It likes to swing its butt around
OK…you have piqued my interest…I’m thinking that the aerodynamic theory is pretty much the same…so…controls and displays set up differently?
Mainly the EFIS and some other systems like Engine control and I believe Hydraulics, works a bit differently.
OK…so the whole lift, thrust, drag and gravity thing is still the same? 
A bit more of the lift and thrust but less drag. Gravity is more or less the same. Hey, it’s the law. What can you do? 
PFM, and lots of dollar bills. 
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I do like it how my PPL book pretty much says “the real reasons of why lift works are complicated and you wouldn’t understand them - here, read about Newton and Bernoulli instead”.
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I’ve usually been less interested in how they fly compared to why sometimes they don’t fly… 
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That’s some deep thinking 
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Must be lack of either magic or dollars, then.
(Same why anything in life does not work)
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To me, what is even more amazing is how almost any design, as long as it adheres to a couple of basic rules, will fly controllably. But then designers (and I am talking to you Boeing) seem hell bent on blowing up the natural handling qualities of that design. Let planes be planes and pilots be pilots, I say!
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I picked up this pretty little thing in the current Alabeo sale. I wanted to get a Seminole because this is the airplane I did my Multi-Engine training in. I think I have a total of 10 or 12 hours in it (it was an accelerated course over 4 or 5 days). Seems like a long time ago now.
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Was it at oxford by any chance paul?
I trained for my PPL in Cyprus while I was stationed at RAF Akrotiri in the mid 90’s. When I returned to the UK, I flew the C152 at the RAF Halton flying club and for a time the Vigilant motor glider at RAF Henlow.
When I came out of the RAF I didn’t fly again until after moving to the US in 2002, which is when I hit the flying training as hard as I could. So, to answer your question, no, not Oxford , but Bowling Green, Kentucky in 2004.
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Wow I was way off 
Just wondered if the 1 Seminole at oxford is by chance the same one. They have seneca v’s mostly now which I’ll be training on but I wouldn’t mind a spin in the older one 
Yeah, same here (I think a lot of us got their multi in the ole’ Seminole). I still remember on my checkride the FAA examiner was very leery about the shutdown and restart…he wanted it done (wisely) over the airfield so if we couldn’t get the engine running again we could just spiral down for a low-power single engine approach and landing.
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Where you there in the summer of 1998? I was stationed at Incirlik AB in Turkey, on the staff of Operation Northern Watch. The Commander and a few of his staff (including me) flew in to Akrotiri for some brief and discussions about the situation in Cyprus (the Russians were reportedly sell some SAMs to the Greek Cypriots). We arrived in a VC-10 which made a low pass over the base so the Commander could see it…
…anyway, do you haver the recipe for Brandy Sours? We were told that was the “signature” drink of RAF Akrotiri. I really liked them…they had a bit of a kick too. 
I was posted back to the UK in early ‘97 after spending 3 years out there. So I missed you by about 18 months give or take.
As for a recipe for a brandy sour, I drank plenty of them, but never mixed one myself… but Wikipedia comes to the rescue!
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Thanks! Yes the Cypriot version! We have been trying to find the recipe ever since…and I never thought about Wikipedia [Dooh]…Anyway, an awesome drink. 
I mentioned the VC-10 low fly by because it raised a bit of notice on the base…as you can imagine. I heard more than a couple, “Oh, so that was you in the VC-10 the other day.” LOL