I've still not yet got flying :( I'm going to the Goodwood Festival of Speed in two weeks, with a week's holiday afterwards. Once I'm back I plan to start flying again :) possibly with a new model. I really like the look of the T-Rex 550E to replace my Raptor.

I've not flown since 10/10/2009 I've had a lot going on so I've had a break from flying for a bit, going to start back soon

2009 is over, and I've now been flying for around four and a half years.

	Year	Flights	Fuel	Crashes
	2005	81	6	1
	2006	109	7	4
	2007	48	2	4
	2008	162	3.25	9
	2009	49	0.25	1
	Total	449	18.5	19

No flying this weekend as I went to the British GP, it was amazing to see the cars for real, pics in the 2008 gallery.

If you ever get the chance to have a go in a real heli, do it, it was amazing. Just need to find 15K to get my licence...

For my 30th birthday I got a 'Virgin Experience Day - Helicopter Explorer' and today I used it at Dragon Helicopters at Sheffield City Airport. The flight was in a Robinson R22 when I got to it looked really small! I went into this thinking it was more of a pleasure flight, but in fact it was more like a lesson. I got to use all the controls flying around and in the hover back at the airport. The pilot also did two auto's.

VIDEO - Take off, and taxi (50 Seconds - 4.72 MB)