Just been flying again today - blissful! :D

One thing struck me, though, and that is how few people are stating the airfield where they are flying at both the beginning and the end of the transmission.

I'd estimate that fewer than 10% of the...

My first proper lesson . ...

Woke up to fog, rang aerodrome, they reported decent cloud base and some blue sky.

As I drove down the weather improved and we ended up with scattered above 3,000', blue skies, wind light, almost straight down the...

Our group operated aeroplane ( high value sport homebuilt) suffered a ground handling incident late last year, the insurers liability even after excess payment will be circa £15K + .

understandably, our groups members are anxious that the...

I have always been fascinated by history of all sorts and especially ancient civilisations like Rome, Greece and Egypt. Today I have been reading about the discovery of a city built 3,400 years ago near Luxor during the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep...

If you have a cellular tablet but don't want to pay for a full contract for flying, it might be useful. You get a free sim and in exchange for registering you get 200mb per month free. Might be enough for weather and planning on SkyDemon.

Where are our mariners? Grumpy One, Josh (in a previous life IIRC) anyone else?

I'm sure they could get it sorted toot sweet.

Or perhaps Bill could fire some torpedoes at the canal sides to free things up a bit.

One of the more amusing consequences of a stretched global supply chain:

I must admit I've never seen the point of garden ornaments and put them in the same list as mimes as ripe for prompt action post revolution.

Finally got a haircut at 0815 this morning. I think this was the first since about October as I cocked up getting to the barber before Christmas. How often do folk normally visit a barber?

Hi

Anyone know what the current timescales are for the gov.uk site to issue a basic DBS certificate?

Thanks

As we become more relaxed, can we revisit who is open and when please.

Sherburn has new café operators - the most excellent couple from the Maltings just down the road. An absolute breath of fresh air today and we are looking forward to much better...

Has anybody here got an RV10, ideally with a nosewheel, who would be available for an offline chat? I'm trying to put some information together in aid of some modifications for a disabled person who I'm helping with the design of a planned build.

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In this post I will try and set out some, hopefully useful, information around medical certificates.

Please note that it is your responsibility to check and ensure that you have the required combination of licence and medical for the flying you are...

We are coming up to battery replacement on the RV and I just thought I would check the latest thinking here.

Do Gel batteries offer any benefits over conventional types?

Are equivalent batteries available from other suppliers without the...

Hi! Has anybody first hand experience with one of these Chinese ANR headsets?

Yueny ANR AH 2080

Yueny ANR AH 2880

Raytalk PH 100AC

Raytalk PH 100 AC BT

I intend to replace a DC 10.13.4. Do I have to expect worse build quality, worse...

Anyone had to do this yet?

I have my identification verified by the CAA

I’m now allowed the “medical service”

I’ve registered with Cellma

However...

There’s no forms to fill in
No way to contact about this

I’m a bit baffled! :?

Not sure if this is a GDPR thing or not, but who defines what is & what isn't "legitimate interest" WRT cookies? Seems very one sided to me, and open to abuse by the likes of FaceBook, V Putin and others ...

M Fournier celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday (14 April) -- still going very strong. Plans for a Fournier fly-in and party were cancelled for the usual reason, but hopefully there will be a gathering next year.

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...

Following on from another thread I was thinking, what do people do to try and stop themselves from becoming a statistic.

None of us are infallible - being imperfect myself I am very much aware of that.

What do you do in aviation to try and stop...

Who can raise a (legit) MOR? Perhaps everyone should be raising one every time they witness CAT breaking the law in such a dangerous way?

If the CAA then systematically ignore every report relating to a controlled ATZ but take action for every...

Just curious...

Mine arrives on Monday!

Not so much a thought experiment as a peek into the future.

Assuming that there's no useful vaccine, what's the exit strategy from this Covid mess for families, the economy, society, education, government... everything?

About 2.20 minutes in.

(ignore the last 15 seconds :D )

I began my tailwheel conversion training at Little Gransden on Saturday in a Cessna 140. I am absolutely, totally smitten; loved every minute of it. It took a while to get used to a totally different aircraft, and there were a few bouncy landings,...

Serious question here. We all know about the proliferating "handling fee" thing that is happening at a lot of airports. Handling has been around for "major" airports and most foreign places for many years.
In the old days it was...

I thinks this says "We've started".

