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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...

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 .

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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)

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...

Seems to have been today...

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...

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.

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...

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! :?

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...

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...

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.

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...

About 2.20 minutes in.

(ignore the last 15 seconds :D )

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...

I thinks this says "We've started".

An oversight has occurred with the Landing Fees tokens in the January issue of FLYER. The token for Blackpool is only valid is you purchase 50 litres or more of avgas during your visit. Our apologies for any confusion.

Having just read through some of Novembers AAIB reports (not usual for me but there were a couple I particualrly wanted sight of), I was amazed to read that in 2 fatal GA accidents, aircraft were significantly overweight.......180 & 140 Lbs....

OK, so here's a question. I should declare in advance that I now know the answer, having after the event had a telephone conversation with a very helpful guy at the relevant Ops. But I'd be interested to hear other people's interpretations of the...

Hi All,

I've been using skydemon on my tablet without much of an issue, however was looking to use the windows version for some of the planning. however everytime i try and "click" on anything on flight details or airfields it doesnt...

Gosh it felt good after 6 months - ish

No pictures but just good memories.

Hoping for many more this year.

Internal bliss restored :thumleft: :D

(thanks @carlmeek for keeping me on the straight and narrow :thumright:)

To gyrocopter/auto gyro - or not.

Got a colleague who does 3-axis ULM, delta, **** powered parachute thingy etc. He’s colour blind, so never thought of PPL.

I’m not in the situation to fly SEP much (in fact - at all); young kids, busy life etc....

Six things to do today (if you haven't done them already), in no particular order…

1. Enter the Pooley's competition to win either a Bose A20 headset with Bluetooth, a Garmin D2 Air watch or a £250 voucher to spend in the Pooley's Pilot Shop. Visit...

France moves to ban short haul internal flights

Can someone explain what the procedure is now for a GP to issue a LAPL medical? Is it necessary for the GP to log on to the new system to input directly, or do they complete a form and submit it to the CAA for them to input?

I have a driving...

I took my aircraft to its annual yesterday, and while planning, noted that Solent is still closed and class G quite a bit of the time...

EGHI CTA Activated

Until 10 Apr 2021; SFC-FL55

Solent CTA and Southampton CTR/ATZ operating hours are-...

I tried to connect my SkyEcho2 using Wifi and my ipad rejects the password I had set (and neither will it accept the factory password). No idea why, but I concluded I would need to do a hard reset because I cannot find any instructions about...

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.

Should I be worried about this?

From comments made by friends, for example, the Lightspeed Zulu has poor performance if the batteries run down. It seems to me something like the SEHT 40-80, which is a more conventional headset plus ANR, would...

Can anybody please point me to the source of definitive notification that from later this year ( ?June) the UK IR fraternity will no longer be permitted to carry out PBN LPV approaches.?

As much detail as possible would be appreciated: As I believe...

I must admit I am jealous

A slight oddity is that according to ADSB-Ex he's wearing a Brize squawk. Ignore - Norwich use the same sequence.

Rob P

It has been announced that HRH Prince Philip has died.

Many news sources but the wiki page isn’t behind a paywall.

Back to the old Rules for VFR in Class D

A return to as-you-were. Let's hope this marks the beginning of a sensible, proportionate and pragmatic approach to other things.

I'm looking for a bush flying training school in Iceland! I am struggling to find anywhere that advertises it, can anyone help with any recommendations?

Thanks!

Dicky :D

If anybody but me has this problem, the solution is

Press the Windows Key,

Settings,

Update & Security,

Click View Update History

Click Uninstall updates

Click Security Update for Windows (KB5000802)

Click Uninstall

Reboot the PC when...

A reliable source has told me that the strip will not be maintained this year by the farmer unless the pub is reopened. A great shame let’s hope someone sees the opportunity.A great favourite of mine!
Regards Fly safe .

After struggling to complete the Medical Application form for a Class 2 Medical (it rejected 4 attempts) I finally succeeded.

I then went to pay the £8.00 fee which I thought I accomplished successfully. The system issued me an automatic invoice...