Introducing myself (finally) ...

[Guest Old_Moel]

G'day folks ...

 

I'm originally from Sydney, but now live in Adelaide, and I joined Recreational Flying as a complete bystander last October. I'm not good with sites such as this, so I'm only now getting around to posting [after a memory jogger email ...]

 

I got interested in flying through a kids book [i think it was called "How Planes Fly" or something like that] I read when I was about 5. However, I was born with a spinal injury and a permanent mobility restriction so I never believed I would be able to fly.

 

Nevertheless, 23 years later a car club friend of mine introduced me to Royal Aero Club and I took a trial instructional flight in a Cherokee. I may even have had a shot at flying training if I hadn't failed a subsequent cockpit check [i thought I read at some stage that a flying school - at Albion Park I think - was teaching paraplegics to fly, but that might just have been my fevered imagination !]

 

Anyway, I'm still interested in aeroplanes and flying and like to take and collect photographs of aircraft, visit museums and go to airshows whenever I can.

 

Cheers,

 

Noel