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I was asked to do a SEP renwewal test for a CPL holder this week

For the past 6 years every time he renewed his IR the examiner also signed up his SEP rating. But the flight test had been done in an MEP and he had not flown a SEP at all in that...

I know some of you are thinking, "Don't be so Scilly"...! :clown:

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From Darren Fern on Facebook:

It's a helipad strip, and they are cautiously opening it up to suitable STOL aircraft. A slightly raised roadway 1/3 down...

who was the unlucky owner?

The "i" newspaper is today reporting that the UK will opt out of EASA (and Euratom :shock: ) as part of the brexit process. According to the paper, the hard brexit that the government is pursuing will lead to the UK opting out of anything...

I hear the sad news this morning that once again, the Calais restaurant is closed. At the very least, Reynald, the affable restaurant manager has parted company with the restaurant at the insistence of its owners. Performance during the trial period...

Pilot fined for flying without a licence

I'm aware that in the UK, some people have reported a difficulty activating flightplans. My understanding is that this is sometimes because of congestion on the radio, sometimes because the radio unit doesn't have the flightplan, and sometimes...

How do people get accurate in flight weather in the air? I appreciate that there is NEXRAD but that not much good in Europe. Its frustrating that in the US it just came over my iPad on Foreflight and it was amazing! Back home and, I know we can...

Hi Guys looking for a guru here.
My 172 has been maintained under lamp since I purchased it 8 years ago.
I understand this is now changing to MIPS (minimum insection) or I can go with the manufacturers POH recommendations.
That's understood, so if I...

Hi everyone, I'm Ignat Solovey — cameraman, English-speaking voice and international relations guy at FlightTV.ru — the only Russian (and, I suppose, the only in the world in such format) dedicated video program about general aviation.
We tell...

I want to sharpen up my flying skills and have always wanted to try aerobatics. So my one hour validation session seems like a good time to do this. Any recommendation on the best school to do this with?

I'm in Hemel Hempstead on so anywhere...

Dan Snow on 'bloody April' and more. I've not heard any of this before and can recommend it. Cecil Lewis particularly, remembering the flying and Albert Ball.

I don't appear here very often these days however:
Yesterday I was looking down on a PA28 whilst getting towards the top of a Winch Launch!!. Not funny

People - if you wish t live long and prosper - stop flying over Winch launch sites - the max...

I am pleased to confirm details of the 2017 event, which will be held on SUNDAY 25th JUNE 2017 , and will see a return to Gloucester, which hosted the event in 2014.

In selecting a venue, our "wish list" was for somewhere that had ATC and...

Just wondering...

I think someone once said to me it took 20 tonnes of fuel.

May have been posted before but worth watching

Seems they do not allow visitors at weekends. Shame have been before and if BH weather nice a great destination.
Just called FISO said staffing and security issues but hopes it changes in the future. Fingers crossed hey?!
Tim

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I just want to check that I have understood this correctly:

There is a TMZ at Stansted from SFC to 1500 with class D on top from 1500 to 3500...

So if you want to pass under the class D and through the TMZ you need to be below 1500 and have your...

Just wondering if it was an easy/difficult process to put, say, an F or D reg (or anything!) aircraft on G-reg. Thinking of Gp A aeroplanes like C182/210 etc.

Seen loads for sale in Europe/US and intrigued as to what's required.

CAA website is as...

Are there any general rules that would prevent you from filling up your aircraft with fuel from jerry cans whilst at a controlled airfield? Or does it depend on the individual airfield?

For instance, if you were to land at, say, Cardiff or...

Talking Pictures, Freeview 81, 0415

Cheesy plot, some nice aeroplanes!

'Canadian bush pilot Red North, in love with school teacher Hilary Ward, encounters trouble when his half-brother, Paul Girard, muscles in on his territory and his girl. During...

Take note, especially if planning to close up a dH wing in the morning.

I wonder how this came to light?

