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At its best, the Flyer Forum continues to be a valuable resource for the General Aviation community

It is a place where flyers of all experience levels can meet to discuss and exchange up-to-date undistorted...

Today kicks off FLYER Live and Learn To Fly Week!

You can join us live each evening from 7-9pm (Friday is exclusive to FLYER Club members only).

Just visit live.flyer.co.uk to find out more, read about the exhibitors, see the schedule and watch...

There have been a few unacceptable posts of late. Please take a look at the Code of Conduct and post accordingly. Identifying individuals by anonymous is a BIG no no!

Be nice, considerate and polite.
If you can't make your point without a...

“After a solo flight away from base, it’s nice to meet up and have a chat over a cuppa.” ........at the land away airfield.

Following a request (thank you Waveflyer!) we will have, until further notice, a dedicated sticky post on the GA where...

Here are the current threads regarding Coronavirus/COVID-19

Main discussions:
COVID-19 and General Aviation

The following were previously stickied and in lieu of having the time to consolidate them are linked here:
AOPA guidance Ratings...

Are Manchester likely to agree to a routing direct to Barton via their overhead? The obvious routing from here would take me via the Macclesfield South VRP and direct overhead Manchester. Assuming that via the overhead (or one or other end of the...

About 2.20 minutes in.

(ignore the last 15 seconds :D )

The longest trip thus far was Gloucester to Great Massingham and back. Skyecho up on the right hand side of the windscreen. Connection to Skydemon all good.

I saw a small number of contacts all of no interest but I'm not sure whether the FLARM...

Not quite GA, but near enough! :D

In less than 30 minutes, there will be an attempted landing on Mars. Follow the official NASA livestream here:

Or follow the slightly geekier NASA Spaceflight.com livestream here:

Fingers crossed!

Who can raise a (legit) MOR? Perhaps everyone should be raising one every time they witness CAT breaking the law in such a dangerous way?

If the CAA then systematically ignore every report relating to a controlled ATZ but take action for every...

Seems to have been today...

My letter to the CAA from the current issue

Ian

Picked up a Design4 pilots A6 kneeboard a couple of weeks ago as being a better size for my sky ranger cockpit. For years on every other kneeboard, like with maps, I've used staedtler permanent fine markers to write information on the clear plastic...

Flying to the north of Oxford yesterday, we had reason to change our plan and fly south, crossing Brize zone.

I am not familiar with the area.

The miracle that is SkyDemon quickly displayed the frequencies for Brize - all nine of them (including...

I think I understand the first to formalise the correction to the under-2000kg mess.

How significant is the other one?

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.

Finally confirmation from the CAA regarding IR(R) holders and the need for PBN training and testing:

Basically, you don’t need to be trained and tested on PBN but you are advised to do so if you plan to fly PBN approaches.

If only the...

Afternoon All,

I'm looking at buying an aircraft powered by a VW 1834cc engine with Leburg ignition which has no starter motor. I had a go at hand-propping it to get it started, however I couldn't (safely!) get enough force into the throw to get it...

Follow Guy Martin as he takes a look at the training of WW2 fighter pilots. A Tiger Moth and Harvard star thig evening, with air combat training and an exciting finale next week! 8)

Why multiple planes and helicopters have been flying in strange patterns over Cheshire - reporting at it's finest :roll:

As some of you may be aware, Redhill Aerodrome are appealing against Reigate & Banstead Council's decision to order the re-reinstatement the Taxiway C/D to its original condition, as they have ruled that it was not within permitted development...

Times today ( SAT APRIL 17th ) page 43

Your 150 word on board onboard safety measure will be in Wesh ?

It says so in the notams .

In this post I will try and set out some, hopefully useful, information around medical certificates.

Please note that it is your responsibility to check and ensure that you have the required combination of licence and medical for the flying you are...

Apologies if I should not be posting this but as a longstanding Flyer Forumite I thought some people might like to know I've recently written a book about Yuri Gagarin's incredible orbit of the Earth exactly sixty years ago - the first human in...

Had to fly there twice for training & test few weeks ago, hats off to Jersey ATC for 3 things:

- The only choice I had to fly an ILS during a renewal test as every airport in west of France had it's ILS U/S or no ATC: Rennes, Brest, Quimper,...

I've been given a heads up about cataracts by my ophthalmic guy. Not a problem yet but...
Has anybody had the problem and solved it?
What's the best surgical treatment when it comes to flying?
At the moment I'm wearing varifocals plus a spare pair...

Got back up today and can report...

Landings were fine.

Initial go through checklist and startup and radio calls were scrappy but improved as day went on.

Ability to fly sensible shaped circuits was ropey. Even when it improved over the day it...

Anyone had to do this yet?

