English for Pilots

06/04/2026

A Happy and Hope-filled Easter to all my friends and loved ones. Flying Weather today and this week- finally. Here are some snapshots of our Easter Flyout. Blue skies and happy landings to all!

15/03/2026

Finally airborne again!

15/03/2026

Back in the air again after two months of poor weather and much work. Trading my wings for my hiking boots today, as we are on our way to Porto to begin this year‘s Camino along the Atlantic coast to the Spanish border. Blue skies and happy landings to all!

28/12/2025

After almost three months grounded due to fog or rain, I was finally back in the air again yesterday. Enjoy the pictures from start to finish. More blue skies and happy landings for y‘all in the coming year!

24/12/2025

Good health and good cheer,
Now at Christmas and in the New Year!
Blue skies and happy landings,
To all my loved ones and friends!

06/01/2025

Finally in the air again! Happy New Year to all my friends and loved ones. Blue Skies and Happy Landings wherever you are.

24/12/2024

My wishes for you and yours for Christmas and the New Year:

1) Blue skies, even if they are grey.
2) Happy landings no matter how rough the flight has been.
3) Leave your problems behind whenever you take flight.
4) Stay healthy and always safe.

And always remember that a great flight is when you can use the plane again!

06/06/2024

Sitting in my rooms at Churchill College now, seven miles from Duxford airfield. I hear the sounds of Merlin engines, see the Spitfires and Mustangs heading east to fly over the beaches in Normandy to commemorate D-Day, June 6 , 80 years on.

The statistics are staggering: 156,000 troops, 11,000 aircraft, 7000 ships, millions of tons of material- all to free Europe from the yoke of the N***s. What an inordinate effort to defeat the greatest evils of mankind- racism, religious intolerance, fascism, dictatorship. What a tremendous loss of life for this cause.

Let us remember today all the men and women who fought against these evils. Let us be vigilant in these times of the same evils that prevailed then. May we always continue to fight against them, lest we, as Winston Churchill said, “go down into darkness.”

03/11/2023

in memorium Josef, "Sepp", Marböck, who first taught us how to fly.
November 2, 2023

03/11/2023

In memorium Josef, "Sepp", Marböck, who first taught us how to fly. November 2, 2023

16/02/2023

Seeing that the fog over LOLS might not lift today, this is not a hard question to answer.

Ein Diagramm für alle Unentschlossenen unter euch. 😅