Wasn’t there another recent incident with a similar set of circumstances, leading to conviction?

Assuming this is a fair summary of the facts, I’m not sure how I feel about pilots being convicted in this scenario again. I’d love to read the details...

Amazed to see the % that use a checklist ….

My thinking is if you can’t remember how to start the old girl up then you probably shouldn’t be jumping on board

…………Where do you stand on checklists and standard operating procedures?

I think it's...

Perhaps the best looking airliner still in service, the Boeing 757, will soon be gone from our local skies. Jet 2 is one of the last (maybe the last?) operators of the type in UK and some of their fleet have already gone to St Athan to be scrapped....

Teenage son would like an iPhone for Christmas and will be very happy to have second hand refurbished model.

As I know next to nothing about more recent iPhones (had a 4, I think, with work many moons ago) can anyone advise on what would be the...

Anyone experienced this yet?

A bar fitment that automatically pours Guinness (from a can) including the ritual two minute pause halfway through.

It made me smile.

Rob P V2.0

How important is an autopilot to you?

To cut a long story short I recently reached the point of seriously considering giving up flying and selling my Piper Archer. The background is that having spent months and thousands of pounds trying to...

In this time of turmoil I was reminded that there is some continuity to cling to.........

Yesterday I went to the annual Vernon service and lunch at Merchant Taylors. This was endowed in the will of one John Vernon who was Master of the Company in...

Hi, can anybody advise on the likely cost, process and pitfalls of transferring an aircraft from either an SE reg or PH reg onto a G reg? We are new to this aircraft ownership game!

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Given the upcoming sale, its amazing to see such a positive spin on what is from the outside a worsening situation with current management at Gloucestershire Airport.

Cant believe any operator or tenant is happy to see the airport close or...

Looking forward to a nice drop of antifreeze and 3-nitrooxypropanol with my milk, dairy products and meat. :wink:

I’m in the process of reworking the Condors panel, and whilst I am doing it my mind has wandered to fitting an Avmap Ultra EFIS and getting rid of all the vacuum instruments and thus the vacuum pump (yes there is more than enough spare generator...

Keeping this one separate to my main LAPL thread!

I need to get FRTOL done. I've already passed the CAA comms exam. With work/life etc I'm ideally looking for a Zoom type evening course to prep me for the FRTOL practical exam, which I will then...

Well having scrapped our West Country escape, and looking at the forecast, I am guessing there will be lots of tele-watching in our house over the next two weeks.

Our preference is for serial scandi noir - there was a thread in which The Valhalla...

A bit off topic / and on topic at the same time…

I’ve managed to get back to flying lessons again, after 2 months of bad weather. I retained a lot of information from my first flight lesson and the second lesson last weekend was grand! Not too...

Hi

I'm looking to get smart meters installed in two properties to take advantage of the Octopus tracker rates.
However I have some technical issues and it seems impossible to speak to someone at my current supplier who has any technical knowledge....

It seems like yesterday that we put last year's thread to rest, but it's back :thumleft:

The nights are pulling in, so soon it'll be the only thing to keep us going until Christmas.

I'll do my best to provide the usual upbeat reports, but I'm...

My car was rear ended about a week ago. I was stationary at a roundabout. The driver immediately apologised claiming that his brakes had failed.
Damage to my car is fairly superficial, just scrapes and dents on the bumper and the parking sensors...

Halfpenny Green is getting all of its runways resurfaced...

Airspace FTs have just posted on Faceboook...

Big news at our base airfield - Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport…
We have received the amazing news that ALL THREE runways are to be...

You know how reliable those trusty 540s are!

...still better to have two of them at night :D

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...

This week we’re honoured to be welcoming ballooning legend Don Cameron MBE!

Aeronautical engineer and ballooning icon Don is well-known even beyond ballooning circles as the founder of Cameron Balloons, and for a whole series of incredible...

Head over to the Members' forum for the link to next week's Skivestream!

