The Light Aircraft Association is pressing on with planning for the 2020 LAA Rally on 4th , 5th and 6th September, despite the current COVID lockdown.

One theme of the event will be a ‘Radial Roundup’ with an invitation to owners of radial-powered...

An urgent message to bored, aviation-minded, kids, parents and grandparents!

The Light Aircraft Association has launched a new Aviation Art Competition which will give young people at home an opportunity to use their creative skills to design a...

The Flyer team got together over a virtual mince pie to pick our favourite aviation books. Blimey, there's loads, so this is just a start…

We've provided Amazon links should you want to drop a not-so-subtle hint to anyone struggling with your...

The BGA have started a series of online lectures and talks - these are available on YouTube. Some may be a bit technical, but there will be forthcoming talks on topics like aerobatics and mountain flying which may be of general interest:

Also...

Here is an interesting one.

I have some crates containing aircraft parts to collect from Liverpool at the end of April. Me only, no contact. i can rope, how do you get advise on whether it is acceptable or not /

A freight company could do it on a...

Hi - seeing the thread on books I couldn't find one for films (apologies if I have missed it) but....

What are your suggestions?

John

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.

Keeping politics out of it…can we read anything in to the outcome of Alex Salmond's court case.

Reading some of the accusations during the trial I did raise an eyebrow at the authenticity of the allegations, however with 10 women making accusations...

I live below what is usually fairly busy airspace. However in the last week there has not been the usual procession of 737s/A320s of Wizzair, Easy and Ryanair in to Luton and Stansted. Bar one police helicopter the GA sector has dried up as well....

Are there any HTML wizzards that could help me find a way to display images that have been FTP'd to a server at a particular time, on a regular basis so that I always see the latest one on the server.

The files are of the form...

Nice story about a young singer falling in love with flying.

Rob P

New series appearing on the Yesterday TV Channel which might be an interesting watch:

Ian

This could be a looming problem for some.
Is this now the time for the CAA to rethink the whole subject?.
At the very least it would be good to hear of the short term provisions for those who may need to do one soon.

Below, the advice being offered to LAA members.

We’ve noted significant debate in the social media about whether pilots should fly during the current lock down on non-essential travel. We all have personal decisions to make on this; we’re all...

My friends on the continent tell me Mike Ashley has sold to the Russians and are guarding the assets with Gun boats .
Is it true there are more than one or two in the North Sea ?

Amazingly my wife is treating us to a holiday in SA in February. We'll be travelling two weeks between Knysner and Cape Town, connecting with the UK in and out of Joberg.

A bucket list item is a Bush flight. Can anyone make any suggestions or...

Yeah, so there is this whole “corona” thing going on.

Apparently some chavs are fighting over 2-ply, and a few of the upper middle class are letting go their young Italian maids “just in case”.

So, what is everyone doing to be middle class...

Don’t forget to Put your clocks forward tonight.

About four months should be about right!

Afternoon all.

Seems the wrong time to be asking this, but with little else to do!

Thinking of returning to some GA flying, currently fly CAT (for how long is a topic for another day) so I’ve been having a look at the classifieds. Previous...

Apparently a test-run for supporting the field hospital in the Excel Centre.

Just received the following via e-mail.

I couldn't possibly add to what has been said previously and repeated here other than to say that landing fees could be the least of our gripes in the long term.

There’s good news and bad news as the...

Charming film from 1957. Of special interest is Croydon airport just two years before it closed.

Hypothetical situation, you've got up to £5m to play with, plus a 30x30m hangar to store them in.

What three aircraft would you buy for…

1. Sheer flying joy.
2. Your kind of regular GA flying.
3. Beautiful to look at, even when parked.

If our...

We've just put the finishing touches on the new Farnborough airspace in our SkyDemon chart, so I thought I'd post a little screenshot of it here.

If anyone is using SkyDemon on their PC and wants early access to a preview of the chart so they can...

Seem to be unavailable for the last 3 hours or so, is this just me that is unable to go to the official source :?:

I find some of the news I've read this morning really depressing.

Some chap, a headteacher, has posted on twitter 'shaming' the free school meal provision for kids at home while schools are closed.

