Sunday is the pick of the weekend days this week, details below.
All of my Aviation Weather School courses are currently full. However, you can still turbo-charge your flying weather knowledge by taking my online Pilot's Guide to Skew-t's...
This press release details more competitive funding bids for further trials.
Future Flight Competitions close soon
Thank you to everyone who has engaged with the Future Flight Strategic Growth and Regional Demonstrator competitions.
The 1930s/1940s Boeing 307 Stratoliner pioneered several aviation firsts & records, including being the first-ever pressurised airliner. Largely forgotten, perhaps because only 10 were made, it had a very successful civil & military aviation...
The Honourable Company of Air Pilots (HCAP) has a new, one-day initiative aimed at guiding prospective pilots through the assessment process. Read more...
Van's Aircraft is back working steadily on its new high-wing backcountry aircraft, the RV-15. Late last week, the new wing was flown successfully on a warm Oregon afternoon. Read more
First flight in the Junkers A50, a modern take on the 1930s open cockpit Junior, which is set to be approved in Germany as a 600kg microlight Read more...
Faced with the high cost of a potential ecg stress test to maintain a rarely used CRI rating, I have decided to instead try to renew my Class 1 medical and Canadian Class 2 instructor rating.
The instructor rating is important for my credibility....
Maybe not totally relevant to GA but couldn’t
resist posting
What a mean looking piece of kit, I have great respect for those who flew them in anger and those privileged few who get to fly the few airworthy today
This week we’re joined by Paul Warren Wilson, leader of the Catalina society! We’ll be getting the lowdown on what it’s like operating the legendary Catalina flying boat, and hearing all the latest on the engine issue that has it currently stranded...
So, just back from this years Big Trip around Europe. A little more drama than last year but enjoyable nonrtheless...For those having NOT read last years trip report, or have just plain forgotten, here are the basic details....
In October 2024, a Cessna is flying with a pilot, undergoing a Commercial Pilot Licence flight test, along with an examiner. A Jabiru is flying from a different airport, with some other Light Sport aircraft, on a social flight. The pilots, aircraft...
Just a quick note to say - well done LAA.
My permit revalidation was returned in less than 24hrs after submitting my owner’s declarations ( the new system).
Join us for an exciting met session with our very own weatherman, Simon Keeling, as he dives into the dramatic side of summer skies - from towering thunderstorms to horror hailstorms and powerful convection.
There's a wide spread of free landings for FLYER Club members for June: Balado, Scotland; Jersey International; Sackville Farm and East Kirkby Read more
Will the former RAF Scampton site become yet another housing estate rather than be turned into a hub of aviation, aerospace and satellite technology? Read more
A fully electric aircraft designed, developed and built in the US, the Alia CX300 from Beta Technologies, has arrived in the UK as part of a European tour. Read more
Cpt Bill Lancaster (1898 – 1933) made several famous post-WW1 flights, none more so than from the UK to Australia with a woman nick-named Chubbie. Although both separately married, they fell in love. While together, she accepted a marriage proposal...
Those of you who are regular Livestream viewers may have noticed that I occasionally slip in a word that might seem a little out of place. Recent examples include flange, orifice and coddiwomple.
TAG Aviation's Angel Wun has successfully completed her line check and is now a Junior First Officer pilot on a Gulfstream G650 business jet, Read more
This week we are talking all things summer fly-ins! The team will be picking their favourite events of the season and sharing what makes them so special. We will also be joined by Sleap airfield manager Bruce Buglass, who will tell us the plans for...
This week we are talking all things summer fly-ins! The team will be picking their favourite events of the season and sharing what makes them so special. Read more
Diamond Aircraft is setting up a network of authorised training centres. Training organisations operating Diamond aircraft can achieve recognition. Read more...