Pleased be advised that the Honiley VOR/DME will be taken out of service early September for Replacement work.

The start date has been brought forward, and is a change to the original schedule. The exact dates of the outage will be notified via...

Am i correft that for a Class 1 or 2 medical you are grounded at the end of the 26th week.

But does anyone know what applies with the Medical Declaration?

Hi,

Recently while sitting "down here" wishing I was "up there", I saw a YouTube video from the US with what I assume were spoken audio messages from either a panel mounted GPS or ForeFlight on an iPad. While taxiing towards...

(New thread to not detract from bravery and skill of microlight instructor).

After reading the airprox report, I took a look at the stats. The standout item is a rapid change of trend on GA/GA airprox over the last few years, which says something...

From the student forum, lots of meandering around about what an orbit ISN'T.

No one prepared to say what you should do if asked to orbit.

I thought it was a rate one turn. In circuit direction if in a circuit.

Orbited out near a coast recently...

Very little information here.

I'm trying to locate the rules relating to operating at airfields with parachute operations.

In particular who has priority, an aircraft in the circuit or a drop plane approaching at altitude for a drop.

I can't find anything in the ANO and the...

Are they compulsory, do I need to find a supplier?

New toy arrived today which was collected from Old Warden (free landings, splendid!).

In the circuit at Gloucestershire.

Looking forward to some fun flying :D :D

Crikey.

How cool....

On Facebook and web url...

Due to major runway drainage and re-grading works, and also a motor-racing event in March, there are significant implications for operations at Goodwood Aerodrome for the next 6 months or so. Key points are as follows (note: I post this as a...

Guys, asking a favour: Every small airfield in the Southern UK appears to under threat of disappearing. Fairoaks in Surrey is just one slated disappear to make way for a New Town if the developers get their way. You can help stop it by forcing the...

Does anybody know this airfield? I'm flying the group Cessna 182 on a trip to France and Spain in August and the landing/handling fees at some of the big AENA airports are positively horrifying (Salamanca comes in at nearly 300 Euros which is crazy...

Hi All,
I have SkyDemon on my iPAD Air 2, which uses Stratux via GDL90 to provide GPS and Traffic information.

I was testing this at the weekend at an airfield where there is some ADS-B out planes. While sitting stationary on the ground (as...

Lucky it stayed below 100ft :roll: , and spot the spelling mistake :lol:

Does anybody know if Is it possible to pinpoint a given Lat/Long on the map in Skydemon? (for example, the exact location of a notam

Thanks

Hi,

I will speak to the CAA about this but wondered if somebody here might know the way I need to do this....

My aircraft was badly damaged (by wind, flapping canvas and flapping steel attached to the flapping canvas) and has taken an absolute age...

Hi everyone,
My name is Siouxsie Taylor and I am a postgraduate student at the University of Aberdeen. As part of my thesis project for my master of research degree, I am conducting a questionnaire which looks into non-technical skills and risk...

So long story short, it's my father's 70th later this year. He is a retired RAF wing commander. I have a piece of wood that was taken from a pear tree that was chopped down in his father's garden (also the house he grew up in). The wood was cured...

Boyhood hero of mine...

And the currently unnamed* gentleman sitting in the Hurricane cockpit is another, Robert Stanford Tuck.

* have taken it upon myself to email the BBC and suggest they might like to acknowledge RST in the article.

Can anybody clarify the position on this?

I would like to take our Chipmunk, which is on a Permit to Fly, to France. The LAA have sent me their standard leaflets that confirm a blanket permit to fly UK home-built a/c in France but is unhelpful on...

Thats it really,
Are they stripped down re wound, bearing changed, brushes changed, springs re sprung, diodes lubricated( Im showing my ignorance here as I don't believe diodes are involved) or is it just a bench check and a paperwork exercise ?...

Microlight pilot fined for Manchester Class D airspace bust. He received a fine of £1,675 - how does that compare with the fine for flying without a valid licence of £600?