He posts a picture of the food. Looks like the...

…Is now online

I'm still learning.

PS The Paul Bertorelli video you'll want to see if you haven't already is…

Today I parted with a pot of gold.

I filled in a form and sent it, and the gold, to Vans.

:-D :D :D :D :D :D

G-JWTP

Sorry there should have been a photo in the space but I cocked that bit up.

Again, I cocked it up, and the picture is...

Hello everyone, I'm new to this forum :D

As a student pilot who is looking to train commercially in the future, I thought I would share my experience of learning to fly with Asperger's syndrome and hopefully give some advice and inspire others who...

In these gloomy times, it is good to be reminded of the scope of human ingenuity.

They gave the designer the sack.

This is the one question I really didn’t want to ask, but with virtually most businesses, (apart from key ones) shut, a lot are not going to survive.

All flying schools are, (rightly), closed now, and most if not all students are dependent on...

ORS4 1361

1) The Civil Aviation Authority, in exercise of its powers under article 266 of the Air Navigation
Order 2016 (‘the Order’), exempts any member of the United Kingdom Emergency Services
acting as the person in charge of a small unmanned...

Anyone with experience of these, care to recommend (or not) a stocks and shares ISA provider?

I'm most likely looking for a fully managed fund (yes I know the fees will be higher).

ORS4 No.1354

Outbreak: Extension of Validity Periods for Licences, Ratings and Certificates of Aircrew, Instructors, Examiners, Aircraft Maintenance Licence Holders and Air Traffic Controllers

In response to the exceptional circumstances caused by...

Does anyone here use a TRIG TT21?

Mine has a weird habit of just giving me a backlight with no text for about 25% of the times I turn it on. Nothing I can do will make it work once it decides to go on strike.

Then, for the next few flights it’s...

I have Chrome on an Android phone. I can clear all cookies the usual way (settings, privacy, etc etc) but one cookie shown in the clearance tick list refuses to be erased..... it's called MOD
I've connected up to a laptop and tried searching the...

Hi all,

Yes, I know we are grounded, but we must maintain our knowledge so todays video is here

So I thought that I'll temporarily explain more about why the weather is doing what it is doing in the weekend flying forecast PLUS give you a chance...

It's gonna be a long and difficult time without any flying I assume...made even worse by the best weather we have ever had in years, at least in the North East!!

Anyway...what can we do.

Any flight sim (or x-plane) addicted here? I am thinking...

Reports coming in of a B-17 crashing on landing at Bradley Airport, CT:

I had a short chat (only eight and a half minutes this time) with Thomas Borchert, chief editor of the German GA Mag fliegermagazin and Emmanuel Davidson, Managing editor of Aviation & Pilote in France. In the next could of days I should have a...

Anyone else watching this programme on BBC1? Could be classed as “slow” TV, but it’s fascinating to see the superb craftsmanship on display.

Ian

Zooniverse has transcription projects, looking at scanned documents and transcribing them to digital format. Rainfall rescue is one for example.

For the next few months NOTAMd and up to 1500 ft.
Well there goes my recreation of Operation Jericho in CW!

Flew Thruxton to Norfolk and back this weekend. Planned a straight line and on both outbound and inbound trips I requested and received a transit through Luton's Class D on track at 3,300' VFR. They could not have been more helpful or accommodating....

What the actual f... is wrong with some people.

Hey,
Just wondering if anyone knew of any intensive 'week-long' PPL(a) exam courses based in Kent? Its not to rush through them and get them out of the way, as I enjoy soaking up the knowledge and learning everything, its just about having a slot of...

Boredom at home, lovely flying weather! FR 24 showing 5 ground support vehicles at Manchester Airport are they now transponder equipped?? Or ADSB out?

After intense working from home for days due to the coronavirus, it was time for a little break at about lunch time. We made a trip around the Schiphol CTR to Zandvoort, Haarlem, Alkmaar and Amsterdam. We returned home recharged.

St.Bavo church...

Excellent levels of awareness of a global issue, but shocking levels of local prioritisation since the UK is 1% of global emissions.

IIRC China has an embassy in London, but of course China is the one nation that tried to tackle the actual cause...

Deep pockets are required.