Hello All,

Hope everyone here is doing well. I've got a somewhat quick question, though the full subject behind the question is a bit more involved and maybe I can talk about that later.

Question:

Can you do your Private Pilot's License and...

Lot of talk about a 2nd Brexit vote.

...just like there was a lot of talk about a 2nd Scottish IndyRef vote.

I remember like yesterday the 2nd Irish Lisbon Treaty vote.

I have many philosophical reservations about democracy overall - but having a...

Hello All,

Hope you are doing well.

When you were undergoing your VFR Private Pilot Training, how much Attitude Instrument flying and focus did you work out with your CFI? After you completed your VFR Private Pilot Training and begun your IFR...

This is the chance to shine for all new - and sometimes not so new - pilots!

This thread celebrates any noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial - to be cast into internet eternity...

I was wondering if there are ideal or recommended points during PPL training that I can "take a break"? Basically, what I'm thinking about is to do training in concentrated periods, using holiday hours or clever ways of structuring my work...

Just had my statement including "non-sterling transaction fees" ouch :oops: :shock:

Any advice from our well informed community on a suitable credit card for use in foreign parts ??

Gorgeous wall to wall sunshine all day today :sunny: so this afternoon I gave the lawn its first cut. It badly needed it, the warmish weather has really made it grow.
I then remembered that I did a thread last year so looked it up

A year and a day...

This picture was taken at Beira Airport, in the aftermath of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique. It is one of a sequence published in the Guardian today .

This was apparently the worst cyclone on record in that part of the world. This month has also seen...

Hello All,

Hope you are doing well.

If your goal someday is to own a more modern complex aircraft down the road, having a has a glass cockpit based on either Garmin G3000, Rockwell Collins Proline 21, or Honeywell Primus Epic or Apex, are you...

I was wondering how many active students are on the forum? It would be fun and interesting to me to know who you are, what your flying in and what stage of flying your currently at, where's your home base, why you're flying and do you have a good...

Hello All,

Hope you are doing well.

When flying VFR, what instruments do you find yourself using and needing the most. When flying IFR, what instruments do you find yourself using and needing the most?

When flying VFR, have you ever completed a...

The wonderfully mental STOL world championship :shock: :D

Sky news reporting that an Ethiopian Airlines 737 with 157 people on board, brand new to the fleet last November, has been lost. The Ethiopian government has already issued a message of condolence suggest there is little hope of survivors.

I'm sure...

It's the time of year when Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert starts emailing about fuel bills and the companies start raising prices. Are there any recommendations (or otherwise) about switching. There are companies that come up in his list that...

Let's see how big a PR disaster Sutton Harbour Holdings can make of it this time! I hope they've locked down their social media accounts in preparation.

Hi so this is my first time posting on here apologies if I get what I'm saying a bit wrong. Long story short I'm 15, and am desperate to fly. Eventually, or I guess in the not too distant future, I want to fly commercial, but am aware of how...

I’m just being nosey, but RightMove seems to have far fewer properties than it used to do. (This means that I’m just as nosey, but my nosiness is less satisfied!)

A couple of years ago, there were loads of properties, and almost every house you saw...

This just out from the CAA

Overview
Electronic conspicuity (EC) is one of the most important airspace modernistaion initiatives because of its potential to unlock safety benefits and save lives by reducing the likelihood of infringements and...

My rules:

1. I don't pay up-front for handsets
2. I don't do Apple
3. I don't pay more than £20 a month for a contract/handset tie-in
4. I don't like big phones
5. I don't need much data, 1GB month absolute tops. At the moment I manage fine with...

I had news that Toon may have passed away recently?
I hate to ask...

Toon was one of the great characters I knew many years ago.
He was a popular figure in flying in those days, an instructor and examiner working in the south east and based for a...

I am not a medical expert.
From my comparison of 2019/27 with 1178/2011, principle change seems to be one we have been anticipating:
replace licence validity depends on level of medical
with: privileges depend on level of medical
(removes the...

…deserving of a thread of its own.

Tesla shows $300m profit in quarter ending Sept. and shares jump 10%.

I had these donated to me for use in the Fury but the cockpit is a snug fit in just my undies (mind your own business) so it's unlikely I'll fit in wearing this lot.

I don't have the sizes to hand but they fit my 5' 10", 46" chested frame...

