... or Prof Brian Cox :lol:
The new £50 note will feature a prominent British scientist, the Bank of England has announced, with the public being asked for nominations.

In addition to the Queen, the note will include the portrait of an eminent...

Hi,
Can I fly in Europe on a LAPL with a self declare medical?
Thanks,
Mike

Hi All,

I’m planning a flight elstree to Shoreham this Sunday and noticed there is a large area notam in place due to a major gliding competition taking place at Wycombe.

Our options are:

1) route to the south via stokenchurch while in radio...

I shared in my post "When's it too late..?" that I want to become a commercial pilot. It's a deliberate career change choice based on wanting to realise a boyhood wish. So I've decided it really is now or never.

I have booked in for my...

I felt distinctly left out last night talking to Farnboro LARS in not having a callsign consisting of a repeat colour and a number "Orange Orange 02, White White 01 etc" - mostly rotary I think, and in one case heading to Lasham.

I don't...

Hello everyone,

I am interested in learning to fly but unsure on what route to take, and I am wondering if anyone would be so kind as to offer some advice.

I am currently a university student and have always been interested in flying. I would love...

Hi everyone,

With a very busy weekend, a pilot lost his ipad last Friday. is he here or does anyone know him? we found it in the grass next to the parking! that he contacts me with his callsign by PM :-D

There is a code to unlock so no false...

This is the chance to shine for all new - and sometimes not so new - pilots!

This thread celebrates any noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial - to be cast into internet eternity...

Don't do it!

Keep going.

After battles with motion sickness, weather, spiralling costs and hours, radio comms, terrible landings... I recently flew solo after everything finally fell into place.

It's worth it in the end!

:thumleft:

I am thinking about heading to Donegal at the end of July, departing from Oxford, for a long weekend. Cessna 182. VFR. I would be with one non-pilot passenger, sensible chap, briefed on high probability of weather not cooperating and EasyJet on...

Just flew a coupled visual approach into Fowlmere EGMA using the updated firmware (version 6.51) on G-BVWZ's GTN 750 . Amazing :D :D

On the approach database "visual 07" and "visual 25" have appeared where there was nothing...

These EC threads, and a couple of other things this last week have had me checking out FR24 more than I would otherwise have done. I have noticed that when it comes to GA traffic, most is detected via MLAT - ie Mode S, only a few via ADSB. I was...

Has anyone learned to fly wearing varifocals?

Given my hours, I should be timing the round out and flare more consistently and my instructor(s) are both concerned the cause could be depth perception arising from wearing varifocals.

Does anyone...

My intention is to use this topic as a kind of running diary of my adventure at the WIAC 2019.

A couple of forumites asked if I could keep them informed, so I thought that this might be a nice way to do it. This won't be just a trip report, which...

20:20 Sunday 14/07/19, BBC4 has just stopped transmitting an interesting and planned and expected documentary on the Space Shuttle, and started showing tennis doubles at Wimbledon. No notice; no "we're sorry this is more interesting".

I'm...

Looking for a feral FAA A&P with an IA to do the next annual on Ye Olde Comanche. It lives in a well lit, centrally heated hangar with plenty of space and tea making facilities. I would like to participate (if time is available) because it’s...

I’ve just received my PPL licence back from the CAA after passing my skills test. It is titled European Union Flight Crew Licence. I was expecting it to be titled Private Pilots a licence or similar . Flight crew suggests to me any number of...

I'm fairly new to flying and I'm currently learning (having had five lessons) - I'm thoroughly enjoying it so far.

Does anyone have any good (simple) guides on what to say to tower?

It sounds pretty simple but I'm afraid I get a little tongue...

Hi All,

New here, so go easy on me :) I did read some other topics and found some relevance to the questions I’m asking but would like to say my own situation and get some friendly advice, if possible. Hope it’s not seen as duplication

I’m...

What do you do?

With all the talk of drones at present I thought this might be of interest. It came to my attention via LinkedIn.

At first I didn't quite believe what I was reading but it seems like a successful system.

{Mods - couldn't quite pigeon hole this...

On my way down to Malta a few weeks ago, I decided to stop off for a couple of days on the beautiful island of Elba.

This 12 minute video is drawn from the flight into Elba from Cannes. We pick up the flight in the cruise approaching Corsica at...

Yesterday, landing at Bahrain International, I hit the big 800! Not hours, obviously, but airports landed at so far in my flying career.

A quick perusal of the logbook shows these were over 14 years, 2,500 hours, and 54 countries (ok, to be fair...