I don't know what took me so long to post... Anyway, I'm 46 which is pretty ancient, but have always loved aviation, being a general geek ( :twisted: technology leader, prog rock fan). I lived abroad for a while in Israel which as you can imagine is...

This from a sizable club in the Midlands:

Our aircraft are now fitted with flight data recorders. We download the information every couple of weeks or following any incident. Several parameters are recorded, they include brakes off/on time, taxy...

Until very recently LAA Permit revalidations were turned around in a day.

In the days of post it was usually post Monday, receive the new stuff Wednesday - excellent service.

In the last couple of years, where the excellent new Chief Inspector...

Thanks for the really positive feedback and numerous emails after the Livestream last night, really appreciated!

One point worthy of clarification is the importance of trimming for best glide speed. One email (thanks Mike!) quite rightly...

From the Barnstormers weekly flyer:
LUSCOMBE AIRCRAFT FACTORY • AVIATION AUCTION • This timed online only auction will include the ENTIRE Luscombe 8A Aircraft Corp. Manufacturing Factory as 1 package! Included in the package is the Type Certificate,...

Hi All,

If anyone is operating Leburg ignition in their a/c, I'd really welcome a bit of guidance and ideally some photos to help me work a few bits out. Nothing overly technical - just trying to understand where other people have put the...

Am going to be in St Lucia in Feb/March and would like to fly a small aircraft dual Anyone have contacts or suggestions.?

Just received this notification via BHA

Screenshot of Fact Sheet as can't find link on their website.

Important date is 31 December 2025 so end of next year.
I've started a new thread due previous one drifting somewhat.

...with its one engine, and it's nice to know that Salcombe hasn't moved.
There seems to be no lower limit for the age of reporters.

:roll:

I am looking for any advice and/or recommendations towards acquiring a US Airmen Certificate in the Orlando area.

I have a current UK PPL with SEP and was looking to be issued with a full US Airmen Certificate as opposed to a piggy back...

…. until 2026.
How sad that a premier (albeit ex UK) manufacturer with its long history have more or less given up on the UK for now.

At least you now own a piece of history @RobP
:wink:

Bad news guys.

Accord to the DVLA, we'll now have to pay annually for the right to drive *AFVs on the roads of Britain.

Rob P V2.0

*A cursory bit of research by Swansea might have revealed that the acronym for "Alternatively Fuelled...

.. off Scotland, with ' human remains'

:(

Just a quick note to say that nominations are now being accepted for the inaugural Pilot Careers Live Professional Flight Training Awards.

The awards will recognise excellence in the professional pilot training industry, from students to...

The entire Luscombe Aircraft factory with all its jigs, tools, new parts, completed airframe elements, type certificates and STCs is for sale. Read more

Seven bursaries of £1,500 each are available from the Light Aircraft Association (LAA) to support young pilots already in PPL training. Read more

Specialist aviation company 2Excel has made the first flight back into the former Doncaster Airport, two years after the airport closed. Read more

Here it is as reported by Russ Niles

Will mostly affect our rotary wing bretheren but the Burnham - Ascot short cut would also be limited.
To maintain high standards of flight safety within the London and London City Control Zones (the London CTRs), the CAA intends to change the...

I've been trying to contact Sherwood Flying Club for more than a week. Nobody answers the phone. Nobody responds to 'contact us'. Are they alive and kicking?

On the airfield web site there is reference to another school - CFS. However their web...

G-JWTP

I stopped at Speyer few times ago, however, I never had the chance to get to the museum. This weekend, I had the chance to visit the place: headwinds were nasty for straight line return trip from Colmar to Paris, delay to Monday? or fly detour via...

This week's guest is Don Cameron, telling us about his life and adventures in ballooning. Read more

The CAA Drone guide seems to give sub 250grm drone operators pretty much a free hand on where they fly in unrestricted airspace.

Is there a distance where you would consider "line of sight" not possible? I know the code says "not...

Is PPL better than an A-level if I was going for a fully funded scheme such as ba speedbird? And also, would I be more likely to be selected with a PPL compared to everyone else? And also, what would set me apart even more to have a higher success...

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...