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

We were bowled over by the response to last year's #FLY2023 Challenge and Russ Pinder is a worthy winner - a Bose A30 headset will be on its way to Russ very soon.

Did you see the FLYER Livestream with Russ? It's here:

The #FLY2024 Challenge has...

“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...

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...

I went to Kemble today.
Was invited to join overhead (FISO), accepted that (08 RH circuit 2 in the pattern, 1 t&g)). Just before I entered the ATZ Someone else coming from the South PA 32 I think (Derp), announced joining, wanted right base.
It...

I don't know why the CAA is so hung up on how a registration looks on the side of an aircraft but here we go again

To ensure the safe operation of environments such as aerodromes and operating sites, aircraft
must be clearly and easily...

EES system of checks on non-EU visitors, including taking facial images and fingerprints, to start in three months’ time

Snaffled from the expats' magazine Connexion.

Probably no significance that it is the day before Armistice Day.

Rob P V2.0

I've recently noticed my tinnitus that came when I was bedding in some new cylinders a few years ago is still being excited by flying even with my Lightspeed Zulu 3's. Having a few weeks off, then flying intensively excited the problem. Thankfully...

Hello folks!

I am a low time PPL pilot and after a few years of club flying I decided maybe the time has come to buy my first airplane.
I have seen two options in the little two-seater category, here in Sweden where I live.

Jodel D112
Lycoming...

Please move or delete if in the wrong place.
We have an unexpected place for an FI rating at Blackbushe starting 4 November.
PM me or call the club for details.
We employ nearly all our Fi students so there will be work.

The Coroner held a pre-inquest hearing today and has set a date of September 2021.

The reason includes the fact that 150 people have applied to attend which is impossible at the present.

She will sit alone without a Jury.

Pop over to the Members' forum for the link to the next Skivestream!

Is this OK here? I detect a sensitivity around EC, but I thought this was a different take.

I was flying with a PAw (Pilotaware Rosetta), near Popham, north by 5-10 miles
I looked at the PAw and it said 'ATOM 5', 5 ground stations in range. There...

I have an EASA PPL, from 2012, obtained here in the UK, 2 months late to get a UK PPL I think
EASA PPLs continued(in the UK) until 2020??
Apparently I can't exercise my IR(r) / IMC in the UK without a UK PPL or a Class 2 medical rather than a PMD....

Hi, I am passionate about aviation and historic aircraft, and have wanted to work in aircraft restoration for as long as I can remember.
I was intending to enrol on a course to attain my B1.2 maintenance licence, but after speaking to the course...

This week we are welcoming Major George ‘Smokey’ Bacon MBE TD, former CEO of the British Air Display Association (BADA), to talk about the state of the UK air display industry!

George has had an action-packed career in an assortment of flying...

Seen on the remnants of the Key Forum and I thought worth sharing here:

Sarasota forecasting gusts of 110 knots with the eye going straight through Tampa. Not a lot of traffic flying in Florida (at the moment).

Iceman 8)

What is involved for a UK PPL to obtain an EU PPL?

Assume a UK PPL who spends quite a bit of time in different EU countries and wants to fly locally based aircraft whilst there.
(Asking on behalf of a friend)

I’m not sure if this is allowed, but I’m hoping I have enough good behaviour credits recently to keep this here for a while… :D

Some of you will know him, and many of you will have heard of him, but Matt Dearden (@IndoPilot here), has just...

It is with deep sadness that I have to report that John Pearson of this parish, took his final flight this afternoon.

John had survived cancer last year, but unfortunately first Covid, and then Covid plus pneumonia took advantage of his weakened...

Interesting developments at the GAAC. It's always had the ear of Government so hopefull fresh impetus will see better relations with the new lot.

And their paper

Hi everyone

New here, so please bear with me! Can anyone recommend an engineer or company to carry out a pre purchase inspection in the Glasgow/Edinburgh area? Not ACS as they are the current CAMO.
TIA

Alan

11 years ago today I bought my very own aeroplane.

Since then:

759:54 hours in the sky
942 flights
960 landings
22,347 liters of avgas (equivalent to a full tank of fuel for a Boeing 737)
142 kg of oil

Incalculable joy and happiness

Head to the Members' forum for the link to this week's Skivestream!

