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Atlantic doing scholarships is good in this day & age, as used to be norm for pilots before 9-11, since it's been norm to self fund which considering to get a Commercial Pilots License & then type rated on say a 737 can cost 60k very expensive. But make training captain for one of the big...

I'm at Coventry Airport, but it's one of those jobs where you can get opportunities to work anywhere with an airport. I was offered Dubai back in July which including living allowance was 100k a year tax free, but I've never been & couldn't commit to it because of that. For the mentalists...

The risk is not what you think, ie aircraft hitting them, it's because radar picks them up & make clutter making identifying potential traffic hazardous, therefore this has to be risk assessed in areas of high traffic density.

It's not about being pc it's about what makes the car the safest. You feel the car through the steering this is how you judge the roads grip, therefore if you have slightly less grip on front you reduce speed and drive accordingly. The rear by virtue of having more grip will therefore remain...

Winter schedules vastly reducing, general aviation traffic (ie all the light aircraft/private pilots) very low, so no not much flys some days. On some days last wk I could wind out radar to look over the uk from Heathrow up to Manchester & skies were very empty. Forgot to add, I see you're...

That's interesting because I'm an Air Traffic Controller & any proposed windfarm developments within certain areas within or operational field have to pay us lots of money for consultation & risk assessment work. I must add I love my job, I do tower and radar controlling. Tower being in the...

The information I gave was from a highly trained friend of mine who works as a tyre test engineer for Continental at MIRA, though his job takes him all over the world. For example he tested this years winter tyres in the Arctic Circle back in June. To become a tyre tester you need to be a pretty...

New tyres always on rear on a fwd car especially at this tine of year means rear has more grip so much safer. Plus means the older tyres get worn then replaced with matching newer rubber to the new fitted tyres. And if tyres are over 5 years old probably getting past their best, date stamp on...

I used to own a red series 1 106Rallye reg ended in Pud so that's what it was called. I had a genuine Peugeot Sport decat Group N exhaust system which was comically loud at high rpm under load with a small tailpipe so looked discreet, I loved it. Plus I had a NLA MOMO Corse steering wheel as...

I have MF springs on my car, they are a little firmer, but car feels a touch more positive as result with less roll but enough give to retain good road manners. The car sits lower, noticeably at the back giving car a nice stance. Along with my Koni rear dampers and Whiteline anti-roll bar the...

Non-Cup model Phase 2 172 & 182's have the half leather rear bench with built-in head rests. They come up fairly often in cars which have been in an accident as the standard front seats have airbags rendering them useless if they go off. The dour cards from those cars are also have alcantara...

Car looks good but Gaz, they use twin-tube dampers, which is pretty low rent as I see they are advertising going to Mono-tube soon but only because they pinched some designs from AVO iirc who do mono-tube. Still your car your choices no one can fault that.

The 'bullets' are in carbon with 'RS' in silver almost identical to the Trophy sticker on side skirt, therefore not quite a match to the wheels/mirrors. I will probably in spring now take pictures of all that's changed. Had another Trophy come over at the weekend and was interesting to compare...

Again not the best of quality pics as taken with phone but shows mirrors in correct Ixell paint to match the wheels. As before I don't expect everyone to like.

My trackday car has full harnesses which are the best in terms of holding you in, but for everyday driving I'd give it 2 weeks tops until bored of it. I like my CG Locks which do work well for occasionally track use. I will try and take some quick pics of the other little bits. For got to add...

I think the plan is to always have them in stock & not have to wait for X amount of people saying they want one. I'm very tempted to get 1 & the cat mod as they are only 8 miles or so from my house. Of course this is a bonus over the Yozza as I think those as made in batches so not in stock.

Or you could buy one of these which is near Silverstone in Northamptonshire if you are going to all the effort of coming across, I'm sure if you spoke to them they would fit as well for the listed price and why not get CAT mod while you are are at it. http://www.clio182btbexhausts.co.uk/ Aaron.

The top mounts are K-Tec but is KTR not just K-Tec Racing so the same thing? Unless doing lots of track days harnesses bait pointless on a road car, even with a few track days CG Locks work well as they lock the lap strap in place & you can get it very tight. Only other plans are fit the...

I really like the top mounts, nice positive steering, feels more accurate than before.

Just heard guy who works with my partner Emma was in a bad accident at weekend in his Trophy. He sustained a broken wrist ankle and collar bone from being T-boned in his Trophy. I don't know the number, but from description I doubt it's anything other than a write off. I don't think he comes...

When you lower a car you increase camber, I recently found on my friends Clio 172ph2 that after fitting Koni damper/spring kit he had 2degrees 40mins camber, so fitted Eibach camber correction bolts to reduce camber. The toe settings will change also. I run Mark Fish springs and camber bolts...

Re: 2005 Renault Clio Trophy, over 7K spent! Big Spec! I like the way that people advertise Trophys when the suspension has been changed stating original Sachs front dampers need rebuilt, so they have fitted other dampers, it's a bit like everlasting gob stoppers from Charlie & the Chocolate...

Steering wheel trim was £150 plus i think £8 postage. Glad folk like the dash, I love it. Told a friend with a 172 what I was doing & he initially thought it would not work, now he has seen it he thinks it's great.

The steering wheel was done by Arran on ClioSport. Though I think it's his friend who does the actual work & he is an ex Aston Martin trimmer. The work is brilliant, he removes and remakes the thumb grips separate out of leather so doesn't matter how bad they are. The TDC marker is optional...

I recently fitted port matched inlets & I also removed the small step and polished my throttle body plus flushed the back of the screws on the spindle. I instantly noticed a much smoother power delivery, an eagerness to rev better at higher rpm & have seen an increase on my average mpg from...

I recently bought some port matched inlets butbefore fitting I spent hours polishing up the out side before fitting. I complemented this with a polished strut brace that really doesn't offer much in way of performance increase but unlike the way it looks. Also did my own tacho change by buying...

Visit Corfe Castle a few times when obliged in Bournemouth, it is lovely round there and some good driving roads. Always amused me, sad I know but there is a village near the cadtle called Scotland & bring from Glasgow made me smile everytime I saw signpost for Scotland 2miles, Corfe Castle...

I've been a long time advocate of Uniroyal Rainsports & the new Rainsport2 which we run on our FTO I think is a much better alround tyre then the PE2s I have on the Clio which I think are poor in the wet but good in the dry. Whereas I find the Uniroyal good dry including 5laps of new F1 layout...

In this Months EVO mag they do a FWD test using the RS Megane 250 as control car and the ContiSportContact 5P yet another new Conti tyre after the ContiSportContact3 that was tested in RWD EVo mag test last month. Though the 5P is only available in 18" and above so of little use to us. Michelin...

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