Aircraft
Anglia Flight operates a variety of training aircraft.
Anglia Flight operates two Cessna 150 Aerobats for basic, aerobatic, night, IMC and formation training. These aircraft are also available to hire for licence holders. The C150 has nice, light controls which allows for superb training characteristics and easy learning whilst at the other end of the spectrum aerobatic training is also easy, for instance Steep turns can be made without heaving at the controls. You can go right up to 60 degrees and hold altitude and bank angle perfectly with a mere flexing of the wrist whilst loops and rolls are a delight. Practising stalls will also keep you on your toes – literally there is none of the docile mushing exhibited by the Pipers - you actually have to use the rudder pedals to keep the wings level, and the nose drops down in quite an exciting fashion! You can have lots of fun in the 150, it really rewards you if you use nice, gentle and smooth control movements. When it comes to safety there is no safer aircraft than the Cessna 150, Quite simply it is miles ahead of its nearest competitor in the training market, the PA38 Tomahawk. On a year by year basis the Cessna 150 has an accident rate of less than ˝ % of the total production (over 30,000 were built between 1956 and 1985) compared to the PA38 Tomahawks 6% (Less than 2500 were built between 1979 and 1982 before Piper abandoned them), In addition The NTSB estimates that the Tomahawk's stall/spin accident rate is three to five times that of the Cessna 150. Its little wonder that the PA-38 earned the nickname "Traumahawk" amongst the flying fraternity!
Anglia Flight operates a four seat Cessna 182 for advanced training and touring. Why a 182 instead of a Cessna 172 or PA28? Firstly Consider the fixed-gear, four-seat general aviation aircraf, how many are actually four-seaters? Yes, they have the seats, but what happens when you have four people in them? Do you have to leave fuel in the bowser rather than in the aircraft fuel tanks? If you are flying a 172 or PA28 the answer is normally yes thereby restricting range unless you elect to fly overweight which means illegally with no insurance……. And what about baggage? Can you and your passengers carry more than a change of underwear and does that has to be stuffed in your pockets? Again the answer is normally no in the case of the172 and PA28 series. The 182 on the other hand can carry four full size adults, baggage and still have a useful endurance of 4 to 5 hours at 150 mph. Secondly we wanted to be able to offer ‘complex’ training, to meet this aim the 182 has a variable pitch propeller. Thirdly we wanted to offer a tourer to our PPL members that could actually go somewhere, no more flying along at the 110 mph that 172s and PA28s manage, the 182 flies at considerably faster, meaning you could be in France about an hour after leaving Norwich! This combined with a real short field performance and an incredible rate of climb adds up to the ultimate touring aircraft.
