This request has been prompted by the current court case regarding the Shoreham crash, but please consider it more generally.

We would be grateful if you do not start threads on court cases whilst they are still running.

The intention of this...

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 information, social plans, considered...

Was fifty years ago today...

There has been a lot of comment on this forum about the possible problems of low houred pilots offering shared flights to the general public as a result of a recent change to cost sharing rules!

Understandably, many say the PPL pilots offering...

Hello all,

I'm wondering if anyone could recommend an IMC rating instructor close to London familiar with Dynon/Avidyne kit? My aircraft has Skyview coupled to an IFD440 and I'm keen to do the training for the rating on that. Any pointer very...

There are very few fatal flying accidents in the UK. Those that occur rob families and friends of loved ones.
The safety culture is ingrained in every aviator from the word go and we all take it seriously. That is a given.
The number of people who...

Hello!

A windy weekend which looks like affecting flying I’m afraid. There will be some local flying to be found, but I think you will have to be lucky.

If you have not been to Weather School yet then you don’t know what you have missed! All of...

Here's a good one to kick off the week!

Not sure I recall it being consulted upon, but I'm reading some implications for small busy AGCS aerodromes seeking to establish an ATZ.

Also, still not clear about whether certain ATZs are there H24.

I see that FlyBe seems to have recognised the inevitable and put itself up for sale:

LINK HERE

It will be interesting to follow what happens. FlyBe is the latest incarnation in a long airline history and it would be a shame to see the old...

I'm pretty certain that many of you, like me, will have 'first soloed' in this glider courtesy of either the ATC or the CCF and the experience 'kick started' you to an aviation career either military or civil.
I also know it's anathema to most of...

For those of you who may recall this accident and the awful MoD stitch-up of the operating crew, they are now trying to dispose of some of the records from the original inquiry.

There is a petition running to get the government to reconsider.

...Bruce McCandless performed the first ever untethered EVA and we got this iconic image...

Well we all knew it would come eventually but here's the proposed FAA AD calling for spar checks on all Piper Singles.

Or

.. with proposal to build new Penzance helipad right alongside old one!

I took my first jaunt across the Channel on Friday and found 2 things that were slightly awkward to deal with that I'd like to understand how to make better for next time.

1. Opening a flight plan

I'm based at Sandown IOW, which is a very nice...

I was hoping to convert my LAPL to a PPL and gain an IMC this year but this is looking less likely. I have read that the CAA will only issue IMC ratings till Apr 19 but there is no info on what will be issued after this date. Will there be a...

How do you know they were 'actually cold all day'?

In the US they seem to build houses all around airfields as opposed to on them and nowhere else.

Guardian report

On Monday, they released an update of where magnetic north really was, nearly a year ahead of schedule.
Will the new/forthcoming charts reflect this?

It's ok for GPS users though :thumright:

Lots of aircraft diverting all over the place. I do wonder where this one is going and whether protestors really understand the risk of this type of disruption?

The biggest natural disaster of the twentieth century in the Netherlands is without a doubt the North Sea flood of 1953. It occurred on the night of Saturday, January 31 and the morning of Sunday, February 1. The floods struck the Netherlands the...

This is doing the rounds on the internets. Seems the pilot lost visual reference to his height.

It is a good demonstration of flying the aircraft all the way to the final point of the accident and not throwing the towel in at the first impact....

After a couple of months searching I have bought a 1982 C182R with PPonk 270hp engine upgrade. 3,400 hours on the airframe and 120 hours on the engine and prop! It has an STEC-30 2 axis autopilot, 430W, and JPI 730 with fuel flow.

Airframe upgrade...

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Courtesy of Google translate:
"At the border between Upper Austria and Salzburg, a small plane crashed into Lake Wolfgang at around 2 pm on Monday afternoon.
Specifically: between Strobl (Flachgau) and St. Wolfgang (Upper...

Everyone's favourite Airport MD seems to be moving on in late March.

No view on the new chap, but he can't be any worse from a GA perspective.

