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

As a number of people have been so incredibly helpful in the past, I thought it might be worth a try! :D

I now have to collect a Bulldog from East Winch (Marham zone) on Thursday, looks like pretty reasonable weather, and if that fits in with...

If the weather is ok I hope to fly to Calais tomorrow.

I plan to stay a couple of hours, have a coffee and buy some calvados.

Any suggestions on where to tell the taxi driver to go.

I have not been to Calais before so any hints,...

Some advice would be appreciated, on this. Due to the shortened daylight hours, rotten weather etc etc, I want t get a simulator for my computer.

Having only mastered the basic machine somewhat late in life, these things are still something of a...

Has anyone got or using one of the Trafficscope systems?

Interested to know how it performs, with a view to purchasing.

I realise it's not a full TCAS system or a replacement for the mk1 eyeball & visual scanning, but anything thats an...

We entered cloud at around FL60 and didn't come out of it until just above the approach lights at EGTC.

I know that you prefer to hand-fly. JAAMOI how much of the above would be on autopilot?

Get here fast!

Rob P

Prompted by a couple of other threads I sometimes wonder about the practicality of getting airborne without being able to check the operation of nav equipment. The field I fly from is a bit of a backwater location and has nothing more than a couple...

Have been thinking a lot about buying one... There is one going in Denmark at the moment; 20000 Eur with a decent TT and time remaining on the engine. Have read a lot about the type as well, seems most people approach it with caution - especially...

Anyone interested in seeing if they are fit to be a commercial pilot try website they have online aptitude tests.

Hi,

I had some vouchers though in the post the other week for the Transair shop at Gloucester airport. After an aborted trip last weekend I put them away somewhere and now I can't find the bloody things.

I don't suppose anyone else received...

Hi,

As you may have seen I have set a few threads running regarding the subject of GPS & coordinates and I value your input. Here is another one for the pot. As a low hours PPL currently using an ETrex as a backup unit, I'm thinking of buying one...

I wasn't hearing things. It was a genuine item on t' radio news.

Some chap is planning an air taxi service for London using STOL aircraft and sticking short (under 300m) strips next to Railway termini, industrial complexes, along rivers etc all...

Got a new job in Italy :D

Does any one know of any flying clubs in the Brindisi area??

Have checked at BDS but got no joy :cry:

Thanks in advance

VEEPS

Two questions for the ATCOs.

1) I took off this evening, without an FPL, VFR from Biggin. I was given an IFR transit through City, then an IFR transit through Luton. I then free-called EMA for RIS, free-called LBA for an airways crossing and LBA...

This has probably been asked a few times but I have been entering aerodrome coordinates manually into my trusty Garmin ETrex as a backup nav aid.

Rather than do this manually does anyone have a text file or spreadsheet with aerodrome code and...

Guys, I enjoy reading all the threads but its a real drag when you use the EGXX or the LFXX as I haven't a clue which airfields you are referring to apart from LFAT I can't remember any of them.

Also BDB's a WAR's also mean nothing so trying to...

Three of us were planning to get to Courchevel for a few days flying and walking. Peter and I were aiming for the Altiport rating and Richard was along for the fun.

Having enjoyed a recent beautiful week of unbroken sunshine in Cornwall, I...

On returning from Compton Abbas last Friday & entering the flights in my

logbook, I was chuffed to see that I'd completed 50 hrs P1 in a year for the first time since getting my licence in 1996. There were 52 flights, involving 19 different...

Following on from an earlier thread, I've decided that I'd like to take a ditching survival course. Two questions. Can anyone recommend any particular courses? and does anyone else want to come along?!

........ or maybe they do.

A document dropped through my letterbox last week, entirely unconnected with aviation.

However there was a sentence that surprised me:

First Islamic Bank's investments include Cirrus Industries Inc., a...

Re the thread on Scottish ATC questions, as a student flying various dual and solo navs around southern Scotlandfrom Carlisle around southern Scotland I have found Scottish FIS extremely helpful with traffic information. However as it is an FIS,...

I don't know if the Forum appreciates these little stories, but if in case not, let me know and I'll refrain myself.

The little piper yesterday.

Yesterday I went flying with the little piper. It was exactly a year since I had last flown her....

Check out for a good selection of aerobatic, and bush flying pics and video clips.

:lol:

:? Can anyone please point me in the direction of the cheapest place to buy a Bose X headset , or do you know of a second hand set for sale ??

