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

For the last two years we’ve been bringing you SkyDemon tips at the start of our Thursday evening Livestreams.

We’re now taking that one step further, and giving you the chance to ask any specific SkyDemon questions.

So if you want to know how...

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’ve just seen an e mail from Tim at SkyDemon stating that you will no longer be able to file GARs via Online GAR wef early April
The government s online service will be your only option

Looking at the notams it seems that Sywell is no longer licenced, and would seem to not have an ATZ.

Aerodrome Limited
Permanent; SFC+
AD not available for the use of aircraft requiring a licensed AD

EGBK ATZ Deactivated
Until 05 Jul 2024...

Hi,

I'm planning a VFR trip to Split in May in an Beech Bonanza (no oxygen) breaking the journey up into 3 legs to clear customs at the 1st stop and have a break at the 2nd (possibly overnight) and then on to Sinj (LDSS).

Having only been as far...

In recent months, on a variety of forums away from Flyer, but maybe including, there has been this misconception that Danger Areas, whether they be Permanent or Temporary are a 'brick wall in the sky', 'airspace closures' or whatever you wish to...

Hey all

A couple of quick questions - I'm looking at doing the IR(R) but I'm struggling to find the best prep material for the written test. I've been through the easyppl ground school course on it which was good but wondering if there's better out...

From UK Small Airfields Facebook page by Tony Bainbridge. Circulating for information.
Just a heads up to all Heli operators that thefts are on the increase. Our R44 was left out for a single night at Wellsbourne to allow and early start today and...

Some council-owned airfields in Scotland are under threat - in particular Plockton and Broadford.

Who fancies becoming an "owner"?

Under the Community Empowerment Act 2015, community organisations have a right to ask to take over control...

Does anybody have the inside track on when the cafe at Halfpenny Green is reopening? The website suggests ‘spring’ but doesn’t offer any more detail.

A further consultation is taking place regarding the proposed Restricted Airspace request for Drone testing.

I personally do not agree with their application because West Wales already has designated dedicated drone testing areas operating from...

LOWER: Surface, UPPER: 12,000 Feet AMSL 10NM RADIUS
FROM: 08 Apr 2024 07:00 GMT (08:00 BST) TO: 11 Apr 2024 19:00 GMT (20:00 BST)
SCHEDULE: 0700-1900

This seems a bit excessive, in terms of the 12 hours window and the 10nm radius.
Along with the...

The AAIB's 2023 Annual Safety Review generated some interesting (and worrying) takeaways .

Mark Greenfield pulled out six of the biggies for us…

- What can we do to reverse number 1 (hours decreasing)?
- Why is number 4 STILL the the...

I though this was rather well done

I only got 13/20 :(

We have reason to visit Prestwick Airport in early May (a visit to Prestwick ATC centre). I've only ever been in once before, a few years ago. Pooleys states:

Concessionary landing fee for private light aircraft only: Under 2 tonnes - Single...

Copied from Northern Aviators Facebook page about Highlands and Islands Airports 10 aerodromes.

HIAL have introduced a new charging structure effective Monday 1/4/24 ( and no it’s not an April fool)
All light aircraft will be charged a...

Had an uninvited fly by from an RV-7 this afternoon, 200ft above the chimney pots of our edge-of-town but most definitely built-up area.

I just don't get it, when you're so easily identified, visually, on radar, or on various apps (or maybe not as...

We're gradually uploading previous Lecomber columns from past issues, they're great content and brilliantly written, so well worth a read even if you caught them before, and a real treat if you are not familiar.

Today's upload is Lecomber's...

Time is ticking, and I keep promising myself a solo trip to Scotland for a week. I’ve decided that the only way to get the weather and my work/family commitments to be less of an issue is to have a pre-planned route in SkyDemon, ready to activate...

Hi everyone,

My name is Josh, a software developer and pilot who has held a private pilots licence for 7 years. Over time, I've encountered the challenges of managing bookings and schedules within aircraft groups, which has inspired me to create...

I see Vans has filed for chapter 11 protection.

We have developed an application for managing bookings, tech log and defects log for group ownership of aircraft:

Features include:
Unlimited Aircraft
Unlimited Members

for a small fee: £6 per month per group
It includes
Flight Log
Defect...