This time, not Rotax or avionics.

Rob P V2.0

Hi All,

I need to clear customs from the UK into the Netherlands. Has anyone had recent experience going to Lelystad?

Rotterdam is also a possibility. Any other suggestions?
I am going just East of Amsterdam.

Thanks
PA28

Now certified for Mooney

It looks like it is certified for C172 or C182, have anyone tried Dynon Autopilot?

I have flown aircraft with Dynon EFIS but none of them had Auto-Pilot...

With the recent 'reveal' of 890 N registered aircraft being 'resident' in the UK (see ramp check thread) this struck me as a relatively low number. I think I would have guestimated at twice that number as there seem to be a fair sprinkling of them...

With Sleap and Rochester having slashed 10 p / litre off AVGAS, are we seeing a general fuel price reduction ?

Sleap down to £1.79 / litre
Rochester down to £1.91 / litre

Iceman 8)

Looks like there might be light at the end of the tunnel.. Might even get the café open so it will be worth visiting again...

As I understand it so far, a gentleman named Martin, a fellow aviator, who used to own a Tiger Moth and now owns a pile of crumpled wreckage in a Poitiers scrapyard, is finally able to be discharged from hospital where he has been since July

A...

Delayed by eighty years or so.

BBC News - Hidden runway bomb explodes just after plane takes off - BBC News

Rob P V2.0

I've flown my instructor hour (first trip in a Tiger Moth, thank you for asking :D) and have my licences and logbook appropriately signed etc.

Apparently this time I have to now also submit the relevant information via the CAA Portal.

But how?...

I am wondering what other people's experiences of this are. For the first time in my flying experience an aircraft I own was ramp-checked a few weeks ago in the UK. Whilst I have no problem with the concept of compliance spot-checks, what I was very...

There was a brief discussion on the Skivestream on what the French would be for Skivestream so I thought I'd ask ChatGPT.

Glandostream and Flemmestream were offered. I'm not familiar with the words Glander or Flemme in French, but maybe someone...

This week we are looking forward to welcoming Mr Oshkosh himself, Jack Pelton - CEO of EAA - The Spirit of Aviation!
Jack has been Chairman of the Board since 2012 and CEO since 2015 (oh, and he was CEO of Cessna before that).
Tune in at 7.30pm on...

On the BBC, announced that Historic England have just published a set of archive photos from an aerial photographer taken late 20s, early 30s. Some quite fascinating stuff in here:

From Sky News…

‘Was looking at a Rotax 912S yesterday.
There’s a snag with the rear cylinder EGT...
Why would you fit an EGT gauge when you can do nothing about the mixture in flight?

Simplest way to see if there’s a real problem is to take a sparking plug out...

First 15 mins of this You Tube are rivetting :shock:

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Does anyone know if a class 2 on expiry, which then becomes a LAPL med for another year, would be valid with a US 61.75? I've looked at the FARs and it only states valid 'medical' is necessary. Which of course a LAPL medical is. Wondered if it...

Head to the Members' forum for the link to this week's Skivestream!

I've just received the very sad news that forumite terryws passed away this morning.

I'm sure some of you know Terry as the driving force behind Hinderclay Meadows as much as a forumite.

Those that met Terry will know what a lovely chap he was. A...

This month’s exclusive FLYER Club member webinar is with Andy Sinclair. Join us at 7pm on Tuesday 1 October, when Andy will be telling us all about the IR(R) – previously known as the IMC rating.

If you are not already a member, then just £5 a...

Well, it looks like we are saved as the hub is "live" since yesterday.
This will be a 24/7 support function to answer all carrier queries related to a passenger’s permission to travel to the UK; security related queries, or technical...

Just a heads up
IF you want to see potentially conflicting aircraft, you will need EC help to do it. It should detect ADSB, Mode S, FLARM. That's all the ones that reveal position. You can also get Mode C warnings, but their bearingless and only...

This excellent video has just been published by PPL/IR and is worth a watch if you're planning to operate this winter.

So right now I am working towards my LAPL. According to my FI I am 90% of the way there, just a few more solo landaways, practice QXC, the QXC itself and skills test to go (plus the remaining exams). Hopefully I’ll get it all done before Christmas,...