What is your favourite part of a flight?

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What is your favourite part of a flight?

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Just curious about what people enjoy most about flying - what do you enjoy most? Takeoff? Skimming along the top of the clouds? Breaking out at minimums? Landing in a strong crosswind, or on a short runway? Unusual attitudes? What challenges intrigue you most and give you most satisfaction about your performance on a given trip?
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I like flying approaches and landing the best. Whether it's strokin it on smooth after the ILS or canceling and scudding in to put it down and slam in the reverse on a short gravel strip. I like flying approaches and landing the best.
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Post by Rudderless »

I agree. There's a feeling of accomplishment that a lot of people don't have in their jobs, and it is directly attributable to you personally when it all works out.
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Takeoff. It's the beginning of good things to come. :smt051
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Getting paid.
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Approaching at a high altitude. Using that side slip to lose altitude...
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Here in Brazil, the best part of the flight by far, is
.....the lay over.....
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Post by disengage »

Have to Agree with most on this one...approaches and landings
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1. Busting though a high over cast layer at dusk or dawn and cruising 200 ft above it

2. Landing after an NDB approach to mins

3. Hearing "your callsign", Contact Palm Beach Approach on 124.6 in January
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has to be the landing
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After weeks of flying in the Sahara you are on the way back to Europe and finally contacting Las Palmas terminal you push the ident botton and hear a spanish accent woman controller say " you are radar identified ".

Sort of like returning to earth after being on another planet for weeks.
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Landing
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Post by Glory. »

oh how I cry for you fixed wingers :P

Hovering, by far, is the best sensation

that and hitting transitional lift, banking and hearing the blades slap

In short, Helicopters are by far the best :P :lol:
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Post by mikegtzg »

GLORY wrote:
oh how I cry for you fixed wingers

Hovering, by far, is the best sensation
Well it can almost be done. I've had 5 mph GS in slow flight in a good wind. Almost hovering...(was actually trying to go backwards but no such luck)
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Best part of the flight

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By far the best part of flying has to be the initial descent at high speed into the tops of an overcast layer, preferably with some ACC embedded. the sun has to be out and the angel on the top of the clouds. either that or popping out on top of a layer of fog covering the lower mainland. all mountains visible and nothing below. 8)

beats flying a desk any day.
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Any flight which I don't have to take students or passengers with me. :)
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Leaving the airport property so I don't have to listen to all the experts!
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Post by 767 »

Golden Flyer wrote:Approaching at a high altitude. Using that side slip to lose altitude...
you use a foward slip--- full rudder and adjust aileron to prevent turning.. and yes, its opposite rudder and aileron. and dont forget, THROTTLE IDLE.

a sideslip is used to cope with crosswind landing, not losing altitude rapidly....


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Post by Pilot_adam »

My favourite part which I have not got to do in real life is an ILS landing in real IMC conditions.

Can't wait for the IFR rating. Flight sim is ok for now !!!!

For now I would say a cross wind landing.

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Post by Justwannafly »

The Mile High part :P

accualy the skimming on top of clouds...just some of the amazing sights I see when I'm up there...thats the best part for me...
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