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Shoreham to Le Touquet

Study most likely route using paper charts
Enter route into the CFMU website, and realise it'll only accept a much more circuitous route
Fill in a flight plan
Fax flight plan to Heathrow, with a minimum of 3 hours notice...

Hey Guys/Gals,

I've just been asked about life in the UK by a Belgian guy that the company wants to sent to the UK (London area) with a similar COLA to mine (see below). Can anyone confirm a full package price for Flying in the UK...

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Having yesterday accquired an aeroplane (more on which later..) that included an Icom A2 transceiver, I now need to buy the headset adaptor so I can use my Dave Clark headset, and also a PTT button to attach to to the stick.

Now I've had a look...

If anyone has rotorheads contact details can they please ask him to call BLUEROBIN on 07961884828

Thanks!

Everyone knows what there but no one knows where to get one.

I wonder if someone, e.g. dogspeak or bookworm could please dig out the METARS reported at LFAT for this day?

Full s.p. to follow.

I know there are some groups that operate like this but it would be nice to have at every airfield a non profit flying club such as they have in France consisting of several public cat aircraft available to members at a nice cheap wet rate with no...

In the last wad of stuff mailed from the CAA to registered aircraft owners, there is the accident/incident report collection and there is a load of reports of Thielert engine problems (Diamond DA40 mostly). They even say that such and such is a...

I get to fly an aeroplane with a Garmin 430 GPS. I was wondering how many pilots with this GPS or similar bother to learn and use its many functions, for eg. vertical navigation. The manual is a weighty document describing all kinds of wonderful...

A professional question - anyone heard/know of the airfield at Fordoun in Scotland (approx 10nm NE of Montrose)? A quicky through Google doesn't give much other than a microlight pilot's story.

Points of contact, activity etc would be...

I see from looking on the FAA website that my steed has a Mode S Code of 53253340.

I have not installed Mode S, nor asked for it to be done. Have all aircraft on all registries been issued with unique codes?

I went to Shipdham for their fly-in and ended up in a glider :-)

It was most excellent. I was aloft for 20 minutes and loved the experience. I can see why this sort of flying is popular.... although there were no thermals, so gravity won in short...

Anybody got any experience of Bayreuth (near Nuernberg) and Eggenfelden (near Muenchen)? Both seem like quiet little airports recently connected to the German IFR system, but any reviews welcome please.

My thoroughly enjoyable day yesterday did get off to a strange start. I noticed that when I was looking at the weather etc I couldn't quite see all the screen. To read a date on NavBox I had to look slightly askance - it was like a '/' in my left...

:( Could do with a little help with the following please.

At present our group are concidering the purchase of an N reg aircraft and we are getting some conflicting advice regarding how to aquire a US licence and stay current.

1.Do we require an...

Hacketstown

Anyone been there? I phoned and they were very accomodating. The book says 430m or something, marginal for the Warrior to get out again, but the chap on the phone says they have 700m for takeoff which would be fine. But any real life...

I have a BMW which has a lot of computer input and I live just at the bottom of the low level corridor near Manchester. The other day the car was in the house drive and the computer suddenly went mad and flashed up all sorts of warnings, in fact it...

I need to the parts to retrofit co-pilot brakes to a PA28 any good recomendations for parting organisations in the States. The few here seem to work on 50% of list retail (ie quite expensive).

Another crazy report or not. This from the Scotsman

Air travel sets a new course for green skies

THEY are a potent symbol of the jet age and a form of aerial artistry that decorates clear blue skies. With the massive rise in global air...

Hello, this is my first post here!

I'm not a pilot but have a great interest in aviation and design. I'm a final year student at Coventry University and for my final major project will be designing the cockpit of a 4 seater GA aircraft for the year...

There's a NOTAM talking about this ICAO code being allocated in Jan 2005.

Anybody know what this place will be for? Heliport? GA fixed wing? Microlight? Commercial? Government? ...

And does anyone have co-ordinates for it?

Flew down from Carlisle via Manchester today at FL90 in the lee of the Pennines. Being a flatland pilot, I've never experienced mountain waves of that magnitude before. Amazing! I left the autopilot on and it held altitude, but with 20 kt airspeed...

I am soooooooooooooooo **** off. I had meticulously looked at the NOTAMS (Notam plot very interesting compared with the same search on the AIS website) and thought tomorrow I am going to achieve one of my great PPL ambitions - to the Scilly Isles...

From BBC News :

The hunt is on for a pilot who crashed his hot air balloon into a house during a birthday pleasure flight and then fled the scene.

Jacqui Simmons had bought Sunday's trip for boyfriend James Lant as a present.

She said the...

Okay, so you've made it to that certain age where health rather than a visit from the grim-reaper dictates you're about to fly your last flight. Ignoring the fact you can still be knicked and prosecuted, is there anything you would do that you...

