Learning To Fly with Grant Francis and GoFly

Welcome to another podcast in the “Getting to know…” series from Grant Francis and GoFly. Find out more about flying and my own path to the PPL at www.flyinglessons.tv Today we meet one of the youngest team members, Ben Makin, who began his flying career only a few years ago, having won a scholarship with the RAF.

Grant Francis is learning how to fly with Gofly in Old Sarum. In this video, we follow him on his very last required solo flight, over what looks more like the Savannah than Somerset.

Join broadcaster and presenter Grant Francis as he learns how to fly with GoFlyUK. In this episode he goes on his qualifying cross country. The longest distance he has ever flown solo… join the adventure!

Grant Francis is a broadcaster, voice over artist and now, a trainee pilot. Follow his experience as he learns to fly and gain a PPL (private pilots license) with GoFly Flying School in Old Sarum just outside Salisbury in Wiltshire. In this lesson, the adventure takes us on “Diversions”

Welcome to another podcast in the “Getting to know…” series from Grant Francis and GoFly. Find out more about flying and my own path to the PPL at www.flyinglessons.tv Today we meet a man who has the air in his blood. He’s the GoSkydive chief instructor, a father, husband and more importantly (as he would say […]

Follow presenter and broadcaster Grant Francis as he learns how to fly with GoFly in Old Sarum. In this video podcast, we visit the stomach churning (its really not that bad) world of 45 degree turns and spiral dives….

Welcome to another episode in the “Getting to know….” series from Grant Francis and Go Fly. Squadron Leader John Sharp is a well known face at Old Sarum. He is the curator, director and driving force behind the amazing Boscombe Down Aviation Collection. Hidden behind the doors of what looks like a small portacabin, is […]

Follow presenter and broadcaster Grant Francis as he learns how to fly with GoFly in Old Sarum. In this video podcast, the journey begins… literally, with the first navigation! Here it is on youtube too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=728fhqprneM&t=35s

Follow broadcaster Grant Francis as he learns how to fly with GoFly in Old Sarum, just outside Salisbury, Wiltshire. In this lesson we look at “PFL” or the “Practice Forced Landing” an essential emergency procedure. If you would like to find out more about becoming a pilot yourself, go to www.goflyuk.com and follow the team […]

Hello. I’m Grant Francis, broadcaster, consultant and newly found aviation enthusiast. I’m learning how to fly an airplane and I’m very pleased you’ve taken the time to join me on this adventure. In this video, I take my first Exam and, only an hour later, perform my first solo flight as Pilot In Command of […]

Thank you for downloading another podcast in the “Getting To Know…” series from Grant Francis and GoFlyUK. When you consider what this man has achieved in the last 11 years, you might expect him to be swanning around surveying the small empire he now commands but this, couldn’t be further from the truth. A slight, […]

Welcome to another podcast in the “getting to know you series” from GoFly. Today’s interview is unflappable in the air and his knowledge of aviation is second to none, almost encyclopaedic. He began his career as a Navy pilot, but of a ship, not an aircraft, before moving towards flying in the mid 80s. After active […]

Welcome to another podcast from from GoFly. In this episode, I talk to one of the Flight Instructors (FI’s), Dan Jack, who has flying in his blood. His father flew commercially his entire career and his grandfather flew during the war and worked for Air Traffic. Dan’s working life began in a very different area […]

Not every day is suitable for flying, so after hanging around for a couple of hours and drinking not quite enough tea, waiting for the cloud to clear (which it eventually did) and the cross wind to drop (which it didn’t) I found a family about to take a tour of one of the most […]

Born in 1993, Tom Rule has always been ahead of the game. At just 24 he heads up operations at Go Fly and is, in his own right, a Guinness record holder. When most teenagers were struggling with mopeds, girls and GCSE’s He became the UK’s youngest solo pilot on his 16th birthday… read more on […]