Bournemouth...

[Garry Russell]

Sounds right Fraser :think:

BTW What I noticed first about the Wessex is it is an early one with two exhausts each side where it should have one each side if a genuine RAF rescue.

Garry

[Ben Hartmann]

Is that not the Vanguard 951/3 sim Rick aka G-APEQ?

Mr McKay,

A fake reg surely???

Rgds

Ben

[DaveB]

Well.. not fake as such, just not allocated to a 'flying' machine The trainers are basically wooden mockups used for pilot familiarity so what you see on the back of that trailer is all there ever was ;-) The TCA 952 trainer at Brooklands has a lovely gap all along the top where it was sawn in half for transportation :o :-(

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

The Tident 1 sim was G-ARPV

If there is a missing letter in the fleet they use that or the Q.


Garry

[Ben Hartmann]

Well.. not fake as such, just not allocated to a 'flying' machine The trainers are basically wooden mockups used for pilot familiarity so what you see on the back of that trailer is all there ever was ;-) The TCA 952 trainer at Brooklands has a lovely gap all along the top where it was sawn in half for transportation :o :-(

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Dave / Garry

I'd thought I'd ask as I'm yet to see a British Civil Registered aircraft with a "Q" in the reg

Rgds

Ben

[Garry Russell]

Hi Ben

Q was originally used in the original G-E British register. The last one used was G-EBTQ.

Garry

[DaveB]

Oo-er.. that goes back to the 30's :o A good reason why you've not seen one Ben ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Garry Russell]

There is still the odd Q flying...............Shuttleworth probably

Garry

[DispatchDragon]

The reason it isnt allocated is because it would interfere with the Q code communications -- QFE/QNH/QDM etc etc


Leif |-)

[ianhind]

So that's the reason - I thought that it might be to avoid visual confusion with "O".

Not heard a request for a QDM in a l-o-n-g time!

Other countries also have missing letters from their registration sequences - at this time of night, nothing comes immediately to mind. :-(

Ian