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Hi, my name is Isaac. I am 17 years old and I live in Birmingham. I am wanting a career as a pilot and this is a journey that I have already started. The reason why I am writing to you today is to tell you a bit about myself, my...

With the CAA requirement for the mandatory fitment of a CO detector not far around the corner, what are people actually buying ? I've not found anything decent on the popular UK aviation retailer sites. The decent detector that I have fitted in the...

I don't normally post my videos here, but having spoken to several aviation firefighting experts I realise there is potentially some real safety benefit in doing so.

This video demonstrates what happens when you discharge a dry powder fire...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

I went to Kemble today.
Was invited to join overhead (FISO), accepted that (08 RH circuit 2 in the pattern, 1 t&g)). Just before I entered the ATZ Someone else coming from the South PA 32 I think (Derp), announced joining, wanted right base.
It...

I don't know why the CAA is so hung up on how a registration looks on the side of an aircraft but here we go again

To ensure the safe operation of environments such as aerodromes and operating sites, aircraft
must be clearly and easily...

As per the flyer news pages, the AAIB report is published recently for this accident which occurred back in April. The background to the flight was for a pilot to regain club currency at Prestwick. That pilot was flying on LAPL and was also not...

Thought-provoking article in 'Foreign Affairs'. I don't think it's 'political', so posted here, but I can see that some reactions may be.

"The Age of Depopulation
Surviving a World Gone Gray"

Recent UK figures may be apposite:...

This photo is like one of those “can you spot all the problems” contests. I’ll have a go:

• The pin from the removable left-side cyclic control should be with the removed left-side cyclic stored under the seat, not on the controls as a snag...

I have an EASA PPL, from 2012, obtained here in the UK, 2 months late to get a UK PPL I think
EASA PPLs continued(in the UK) until 2020??
Apparently I can't exercise my IR(r) / IMC in the UK without a UK PPL or a Class 2 medical rather than a PMD....

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

Pencilled in for April 17th :D :D

Is currently making a fairly rare appearance to mark the 40th anniversary of its release. It continues to be a rather harrowing viewing experience…

I've recently noticed my tinnitus that came when I was bedding in some new cylinders a few years ago is still being excited by flying even with my Lightspeed Zulu 3's. Having a few weeks off, then flying intensively excited the problem. Thankfully...

Is this OK here? I detect a sensitivity around EC, but I thought this was a different take.

I was flying with a PAw (Pilotaware Rosetta), near Popham, north by 5-10 miles
I looked at the PAw and it said 'ATOM 5', 5 ground stations in range. There...

You can catch the last hour on Sky355 of Seven hour marathon of 60s music .

The soundtrack of my student years decade from O levels to qualifying .

Happily I hit the ‘record ‘ button fairly early on.

Great evening of nostalgia . :lol:

What is involved for a UK PPL to obtain an EU PPL?

Assume a UK PPL who spends quite a bit of time in different EU countries and wants to fly locally based aircraft whilst there.
(Asking on behalf of a friend)

They don’t tempt you to hand deliver all your Christmas cards taking days out of your bust Christmas period.
Their sound is real.
They take less than 2 minutes from 0% to 100% and give around 500 miles range.
You don't need to feel smug about owning...

Hi All,

I need to clear customs from the UK into the Netherlands. Has anyone had recent experience going to Lelystad?

Rotterdam is also a possibility. Any other suggestions?
I am going just East of Amsterdam.

Thanks
PA28

So yesterday, a water main about 100yd from my place bursts. Road is blocked of course but we're actually a well used country lane and well used rat run rather than a street in a town so 'Road Closed, No Entry ' signs are posted about half a mile...

A seed was sown by a well-known student forumite (take a bow @t6harvard) that it might be nice to have a thread for relatively newly qualified students to share their first new flight experiences as inspiration for current students and ideas for...

The Coroner held a pre-inquest hearing today and has set a date of September 2021.

The reason includes the fact that 150 people have applied to attend which is impossible at the present.

She will sit alone without a Jury.

About 2 weeks ago, WhatsApp just stopped notifying me on my iPhone X

Updated WA, updated iPhone, hard reset, uninstalled, installed from iCloud.

Everything is turned on !