I am copying this from the LAA site as air to air collisions are a very real danger if the CAA instructions are not absorbed first !!!

2020 Rally

Postby Brian Hope » Fri Jul 12, 2019 8:43 am
Hi David, 038 was actually withdrawn some weeks ago,...

Of all the military/aviation etc books I’ve read over the years, I’ve only ever read one “sub” book, and that was a WWI era piece of fiction.

I don’t mind if they are fact or fiction tbh, just “a good read”.

family holiday last week was near...

Can anyone point me to where a list of maintenance (repairs/replacement) allowed by a PPL is defined?

It used to be in Air navigation (general) Regulation 16 but this appears to no longer exist.

WANTED: Bose X/A10 and / or Lightspeed Zulu X for passenger. PM me.

The Lord Kirkhope Report .

I just spent a good time typing this in answers to questions I was asked to find the thread had been locked whilst typing at the suggestion of a gentleman who has made no contribution to the thread at all. Surely this is not what moderation has come...

The common size size tyres fitted to Jodels is 420x150.
These tyres are now well over £200 each.
It may be worth changing wheels to fit a cheaper and more widely available tyre.
Has anyone done this?
Any information for supply of suitable...

Taking into account Mr Bouchet’s guilty plea and the fact that it had taken some time for the matter to come to Court, Assistant Magistrate Peter Harris imposed a fine of £2,000

As aviation-related disciplinary action lies outside the Court's...

This clamps onto the tailwheel axle bolts and comes with a suitable length of tow rope. I have used this for over thirty years to move my a/c off its parking spot, and on one occasion to tow it the whole length of our grass strip. I just could not...

Flying to Le Touquet from Stapleford for the night, with a reputation as the most elegant holiday resort of northern France, this chic French resort offers plenty to do, and it’s only 1 hours flight from London

We fly back the day after with some...

This track has proved essential when moving my a/c in an out of its shed for over 20 years. It has been dismantled into four 2 metre lengths and can be re-assembled using two 10mm bolts at each joint (existing joint plate and 10mm bolts remain at...

This Murdoch/Barton one-man rigging aid is specifically for a Grob G109B, and has served me well for over 30 years. The wheels allow the wing to be moved between folded and rigging positions, while the adjustable post supports the wingtip while you...

I need to go to a meeting at Whiteley, near Fareham.

In the past I have flown into Southampton, but I don't see this as viable anymore.

Lee on Solent would be good, but I assume it is closed to non resident aircraft? A farm strip would be...

Not just ‘no flying’ but ‘STRICTLY no flying’. Amazing what gets through the system these days.

Hi all,
Monday morning I’m going to have a look around a flight school and have a 1hr trial lesson. My ambition is to gain my ATPL. What questions should I be asking and what should I be looking for in a flight school?

Sent from my iPhone using...

Thought I should post this.

E mailed Smooth Aviation Tuesday to report faulty carbon fibre ANR headset.
Text from DHL Thursday. Delivery of replacement Friday.
Well done Smooth Aviation. Thank you.

Not seen anything on here about this and I thought it would be of interest to forumites.

The BBC World Service are running a series on the Apollo programme, the starting point and series title is the last thirteen minutes before Apollo 11 land on...

When I learned to fly, they were flying schools - at least in the UK - but now, more and more often, I see them referred to as flight schools - both by the clients and the schools themselves.

Is it simply a creeping Americanisation of our language...

Perhaps it will have a niche appeal north of Watford.

NOW SOLD.

Inline lead to connect intercom audio to an audio device/records

Reasonable offers accepted!

Hello all. New to the forum. I was wondering if anybody has the above for sale?

Regards

All items, reasonable offers accepted (+p&p)

Pooleys CRP-5, RRP: £75.95

Pooley Divider/Compass: RRP: £10

Jepp SPRM (this is no longer used in exams but alot of knowledge banks still have questions from it)

Jepp GPRSM (this is the NEW one...

I rarely go to London but when I last did it was almost like being in a different country - one with a very different economic cycle.

I've read a couple of things recently that make me wonder what we can do as a country to balance things out a bit...

The first prize in the Project Propeller prize draw was 2 tickets to RIAT on 21st July. The winner now can't attend, so has kindly donated the tickets back to us. The tickets also allow you to bring as many under 18s as you have, so it's essentially...

Hi

I have a permit plane with a Trio autopilot that needs an NMEA data source. Until now I have used the output from a Lowrance GPS. However I now propose to use Skydemon as my main GPS with a small AV8R as backup. As the data output from the AV8R...