How to turn a Cessna 210 upside down in 3 bounces. Hope the guys are OK

...is the time required to shorten one's take off run. :shock: :shock: :lol:

If the mods think this should be tacked on to one of the other existing EC threads, please feel free to move it.

I have a query about the GPS altitude shown on my ipad (using Skydemon) using the Sky Echo 2as my location source.

Before I had my Sky...

This week we will be joined by Paul Kiddell, self-described “humble Eurostar pilot who enjoys going on flying adventures with wonderful flying mates” and author of many a 'Flying Adventure' article for us. He will mainly be chatting with us about...

Tim has been updating SkyDemon’s heat map facility and sent me the attached prototype. He is still developing it, but I thought you’d like to see it. Didn’t think I had visited Compton Abbas quite that much.

Was watching a few paragliders trying to soar from the mountains above Lenk and to my surprise one of them seemed to disappear into a cloud on top of a nearby peak.

Do paragliders fly in IMC? Is not a question that has occurred to me before.

For the purpose of absolute clarity the following post is hypothetical.

Tibenham is 'threatened' by a line of pylons and associated bits of wire that are proposed to be strung across the approach to 08.

I'd suggest this is a bigger concern to our...

I’ll just leave this here

Anyone spare a quid?

Last year @RobL kindly sent me Propellerhead.

It had been passed to him and he thought it would be a nice idea to pass it round, each recipient would write their username and date in the front and pass it forward again.

I read it, LOVED IT, and...

Oh Deary me; due to be booted out of hangars by council , over 20 large airframes (mostly ex Mike Collett collection IIRC?), supposedly only air museum in Cornwall, Dorset and Devon.

Petition here:

Bit falls off a Delta 757

Rob P V2.0

So sad.

Such a waste

Blackbushe is shut to fixed-wing aircraft for the period Monday 8th April to Friday 19th April due to the installation of new runway lighting. The Pathfinder café is still open during this period.

Iceman 8)

A plane passenger has told how his pilot made an "extraordinary" landing in a tiny Cessna aircraft at Edinburgh Airport during Storm Kathleen.

If that’s tiny, mine is miniscule :shock:

If you're on Face-thingy and are following Middlezoy Airfield, you might want to look at this link about their expansion plans.....

:wink: :wink: :wink: :wink:

Good afternoon all,
I am looking for some information on shipping an Aeronca Champ from the UK to the USA. I'm guessing the cheapest way to do this would be to remove the wings and load the plane into a shipping container and onto a slow boat to the...

Aero compact 2 person raft £1887 at Transair. Same one £1191 at Marine Chandlery.

4 person raft is £1012 at Seasafe, at Marine superstore they are doing the well-known Ocean Safety one for a mere £799 (too heavy though and I can see the included...

It should show even if you don't have facecloth installed.

Bet that got his attention :shock:

link below shows some thought provoking footage of Calidus and Cavalons driving around towns with what I presume is some sort cunning caravan mover type propulsion system fitted to the rear wheels. One wonders whether one just does this impromptuly...

Flew in to Leeds East yesterday and noticed they have an RNP Approach, Does anyone know how easy it is to get this approved and what it costs

After more than two decades of AME'ing I am hanging up my AME ticket, not entirely of my own free will, but a result of the changes in the regulatory world.

The CAA takes the view that they don't want to have overseas AMEs anymore and has not...

I'm a student pilot, and yesterday evening had my GoPro running in one of my club C152's. They all have a GoPro mount on the ceiling and it's great to review the footage and learn from it.

However I'd really like to be able to hear the audio...

The Apian proposals for large no go areas of Northumberland (comments close today 22/9) has highlighted the apparent lack of understanding from the industry about our type of flying.

With a bit of effort interogating the CAA ACP Portal I was...

On the Livestream this week, we will be chatting with Si Wilson, an ex-Royal Navy Lynx and Wildcat helicopter instructor who now instructs on the SuperLynx and Wildcat at Leonardo. He is also an LAA Coach and CRI with a passion for tailwheel flying,...

I've been filling these in for 20 years, but since January have had a continual problem with error code coming up on "amount of fuel loaded". I did contact Oil Reliefs at HMRC, but was told forms were not their remit. Yesterday I sent an...

Hi all

Does anyone know whether there is an equivalent of this document for the UK PPL Theoretical Exams:-

I have looked at the CAA published Learning Objectives for the PPL Exams but they don't go into the same level of detail as the EASA one...