If the app is open, I get a notification, if not - nowt........ I don't do...

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...

I see the EU à la dernière heure have postponed indefinitely the introduction due to start 10 th November of fingerprinting at passport control /borders to the EU.

Plan is to think of another method apparently.

EES system of checks on non-EU visitors, including taking facial images and fingerprints, to start in three months’ time

Snaffled from the expats' magazine Connexion.

Probably no significance that it is the day before Armistice Day.

Rob P V2.0

I’ve been an Amazon (prime) customer for years. Suddenly they’re encouraging me quite aggressively to change to Amazon business. They say I’ll get all the benefits of Prime, but for free.
I can’t work out what’s in it for them, why are trying to...

Hello folks!

I am a low time PPL pilot and after a few years of club flying I decided maybe the time has come to buy my first airplane.
I have seen two options in the little two-seater category, here in Sweden where I live.

Jodel D112
Lycoming...

Please move or delete if in the wrong place.
We have an unexpected place for an FI rating at Blackbushe starting 4 November.
PM me or call the club for details.
We employ nearly all our Fi students so there will be work.

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The annual Light Aircraft Design Conference held by the Royal Aeronautical Society will be on Monday, 25 November this year Read more

Two gull wing cargo doors hinged down the middle of the Bushliner aircraft's fuselage? How is that possible? Read more

Pal of mine needs to install a router in his office at the back of the house. The BT connection and a fine BT Infinity wireless router are at the front of the house. There is no viable way to cable this to the office. The thought therefore is to use...

We would all like to know about and join in celebrating noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial. This thread allows all those steps to be cast into internet eternity forever more.

Please...

Pop over to the Members' forum for the link to the next Skivestream!

Hi, I am passionate about aviation and historic aircraft, and have wanted to work in aircraft restoration for as long as I can remember.
I was intending to enrol on a course to attain my B1.2 maintenance licence, but after speaking to the course...

The Garmin sims (both Windows and iPad based) for the GTN650xi include SAR search pattern options that can be loaded into a flight plan, over and above the usual 'hold over' function.

I don't see this feature on my 650xi.

I'm wondering whether...

This week we are welcoming Major George ‘Smokey’ Bacon MBE TD, former CEO of the British Air Display Association (BADA), to talk about the state of the UK air display industry!

George has had an action-packed career in an assortment of flying...

Seen on the remnants of the Key Forum and I thought worth sharing here:

Sarasota forecasting gusts of 110 knots with the eye going straight through Tampa. Not a lot of traffic flying in Florida (at the moment).

Iceman 8)

Many years ago, my grandfather gave me a negative file. I never used it and had forgotten all about it... until I discovered it yesterday underneath a pile of prints. It's in pristine condition and I also have the box that the box came in.

Now I'm...

With the price of a 1st class stamp now £1.65, it got me wondering about the cost of the Christmas card ritual.

I send a modest 19 cards to friends/family, which would set me back £31.35 for 1st class post, or £16.15 for 2nd class.

That got me...

I’m not sure if this is allowed, but I’m hoping I have enough good behaviour credits recently to keep this here for a while… :D

Some of you will know him, and many of you will have heard of him, but Matt Dearden (@IndoPilot here), has just...

It is with deep sadness that I have to report that John Pearson of this parish, took his final flight this afternoon.

John had survived cancer last year, but unfortunately first Covid, and then Covid plus pneumonia took advantage of his weakened...

The past month or so we've had loads of flies around the house.
From talking to a few colleagues, it sounds like it's not localised to our house or village.
Is it the same across the country?
There was some suggestion that the milder winter, wetter...

Best thing on tv for ages. Worth the sub to Apple TV alone. Just finished series 4. Fab.

Had difficulty signing on this evening; kept re-directing me to '@uhb.co.uk ' instead of '@googlemail.co.uk '

Apparently there is a Maltese cargo ship anchored a few miles north east of Manston with a cargo of dangerous exposives (ammonium nitrate as per the stuff which blew up in Beirut a couple of years ago).
It has a damaged rudder and propellor.
She...

Interesting developments at the GAAC. It's always had the ear of Government so hopefull fresh impetus will see better relations with the new lot.

And their paper