Super stuff! It's actually a Bristol 170 Mk32 Wayfarer of Silver City Airways. Pity you can't see the reg, I could have written it down in my book! :D

In an attempt to keep Vinatge ATCO happy, I have done some more digging, and have now found the

just wondering if anyone has used a Garmin Etrex as a backup to NAV, If so is it any good,

Thanks

Short Field

AIUI acceleration error will cause a normal artificial horizon to indicate a climbing turn to the right on take off (in an aircraft with high enough performance..), but I don't understand why this error would be to the left on an electric...

I understand that a holder of an ICAO Commercial ticket is excempt from some of the tests required by the JAA Class 1 medical......and hence the class 1 initial cost is about half the price. I was wondering whether anyone knows where I can find a...

I have a meeting in Central Leeds at 1pm next Wednesday - can anyone suggest any reasonable workable alternatives to LBA - or any way to reduce the hassle & cost of using LBA to get to central Leeds?

Apart from the landing / handling fees - there...

Posted on behalf of John Cook:

We have applied for a certificate of established use for the Eastern Runway, which has been in use since the early 1980s.

However, because this is a legal matter and not a planning issue, we cannot present our...

Reading through NOTAM for flight today and found this:

EGBB

B)04/10/18 12:16 UTC C)PERM AGA (C3369/04)

E)AVGAS 100LL NOT AVBL

is this a new trend I wonder.

... I finally finished my tailwheel sign off today!

I started on a Chipmunk in late 2002, flew a bit more in the same chippie about a year later, then finished off in a few hours in a cub over the last few weeks. :roll:

I'm a very happy bunny...

NOT FOR OPERATIONAL USE

** NEW ** C3614/04 (AGA) Friday, 5 Nov 2004

Aircraft exceeding 2 metric tonnes subject to mandatory handling.

Operators are requested to contact in advance one of three

handling agents, contact numbers are as follows,...

I reckon I'm a pretty enthusiastic aviator. Not the most avid, I'm sure, but I'm up there somewhere. Every now and again, however, the value for money question comes to mind. My current style of flying is now very much in doubt. I'm sure I wont give...

What if, say, a 3 person group with a 152 merged with a 3 person group with a Bonanza?

Bimble and Zoom!

Anyone done it?

Im thinking of flying to France in the next week or two, but i am a low hour pilot and have never been anywhere out of the local area since gaining my PPL in may. Is this too adventerous? Can anybody give me any good advise on where to go?

Does anybody know what Samson are currently charging for a C172 at Newcastle. Im planning to go there tomorrow for a quick visit so will not be staying long, 1hr max. Have not been since my PPL XC qualifier and was about 20 quid then but I gather it...

We're pondering moving our aircraft to Cranfield and were what the residents' opinions of the place were. Any problems to be aware of? What's the out-of-hours access like? Is it easy to arrange for hangared aircraft to be dragged out of the hangar...

Without wishing to open up the great and recurring debate, I just wondered if anyone had ever followed up the line that the IMC rating cannot be used abroad unless permission has been sought from that countries authorities. Anyone ever tried or know...

AFE or Pooly's VFR guides?

I have an AFE for the current year, found that each time I phone for PPR ('cos it says PPR essential )) I didn't need to. The spammers I rent are fairly well equipped - they have working radios: at least ATC always say...

I'm just back for a few weeks of reality and what a sobering experience.

Now the clocks have gone back and the days are short the weather is also playing its tricks. I remember all the years of my aircraft sitting on the ground during the week...

Hi all. Have a quick question. Can people tell me how much they pay for their 172's per hour? At my club we have a Diesel engine fitted which means the aircraft costs about

In the latest Today's Pilot (if I post there it'll never get read!) there's a bit about the above. The pilot describes the interior and the entrance as being so small he has to take his parachute off, put it on the seat, climb in and put it back on....

I need to go to Stafford on Business on Thursday, the nearest field I can see is Tatenhill. I have just spoken to a couple of Taxi companies in Stafford and they have quoted me around

Hello

Is anybody able to fax or e-mail me ILS and NDB plates for Southend r/w 24 & 06 in the next 2 hours ? The ones on the AIS website (IMHO) are a bit cluttered and naff.

PM for contact details.

Many thanks.

Buzz

Does anyone know who to contact to get budgetary qoutes for a trans-atlantic charter?

The RAF have announced they are pulling out of Goose Bay next April and I was musing over setting up a charter for ex Goosites to revisit before it closed.

I...

Crossing the CT inbound not below 685ft QNH or importantly only 420ft above the ground (at the field elevation), as I pootle down the steep approach at 80kts, I note the instruction to proceed for 1min and 39 secs at a descent rate of 400ft per...

I sent you a PM several days ago and you haven't picked it up....have you seen that it's there???

I have been toying with idea of going with some friends to Eire for the New Year. Anybody got any recommendations for a specific destination with a decent hotel and restaurant?