work out which of my three should go, unfortunately Mrs DM and I can't agree.
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Re: Flying around the UK.
doolally wrote:Dod101 wrote:there have been so few flights in the last 18 months or so that I doubt that this trip will do much harm.
Dod
None of us do much harm to the climate over our lifetimes. A transatlantic jumbo won't do much harm on a single trip. But the accumulation of lots of individual "not much harm" becomes a lot of harm globally.
It's tough to decide what is or is not advisable. But until each individual considers their own lifestyle and makes suitable changes, climate change will continue apace
doolally
Thank you so much. Yes I know that.
Dod
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