An oversight has occurred with the Landing Fees tokens in the January issue of FLYER. The token for Blackpool is only valid is you purchase 50 litres or more of avgas during your visit. Our apologies for any confusion.

…deserving of a thread of its own.

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

Having just read through some of Novembers AAIB reports (not usual for me but there were a couple I particualrly wanted sight of), I was amazed to read that in 2 fatal GA accidents, aircraft were significantly overweight.......180 & 140 Lbs....

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...

OK, so here's a question. I should declare in advance that I now know the answer, having after the event had a telephone conversation with a very helpful guy at the relevant Ops. But I'd be interested to hear other people's interpretations of the...

I guess we'll watch the lot, but as we are currently at the end of Series 3 I thought I would check if people who have stuck with it think it's worth the effort.

We watched Series One a couple of weeks back, two episodes a night over three nights...

Does anyone know where I could get detail on the undercarriage so I can do maintenance on it, please?

Kind regards

Hi All,

I've been using skydemon on my tablet without much of an issue, however was looking to use the windows version for some of the planning. however everytime i try and "click" on anything on flight details or airfields it doesnt...

Gosh it felt good after 6 months - ish

No pictures but just good memories.

Hoping for many more this year.

Internal bliss restored :thumleft: :D

(thanks @carlmeek for keeping me on the straight and narrow :thumright:)

To gyrocopter/auto gyro - or not.

Got a colleague who does 3-axis ULM, delta, **** powered parachute thingy etc. He’s colour blind, so never thought of PPL.

I’m not in the situation to fly SEP much (in fact - at all); young kids, busy life etc....

Six things to do today (if you haven't done them already), in no particular order…

1. Enter the Pooley's competition to win either a Bose A20 headset with Bluetooth, a Garmin D2 Air watch or a £250 voucher to spend in the Pooley's Pilot Shop. Visit...

I've been given a heads up about cataracts by my ophthalmic guy. Not a problem yet but...
Has anybody had the problem and solved it?
What's the best surgical treatment when it comes to flying?
At the moment I'm wearing varifocals plus a spare pair...

I know 'it's only 164 metres', but this is going to extend the centrelines and therefore the CTA and make it even more likely to accidently infringe with the current squeeze on airspace, isn't it?

Pin out, throw grenade, wait for the bang....

Anybody on here know about Hive home heating - I have a problem.

Basically all the lights are on, no warnings, App is updated, batteries recharged in the thermostat which is wall mounted just outside the cupboard were the controller is. The Hub is...

I have a 12" retina MacBook (2017) which has not been used for a while (possibly a year). But it won't start up. I have tried the suggestions in but none work.

The USB-C power supply works fine on my 16" MacBook, and whilst larger than...

Hello everybody,

I have a question. I would like to buy engine Continental IO-470-C for my Annex Aircaft L60 (Brigadyr) from CZ. I have more choices for engine (Lycoming O-540-A and IO-540-C), but IO-470-C looks like the best choice. I wonder if...

France moves to ban short haul internal flights

As previously postponed from last week (see other thread), FLYER.co.uk will be offline for a short period whilst some maintenance work is undertaken, from approximately 2100hrs this evening (8 March).

Hi There everyone.
I hope someone can help.
I am in the process to build a ultralight plane from plans. they recommend a motor that is no more than 75Lbs and up to 40Hp but I am new at this so I am not sure where to start to find a motor.
I am...

Can someone explain what the procedure is now for a GP to issue a LAPL medical? Is it necessary for the GP to log on to the new system to input directly, or do they complete a form and submit it to the CAA for them to input?

I have a driving...

I took my aircraft to its annual yesterday, and while planning, noted that Solent is still closed and class G quite a bit of the time...

EGHI CTA Activated

Until 10 Apr 2021; SFC-FL55

Solent CTA and Southampton CTR/ATZ operating hours are-...

Hello everyone,

I've been lurking on here for some time following the good craic and thought I'd introduce myself.

I'm Chris, 45 and - hopefully when the school opens later in March - will be embarking on a lifetime ambition to get my PPL and...

I tried to connect my SkyEcho2 using Wifi and my ipad rejects the password I had set (and neither will it accept the factory password). No idea why, but I concluded I would need to do a hard reset because I cannot find any instructions about...

Are there restrictions on GA between European countries (yet)? Presumably they would be disseminated by NOTAM if there were?

I was planning to go to Middelburg in NL tomorrow and can't decide if this would be unwise.