Trying to get to grips with insurance for my first aircraft.

LAA has a newish scheme with Air Courtages but there are two elements/options; Aircraft attached, and pilot attached.

Which is most appropriate for a sole owner of a 2 seater LAA...

Does anyone know what the situation was back in 87, did you get an RT licence for life?

My UK licence form 1996 came with a separate page for the FRTOL, but my friend, whose was issued in 87, says he does not have that page.

Thanks in advance.

MM

Spock has finally made his last jouney :(

Iceman 8)

I am preparing myself for my first sole-ownership a/c purchase. I have done a lot of research about the buying process and it got me asking a question - what benefits/advantages does purchasing from a broker give the buyer - if any?

I am aware...

Here goes...

I'm 34 years old, married with 2 young daughters and live in west central Scotland. I like most on here have been obsessed with planes and aviation all my life.

I've had a few trial lying lessons at both Glasgow and Prestwick...

... so it's coming up to mobile contract time. For me, calls are much less important than data and good 4g coverage.

I've been on O2 for a while and their coverage, especially when travelling is not great, but I don't know whether any of the others...

First trip to CI coming up, after some advice...

1) Destination is Jersey but would like to route overhead the other two CIs from Cap De La Hague en route. Should I FP Cap De La Hague DCT Jersey and request overflyig on contact or should I put in...

I hear the sad news this morning that once again, the Calais restaurant is closed. At the very least, Reynald, the affable restaurant manager has parted company with the restaurant at the insistence of its owners. Performance during the trial period...

According to Wikipedia (so it must be true), Uber operate in 633 cities across the globe. But Sadiq Kahn (/ TfL ) declares them as "not fit and proper" for London on the grounds of "public safety and security implications".

What...

So as we all know cessna 152 and PA28s are becoming older each year and im wondering what will be replacing them in the future as training aircraft. Stapleford have some nice new technams that ive not had a chance to fly yet :(

Hi

I have completed all ground exams and had my skills test yesterday for PPL A. I need to get my paperwork into licensing before 29th Sept however I am struggling to find an R/T examiner to do the practical test.

Can I get PPL licence issued...

The latest IOPA newsletter highlights this educational video showing how vastly different training and real-world scenarios can be:

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This thread celebrates any noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career, whether that be private or commercial to be set in internet eternity forever more. I look forward to updating this thread regularly.

As and when achievements...

On the radio news today there was an item about one the one hand, insurance companies declining to pay out for things like hotels and car hire that was lost due to the current spate of cancelled flights, and on the other, the airline saying that...

Anyone else going?
:oops:

Aviation does pretty well here......

Does your job pay less than it did five years ago?

At the end of August I decided to sell my car, so I stuck it on Auto-trader. A nice chap phones me up and says he's a motor trader from Telford and that he is really interested in my car. He would come down 'tomorrow' but before he comes, could he...

I was watching an antiques programme on TV the other day and one of the 'experts' was buying a teddy bear. It was stated that most children were given either a teddy or a stuffed rabbit when they were toddlers.

I wasn't, I distinctly remember being...

Unless Google Image Search proves otherwise, this was a genuine inclusion on a school newsletter received by a colleague of mine...

Taken together the threads about:

Infringements
Transponders
Low Flying (two of 'em)
License regs

lead me to believe that a non trivial minority of GA pilots (the sections thereof on Flyer forum) do not believe one of two things about the...

I was driving around doing the things that one has to do at the weekend when I got to a part of a road where there was traffic parked on both sides of the road and the remaining carriage way was not wide enough for 2 cars to pass.

It got me...

Can someone technical please help?

Since updating my ipad to the latest IOS system, I seem to have lost the photo stream option in photos, so any pictures taken on my iphone & stored in the cloud cannot now be accessed on my ipad.

As far as I...

Surprised there's not been much discussion on the latest Ice Pilots TV series....seems to be big changes going on at Buffalo,

I wonder if anybody can answer this for me...in the last episode they where getting ready to to fly the Electra out to...

Looking at Pear Tree Farm near Mancheseter. Lockyears have it as 750 metes but looking at Google maps seems somewhat shorter. Does anyone have any experience of going in there?