Why did that Boeing crash? Yet again we don't get an 'ex plane' ation.

#ConsiderThis: In all heavier-than-air jet planes (like Jumbo Jets), if one or multiple jet engines fail, only one jet engine is required stay in the air! There is no...

Why are they suddenly appearing between Posts ?. :?

Year of the Pig 1983

I like to compare Chinese years to see if there are any similarities. Often there are, and so this morning after giving someone the benefit of my knowledge by way of ‘customer service’, doing my job though there is no fee, I...

One of today's headline - and apparently within the next 25 years in the SE.

The Government encourages more and more homes to be built and yet in the SE I am not aware of a single new reservoir.

Should we be surprised. Should we not make the...

Sold to Aero Legends

That's a phrase I used to hear a lot.
:P
Not any more...

New iPad mini just announced. How will this compare to the much vaunted mini 4?

I seem to remember that @stevelup in a previous thread thought it might not turn out to be up to much?

(Posted this in GA where advice on tablets is usually sought.)

I shared in my post "When's it too late..?" that I want to become a commercial pilot. It's a deliberate career change choice based on wanting to realise a boyhood wish. So I've decided it really is now or never.

I have booked in for my...

Surfing the net and following a post from a friend from Plymouth I note that our own @waveflyer is responsible for getting the UK's largest bronze to the right place!

From today's Private Eye:

Does anyone have a source to get a custom panel overlay made in the UK. My aircraft has a metal structural panel and used to have a plastic facia over the top. Over the years it fell apart and I took it off and had the underlying panel painted and...

So after a break of nearly a year I have found another Nissan leaf to soothe my needs to drive an EV.

But things have changed a bit on the charging front !

No longer does my Ecotricity electric highway card work in the machines at the motorway...

Hi, We’ve recently had a problem with a noisy squelch on our 430 which seems to have occurred since changing to 8.33 MHz separation.
It’s definitely the Garmin as the rx illuminates when the squelch breaks.
Has anyone else experienced a similar...

It's all over the local telly and papers.

Here's what they are saying in The Journal

Peel Airports Limited has announced it is actively looking for a buyer to take over the majority shareholding it holds in the airport. The firm owns 75%, with...

Having not flown since early January, it was time to check if I was legal to fly. PART-FCL and the 90 day rule applies. Here is a quick insight into what I did before those all important 90 days have lapsed. To confuse matters even more, the...

We have 2 x Macbooks and an iMac which has a large but nowhere near full disk. Currently I use Time machine with a separate disk for each machine. One of these disks has failed this morning in that the computers can't even see it despite the light...

Can anyone tell me how far in advance a NOTAM needs to be submitted?
Recently I've seen a danger area become active and a NOTAM issued within a few hours of my flight planning.
Surely a situation could arise where I have checked the NOTAMs prior to...

In the past 2 weeks I have phoned a particular large Flying School twice and spoke to two different to seek price and course information on 2 courses. Both times I was told I would get an email with all the relevant fees and information. I have not...

Does anyone have experience of putting an LAA type on the Dutch register?

Any pointers to the relevant organisation who control it would be appreciated.

Thanks

Let's hear it for those labiodental fricatives. And the last paragraph of this is wonderful:

Contemporary surnames are really rather dull in comparison …

(I did once discuss with a City Councillor the prospect of getting Oxford's Magpie Lane...

From Mike Patey, creator of Draco

Need an up to date link to the mil AIP. The links I have are all expired and we have trip to Yeovilton this week.

TIA

Many of us are hobby pilots (I certainly am) and people are often surprised to hear it (I'm surprised too!!) as it's not the usual sort of hobby. So what other unusual hobbies are there out there, either your own or that you've heard of?

Yesterday...

Some time in the early to mid eighties, my dad booked he and I on a sightseeing flight out of Bristol Airport (pretty sure Foggy Bottom but could have been Filton?)

According to my dad, it was a bumpy ride and he felt a little rough (but not...

Please bear with me as I have never set up a poll before. Recent posts have me wondering what other pilots do.

Me, I use a moving map GPS (or two) currently Skydemon on an iPad a and a Garmin 496 on the yoke. I carry a chart in case of...

So, it's my first time in the aircraft for a month or so, but I didn't feel really rusty. I was methodical on the pre take off checks, but I didn't get any sense something was wrong until I rotated. And then I sensed something was really wrong....