Got to go to Mansfield on Friday.

Looking at the map there are quite a few contenders:

Netherthorpe is too short for me.

Hucknall is marginal, 750m of wet grass ain't great - I am concerned about how good the surface is.

That leaves...

There was a thread some months ago about the effect of EASA on maintenance, including engine TBO. The thread was inconclusive.

Does anybody have information on (withan EASA reference) changes to the UK maintenance regime; specifically changes to...

My mate has a UK CAA PPL.

Does this fulfil the requirements to hold a UK/JAR-FCL licence for certain aviation activities?

Specifically, microlight differences training.

Steve R

I got my FAA PPL just over 2 years ago on a chance trip to Florida. Can't remember what the validity requirements are to keep it current. I've done loads of flyig since then. Do I need to do a bi-annual check or some thing or will my valid JAA CPL...

Can anyone describe this manoever...?

I'd also be interested to find out exactly what a 'Ruade' and a 'Mulleroid' is, if anyone has a an idea.....

I'm thinking of having a go.... :shock:

I'm getting concerned over cost saving in the UK.

Just heard a new outfit is planning to operate ten of these exec choppers for VIP's out of Battersea.

Know anything Sniff and Rotor? :lol: :lol:

Any chance someone can explain the reason why clouds form at different levels, in a simple manner?

For example a layer of stratus/stratocumulus at low level, say 800' and then a further layer of cloud at 4500' and then another at 25000'.

I...

A PFA project perhaps :lol: :lol:

Today I was told that Jim Hilton the Chief flying instructor and owner of the old IMC flying school has passed away , he died on Saturday after a heart attack , Jim had stopped flying himself due to bad health some time ago and that was a loss to us...

Hi all

does anyone know where I can get a strong RAM suction mount for the 296 in the UK? its for mounting it to the side window..lots of em around in the states but cant find one for the 296 over here

much appreciated

Bill Padley

Saddness:

8 months preparation and suddenly the flight of the lifetime is cancelled. My trip to Mali with other 6 aeroplanes is no more. Doubts on fuel availability at three airports and postponement of the Hercules arrival at Gao have forced us...

I have set up fax machine auto-dials for submitting Flight Plans to Heathrow, GENDECs to Special Branch and Customs, and these all work well. 8)

But Immigration is far more difficult, as it's a Biggin Hill number (+44 1959 572225), and their fax...

Thought I would experiment a bit with the (fairly old) auto pilot on the Arrow I fly.

Not sure where the instruction manual is so was wondering if someone might be able to answer a few questions.

There is a rotary switch which by memory has...

Hi guys n gals.

LASORs (A-17) say computerised logbooks are OK for sending to the CAA, just sign each printed page as being correct.

They don't say whether you still need to keep a paper logbook. Frankly, mine's about 5 years out of date...

I need to buy the following, any supplier suggetions??

3x rivet gun

Rivet dimplings tools (22 and vise grip)

2 Hand squeezer - with changable heads if possible.

Dimple die kit

bucking bars & rivet sets

Clecos

Contersink cage and cutters...

Assuming the gloomy predictions for the future of Avgas prove true and its no longer available after say ten years what plans are folks making?

My concern is that at the rate I fly my engine (a Lyc IO540) will reach its tbo in about 3/5 years, do...

Out of curiosity I printed off the approach plates for St Mary's on the Scilly Isles today. On the plate for the NDB(L) RWY 27 in the plan form it shows the inbound heading to the NDB is 275 and for the missed approach it is (the dotted line) also...

Good old Rob S. :wink:

Are you looking for a good hiding from the forum ?

:lol:

Is it just me, or does anyone else find the tone of GASIL just a little patronising, with introductory paragraphs like:

Although we have no official confirmation, we are reliably informed that one of the modern generation of light aeroplanes...

Forgive me for asking what is probably a very stupid question, but it is a long, long time since I had a Night Rating but no Instrument qualification, and it even then it was only for a few months.

This evening I was flying in night VMC with 40km...

Does anybody know what is hapening to the flying club? I know there has been meetings going on for a while, and that we are in financial trouble.

Any news please let me know.

See for more details.

DG

If you're travelling in South America (as you do) and you feel the need for your flying 'fix', I recommend a flight over the Nazca lines in Peru. For the unitiated, a lost civilisation in the south of Peru carved these enormous geoglyphs in the...

Was just wondering if anyone knows the latest from Swansea? I know that Air Wales are due to pull out but was wondering if this is due to affect the flying club in any way. For example, I've heard that the Approach facility is due to be relpaced by...

Hi all,

I'm planning a trip from the UK to Dublin next week and would like some advice from other pilots who've made similar journeys before.

First of all I'm a PPL with IMC and Night and around 500 hours flying time. I'll be flying next week...