I'm very proud to say that after 8 months, 350+ modules of study and progress tests, 20,000+ question bank questions I've just received the final passes for my ATPL theory exams. What a lovely feeling.

I have a funny feeling I'm going to be waking...

Over the years I have given some people flights in the RVs and promised flights to others which have not been redeemed - including the memorable day when I turned up at Old Buckenham without any keys.

Friday I am thinking of flying into Duxford....

There is a car that appears to be abandoned on a road near here. It is “parked” strangely at an angle, partly on the pavement, close to a junction and on double yellow lines. It also appears to have started to attract daily parking tickets and it...

Not here in the UK OBVIOUSLY, but if you lived somewhere else, this is the kind of fun and inexpensive flying you could enjoy.

MM

Border Force urges vigilance at UK's GA airfields in new campaign launched today:

Ok this is not about cost sharing itself, this is about a particular sentence and what it means. Deep in Europe, with beer and a warm log burning stove, this sentence is being debated:
The cost-sharing arrangements apply to any other-than complex...

Just as I am about to buy a new 8.33 radio (there is no hope of actually getting it fitted until well into next year), a newsletter arrives this morning from AOPA saying that many countries including the U.K. have applied for and got various...

15th September. If you are flying spare a moment to think of those who flew in less friendly skies 77 years back.

A few Few are still with us.

Rob P

just seen this on Telegraph news feed
doesn't sound good

The new Pan Towers ticks all the boxes for Mrs Pan (gardens, view, gardens and did I mention the view?) and mostly me (for the kitchen) but sadly compromised in that I have no garage now. I do however have a large workshop /shed at the bottom of the...

local news reporting multiple engine thefts

I own a Cessna 172 and I have replaced 3 Artificial Horizons in 15 years!
They are bog standard R C Allen 22-7, New vac filters are fitted at every annual. Fitted by a licensed engineer. Anyone have similar experiences or know why such a short life....

Hey All,

I was curious to know if anyone on here has any Thunderstorm stories to tell, and if we could learn from them?

I remember seeing a video on YouTube of a PPL flying in Kent IMC and ending up in an embedded cell, can't find it but it was...

Flew past Cardington today and saw a big roundey thing outside, :shock:

Bit of a long shot, but here goes...

Back in the ealy 1980's I was the proud holder of Class B callsign G1BCG, said licence having long since been allowed to lapse. I'm now looking to get back into the hobby and I've been looking into the...

Has anyone bought the above online, and if so who could you recommend. Just that I'm fed up with paying a small fortune for specs only to drop, chip, scratch them, which in my job is quite often.

There seems to be a multitude of providers online so...

Sorry if anyone knows the deceased or injured, but lighter Cessna pilots should find this report on g-bdzc worth reading:

(Edited to correct the link! Edited again to add this comment!)
The report dwells for a long time on flaps and flap switches,...

Hi, I'm from London however I lived in California for 2 years and returned early this year with the hopes of returning promptly, however some issues have arose since which I'm currently in the process of resolving before I head back. I see myself...

This has to be done as part of the 10 hour course at an rf/ATO to upgrade to an NPPL/LAPL to a PPL.

Could this requirement not be changed to show logbook evidence? I have now been involved in 4 of these conversions and in every case the pilot had...

A poll for people who fly aircraft with transponders fitted

Hi im new to the forum.
Im a pilot with under 500 hours on mainly cessna and robin types.

I have been watching many youtube videos recently and the amount of pilots that use the main front windows only as opposed to scanning the side windows as a...

Hello all,

PPL from the Americas freshly moved over to East Anglia, and I'm looking to familiarize myself with anything from the fields to the airspace over England. If anyone wants someone in the right seat or help on their N-reg airplane, I'm all...

I have noticed lately that every so often someone will peface someones user name with @ when mentioning them in a post, is it something to do with that Twitter thing?, I thought that was a hashtag?, what exactly does the @ prefix do?, I thought it...

I am about to start on the last page in my first log-book. my shiny new log-book is only 10 flights away.

It feels like a bit of an event in my flying career.

My first log book records just less than 500 hours. I have flown 17 different types,...

As a private Cessna 182 driver (based Denham) and writer (in professional life), I've always been curious to know what's involved in taking your pet (dog?/cat?) flying. I believe some people go for pretty long cross country trips with their hound...