Douglas Travel and Tourism Guide

Two years after passing our Private Pilots Licences, a friend of mine called Amer, and I, decided to fly from Blackpool to the Isle of Man. Getting there would be a brand new challenge. Neither of us had ever flown over such a large expanse of water before. After some rough calculations, we worked out we’d be over water for about forty-five minutes. Forty of those minutes being so far away from land, that in the event of an engine failure, we’d have no option but to ditch in the open sea....