2004 meeting „Fin“
My first JS member I met, in fact he’s the one who introduced JS to me. We met in England together with members of a pilots forum. Being that both of us were pilots we had something in common.
I had never heard of blogging until Fin told me about JS. He told me which other members I should follow and his advice was excellent! Thanks Fin.
2005 Edinburgh 2005
Once upon a time there was a young widowed mother living in Scotland who began learning to fly. She joined an internet forum for pilots, PpruNe, and named herself „Pink Aviator“ (she just loved the color pink). In this forum she would write about her training advances and all the trials and tribulations of attaining her pilots license.
Her writings soon became very popular. Her own forum was put online and her adventures continued. Like me, many other pilots and non-pilots became members of her forum…. and then came opportunities to meet some of them.
My first trip to Scotland was in September 2004, see above.
On this particular trip I was able to meet „The Pinkster“, as we lovingly called her, in person. My report of that trip has nothing to do with JS so I’ll leave it out, but it was quite fun!!
As it so happened, one of her most loyal fans, „fin“ from New York, was planning to visit Great Britain, originally to fly with „Pegasus“ (or „Winged_Horse“ was then called) for a day-trip to Egypt. Since I had vacation already approved for that time, I thought about meeting the two of them before or after that. The trip to Egypt got canceled but fin decide NOT to change his plans completely, instead just go ahead with the flight to Edinburgh.
By the time the date came around more and more members decided to try to meet up with us … in the end it was a marvelous meeting of new friends, brought together via the internet…. and a young woman who had had a dream of learning to fly……
Saturday, January 29, 2005
We walked past the Scott Monument and discovered you can walk up to the top! 287 stairs!. After a short discussion, „Papa-Charlie“, Mrs. „Papa-Charlie“, „Fin“, and I decided to try it.
The higher we climbed, the more fantastic the view! The very last part was very narrow and I must admit, a bit scary. But it was worth it.
Me at the half-way point.
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Fin said e always took pictures of McDonalds places on his travels, so here is one we happened to come upon. |
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Also a helicopter flew above us and we thought it might be another forum member, but it wasn’t |
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The shadow shows all of us. Fin never wanted to be photographed so this was the only way I could „document“ him |
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This is another flying forum member I met named „Thumpy“. He later visited me in Germany! |