Apols if this has been posted before

In the first of this series, James May travels the globe in search of his ultimate flying machine. He begins by heading into the frozen wastes of Russia to pilot one of the best-kept secrets of the Cold War. He...

police to be given additional powers to land, seize and search drones government to work on expanded use of technology to detect and repel drones in sites like airports and prisons exclusion zone extended around airports where drones are banned from...

Hopefully this is the right place to post this.

Yesterday evening I had what I now think was an episode of Labyrinthitis - which, safe to say was not pleasant at all even when just at home.

For those that don’t know it’s a sudden onset of severe...

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know I have just published another of my quick Weather School Bites videos.

With a warm front approaching from the west today I thought I'd explain why warm fronts form. I know for some of you I'll be teaching granny...

LHS pilot under hood ?

Split from Alderney and L/D current threads.

I used to fly across the Channel and other open waters in SEP rental a/c. But once a bit older and involved in "Safety", I lost my appetite for such trips; the more so once an aircraft owner...

Back in the mists of time I got a separate FRTOL which has now expired. Do I need to renew it, given that my EASA Flight Crew License has a section on this (XII) which states that I have the competence to operate R/T equipment on board aircraft in...

Good news for those left in the lurch after the demise of PTT Aviation at Leeds.

I gather that Hields Aviation at Sherburn are to take over flight training at Leeds next month.

Don’t know whether they will be using their existing staff only but...

Reported by East Anglian Daily Times

Has anyone any comments on this nav/com I want something easy and simple to use. Clear with large numbers so I can see what I am doing and I just want to select a new frequency easily and flip flop over like my old King 170.

May I suggest that if over a large expanse of water instead of best glide it would be preferable to fly at slowest rate of descent, giving more time for May day calls and transponder identification.
Best glide speed is the slowest rate of descent.

This came up whilst I was browsing , and I thought it too good an idea not to share. :D

Does what it says on the tin, plus co-ordinates to plug in to SkyDemon or whatever you use.

Hi everyone,

Hope you had a great weekend.

It was great to see several of you at Aviation Weather School on Saturday. I'm so pleased you hold our Flyer forecast videos in such high esteem. With the extra knowledge you gained Saturday you can now...

The pilot of a Pa 28R was successfully prosecuted by the CAA on Friday 31 January for infringing the Queens Birthday Flypast on 9 June last year (2018).

The aircraft was visiting North Weald and requested airfield information for a local flight to...

If my understanding is correct, Avgas is not refined in the U.K.
This being the case, are we going to be faced with a shortaga?

Happy ending thankfully

went to the airfield today for a flight.

during run up checks, number 6 cylinder dropped off the EGT and engine running rough when right mag only tested.

during the last flight, EGT on number 6 was a little high too.

Im thinking either spark plug...

You couldn't make it up!

Now, I do realise this is somewhat tenuous but it might be useful to someone and so I make no apologies for the convoluted 'ifs'.

So, IF you have an MGL iEFIS (G3) and IF you don't follow the MGL Forum (and already know about this) and IF you don't...

I've been pondering whether to do the IR(R). The problem is that I fly a permit aircraft and like the affordability that comes with it, and I want to avoid the whole annual CofA spendorama, so permit IFR seems an attractive way forward for me.

I...

Happened to be idly looking at properties for sale with airstrips on t’interweb. I do have the joy of owning a strip but at 300 metres with slope and wires it’s devilishly exciting at times and I vicariously admire other private airfields . I have...

Francis Donaldson's article in this month's PFA Magazine (don't, I know) is welcome news.

However, I think the list could be better presented . I wasn't aware of any list previously so a small + sign would help identify new arrivals and maybe a -...

Unrelated to the "issue" in this thread but can somebody tell me where "New Topic" button is?

FAQs hasn't helped!

Maybe I'm thick?

..when you can have two :thumright: The XP-82 Twin Mustang Project flew their restored aircraft on Monday - although they hadn't quite intended to :o

On 31 December 2018, our XP-82 Twin Mustang flew for the first time since 14 December 1949....

Very sad news.

From about a minute and a half in. Lucky lucky man.