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Yesterday I went flying from lyneham, I do quite often I normally go in G-WFFW but that was away so this is G-BNNT which actual handled better than the other.

Just went out over gloster way and did some GH I thought Ill share some photos with you this time...


What a beautiful Sky


Wispy clouds (Cirrus I think?)


"Danced the sky's on laughter-silver wings" From High Flight

Nice photo with the sun refelcting of the wing


Close-up of myself

Hope you have enjoyed

Comments welcome

Glad somebody's been flying...

What is "GH"?

What is "GH"?

General Handling - probably started of as an RAF Central Flying School term as it is still used today.

Basically it described any kind of flight which doesn't fall into other categories*, such as circuits, stalling, "general" flying exercise (steep turns etc). In the military sense it also includes aerobatics (if pilot and aircraft are cleared for such use!)

*such as IF, Nav, Formation, etc...


An example:

If at work I was asked to demostrate a "GH package", the flight would probably run along the lines of this...

Take off
Climb to height
Spinning
Stalls (academic clean, finals turn stall, final approach stall)
Steep/Max rate turns
Aerobatics
Circuits (all the variations; Normal, Flapless, Low level, Glide)
Also a PFL to a field would appear somewhere during the trip too.

I figured it meant the same as what we Yanks call "maneuvers", but for some reason I couldn't get "general handling" from those initials.

Some more entries for the official English-to-American pilot's glossary:

Flapless: No-flap

Gliding (approach): Engine-out or power-off

Circuits: Pattern work or pattern ops (although I and others often say "circuits")

What I don't see listed in Charlie's package is slow flight, or MCA (minimum controllable airspeed) flight... but that's usually part of stall practice. M
And generally stalls are classified here as "departure" (full power and one notch of flaps at the most, usually done first without, then without bank, as if turning crosswind); "approach" (power at idle and landing flaps), and "secondary" (pulling up too soon after an approach stall).

In any language, it sure is fun.

I figured it meant the same as what we Yanks call "maneuvers", but for some reason I couldn't get "general handling" from those initials.

Indeed. Nice to know the US term.

What I don't see listed in Charlie's package is slow flight, or MCA (minimum controllable airspeed) flight... but that's usually part of stall practice. M

Sort of covered by stalling, spinning and circuit flying. Depending on the aircraft, Max rate turning can get pretty slow too!

And generally stalls are classified here as "departure" (full power and one notch of flaps at the most, usually done first without, then without bank, as if turning crosswind); "approach" (power at idle and landing flaps), and "secondary" (pulling up too soon after an approach stall).

Aye, over here departures are generally practiced as part of spinning, and normally done by simulating mishandling of aerobatics to the point that the aircraft departs and enters an incipient spin. Most commonly a hard turn with too much rudder, or being slow at the top of a vertical manouvre whilst being ham-fisted with the stick.

All comes under the definition of fun to me...