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[conlad]

AQA - you?

What sorta C/W was it dude?

[Cooperman]

I'm retired, so I can do whatever my wife allows me to.

[Scorp]

I have physics exam tomorrow too lol

[Mrt88]

I'm retired, so I can do whatever my wife allows me to.

Finally someone that doesn't have a exam to do :)
But for everyone else hang in there, it's worth it in the end

[Miniryan09]

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AQA - you?

What sorta C/W was it dude?

OCR, oh it was painful, had to do a presentation and a report, mine was like 15 pages :|

C/W i can do, but exams i just suck at....



It better be worth it in the end...So much work been put into it and getting no result out so far...

[conlad]

Ohhhh seems ok to be fair, better than what we do

I have given up on physics altogether.. Just focusing on Geography, Maths and Stats

[Miniryan09]

Ohhhh seems ok to be fair, better than what we do

I have given up on physics altogether.. Just focusing on Geography, Maths and Stats

yep, Maths, Stats, Econ1, Econ2, DT1 and general studies are way about both the physics exams in my list of prioritys haha

[conlad]

Yeh lol deffo, cant stand it though, it just makes no sense to me in terms of how I can use it futher

[Cooperman]

I'm retired, so I can do whatever my wife allows me to.

Finally someone that doesn't have a exam to do :)
But for everyone else hang in there, it's worth it in the end

Last year I had to take a written flying exam. That was the first exam I'd taken since 1963. I passed with 94%, so how's that!
You never stop learning in life.

[Miniryan09]

is there anything you can't do! Have you got a pilots licence and all then?

[Cooperman]

is there anything you can't do! Have you got a pilots licence and all then?

I learned to fly with an RAF Flying Scholarship when I was a 17-year old Air Cadet and that was before I could drive.
After power flying I turned to gliding, so now I fly sailplanes at Nene Valley Gliding Club. I returned to gliding when I retired and really decided I couldn't afford National Level rallying any more.
If anyone on here lives in or near Huntingdon and fancies a trial lesson I'll be pleased to arrange it.
Here I am about to take off last Spring in an SZD-51-1 sailplane.

[Miniryan09]

is there anything you can't do! Have you got a pilots licence and all then?

I learned to fly with an RAF Flying Scholarship when I was a 17-year old Air Cadet and that was before I could drive.
After power flying I turned to gliding, so now I fly sailplanes at Nene Valley Gliding Club. I returned to gliding when I retired and really decided I couldn't afford National Level rallying any more.
If anyone on here lives in or near Huntingdon and fancies a trial lesson I'll be pleased to arrange it.
Here I am about to take off last Spring in an SZD-51-1 sailplane.

Fair play! would love to be able to do something like that, but don't think i'd have the head for heights.

I've always thought gliding would be a really odd sensation, I mean its basically a controlled fall...

[Cooperman]

The idea is to find a good thermal and actually climb rather than just glide gently back down.
AS an example, in March I took off and had a launch to 1300 ft. I searched for a thermal and finally found a fairly weak ont at 800 ft. After circling in it for a while it strengthened and took me to just over 3000 ft. I left it and flew back towards the airfield, finding another good one at 1700 ft which took me back to 2800 ft. I did a flight of 1hr 20min and it was a good days flying. It's not expensive either. In a powered aeroplane, like a Cessna, a 1hr 20min flight would cost around £200, but that flight in a glider cost me a £5-50 launch cost plus 30p per minute for 100 minutes, so £35-50 in total. Less than a meal for 2 in a restaurant.
It is a fantastic sport and we have several young members ready to fly solo at 16 years old right up to old b*****s like me.

[Bean]

Am I the only one that goes to work to work!?

Skivers!

[Cooperman]

It's OK for you guys, I still can't decide what I want to do when I grow up!
In the meantime I shall play with old Minis and gliders.