I have my identification verified by the CAA

I’m now allowed the “medical service”

I’ve registered with Cellma

However...

There’s no forms to fill in
No way to contact about this

I’m a bit baffled! :?

As we become more relaxed, can we revisit who is open and when please.

Sherburn has new café operators - the most excellent couple from the Maltings just down the road. An absolute breath of fresh air today and we are looking forward to much better...

Well done PPLMEIR in another thread for flagging this, as I was between jobs, I chose to scan it.

While I am not aware of the background leading up you feeling the need to write this letter to the CAA, as a standalone document, I must say that I...

NATS have apparently regained the contract for providing ATC staff for ATC services at Gatwick airport wef Oct 2022.
Approach control services never moved but aerodrome and GMC will once again be provided by NATS.
Not that anyone on here will be...

I know hangarage costs for aeroplanes has been discussed many times, but has anyone got an idea how much it costs to hangar a helicopter these days ?

Morning all!

I currently have an ipad 10.7" inch screen I belive which I have used a few times when flying while running skydemon however I think it would be more convinient to have a smaller one as I plan to convert to microlights when...

Hi flyers

I am looking to upgrade my tablet hardware and then purchase software for VFR flying.

I appreciate these topics have been covered before at various times, however I am seeking advice from fellow VFR flyers re: the latest information and...

I accidentally infringed 2 days ago on departure from Blackbushe.

What a confusing piece of airspace this is. For me, it's the fact you're already in the CTR, so crossing out of the ATZ doesn't sound any alarms. Combine this with the noise...

I'm in need of a new headset and been looking at the CQ-1 ( ) and the QT Halo ( ) instead of the usual over the head design which I've always found uncomfortable. Also, they seem to have great noise reduction and are much cheaper than an ANR headset...

Now, call me old fashioned but surely if you check the fuel gascolator drain on any aircraft and it locks open and fuel continues to pour out, you'd:

a) close it. Or, if you can't
b) call an engineer
c) not be dumb enough to go flying and lose all...

If you tuned into Flyer Live on Thursday 15th April you may have seen Ian interview Textron's UK representative about how well their range of a/c is selling this year despite the Pandemic.

Textron make amongst others the Cessna range of which he...

...have the UK air traffic control service you would wish for.

Having just seen this on a different thread...

If only we had integrated air traffic control services in the UK working together to expedite ALL flights rather than a whole collection...

Does anyone know what the current situation is for processing of FCL ratings and renewals?

I have several outstanding, the oldest of which is now just approaching 6 months. This is obviously ridiculous, but i've failed to get any form of response...

Just been flying again today - blissful! :D

One thing struck me, though, and that is how few people are stating the airfield where they are flying at both the beginning and the end of the transmission.

I'd estimate that fewer than 10% of the...

Hi! Has anybody first hand experience with one of these Chinese ANR headsets?

Yueny ANR AH 2080

Yueny ANR AH 2880

Raytalk PH 100AC

Raytalk PH 100 AC BT

I intend to replace a DC 10.13.4. Do I have to expect worse build quality, worse...

I know 'it's only 164 metres', but this is going to extend the centrelines and therefore the CTA and make it even more likely to accidently infringe with the current squeeze on airspace, isn't it?

Pin out, throw grenade, wait for the bang....

If you have a cellular tablet but don't want to pay for a full contract for flying, it might be useful. You get a free sim and in exchange for registering you get 200mb per month free. Might be enough for weather and planning on SkyDemon.

Following on from another thread I was thinking, what do people do to try and stop themselves from becoming a statistic.

None of us are infallible - being imperfect myself I am very much aware of that.

What do you do in aviation to try and stop...

Need to park up at Blackpool (or Warton, but guess that's unlikely) for a few days. Would prefer to be hangared although not essential. I'll call the airport next week, but does anyone know of any good options?

Thanks

Ian

Our group operated aeroplane ( high value sport homebuilt) suffered a ground handling incident late last year, the insurers liability even after excess payment will be circa £15K + .

understandably, our groups members are anxious that the...

Has anybody here got an RV10, ideally with a nosewheel, who would be available for an offline chat? I'm trying to put some information together in aid of some modifications for a disabled person who I'm helping with the design of a planned build.

G

M Fournier celebrated his 100th birthday yesterday (14 April) -- still going very strong. Plans for a Fournier fly-in and party were cancelled for the usual reason, but hopefully there will be a gathering next year.

I began my tailwheel conversion training at Little Gransden on Saturday in a Cessna 140. I am absolutely, totally smitten; loved every minute of it. It took a while to get used to a totally different aircraft, and there were a few bouncy landings,...

Serious question here. We all know about the proliferating "handling fee" thing that is happening at a lot of airports. Handling has been around for "major" airports and most foreign places for many years.
In the old days it was...