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...

I don't think this has been raised previously:
Evaluation of applicable rules for initial and recurrent pilot training, testing and checking

...the Agency is launching an evaluation on the impact of the rules, regulating the initial and...

From the other mag's website:
EASA rule would exclude hours flown in vintage aircraft & homebuilts

In a new and unexpected initiative the European Aviation Safety Agency has drafted a new rule that would mean flight time on Annex II aircraft...

Hi,

I've just bought a new aircraft (CTSW). I'm the 3rd owner.

I've been passed a Kannad XS4 PLB, the previous owner had zero knowledge of it so it's just been stored with the aircraft paperwork.

Does anyone know anything about them?

I assume...

May go flying on Monday for the first time in a couple of months. Need a destination suggestion.

Requirements:

Not in my logbook
Approx 1hr from White Waltham
Worth visiting - nice cafe or pub or reasonably interesting/pleasant
Minimum 500m...

Here's an example of 'might have been' that I really like. Winkle Brown would have been the test pilot if the project hadn't been cancelled.

Are we not discussing this, or have I missed the thread?

Great insight on the build up and engineering support, and I particularly found interesting the positioning clues they use to keep the formations in shape described in the second episode.

Can someone recommend anyone who can provide a written estimate for repairs to a wooden permit aircraft based at EGTB Booker?

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Enjoy.

Seeing as the thread on a SSDR Hurricane seems popular, anyone know what has happened to the Sprite Stinger SSDR last seen at the LAA Rally in 2016?

It seemed like a really interesting project but seems to have gone cold...

Heathrow Airport has launched its second consultation which is focused on “Airspace and Future Operations.” They are collecting feedback on their proposals until 4th March 2019.

The possible impacts are:

(1) curtailment or closure of White Waltham...

A friend has asked if I would be willing to offer my 'plane as a platform for filming a 360˚ immersive video experience as part of a STEM/careers/futures project that will be displayed in a dome at student experiences across the country later this...

Hi all,

Today's Week Ahead forecast video has just been updated.

You can watch it now at

Looks like there may be some weather windows in there for many of us!

If you are coming to Aviation Weather School (Part 1) this weekend, I hope you are...

Can anyone point me to the source for the Supplemental Inspection Documents for 100 series Cessna aircraft?

Specifically the 182P.

Electronic conspicuity using devices compatible with ADS-B technology is high on the list of objectives for the CAA’s General Aviation unit, according to an update of its GA Strategy from now until 2023.

However, the CAA stops short of making use...

I hope the injuries are not too bad, not life threatening according to the article.

This is my training airfield, so I'm curious of course which a/c is involved.

Sander

Hoping to visit on Tuesday if we can get permission. Has anyone landed there? All Pooleys says is it's military, some gliding, no defined runways as such, just a field, and contact Salisbury ops. Before I do, anyone know how big a field it is, any...

Just wondering...

If you depart a coastal airport and climb out over the sea on track to your destination (let's say for argument's sake one is departing Swansea for Newquay) then roughly speaking for typical light GA types how does your climb...

There's some nice flying shots and editing in this YouTube video. I also learned that Heli Hog Hunting is a thing in the US (I searched YouTube for that too, but can't say that I enjoyed the results).

Ian

You see nothing from CAA Skywise for days, then three come along all at once

"We have published CAP1754 – General Aviation Strategy 2018-23 on our website. The updated 5-year General Aviation strategy compliments and supports both government...

Unless I'm mistaken, a lot of the online questions banks and even the training materials for the CB IR (I am using CATS for example) now don't marry up with the new issue of the the Jeppessen charts provided in the student manual.

Is there any way...

Have to say these two ads caught my eye. Both have customer focussed content with forward leaning, hand on throat, engagement.
TIPSY NIPPER 1834 cc. V.W. ACRO INVERTED FUEL / OIL United Kingdom
T . 66 £ 12,000.00 / £ 11,500.00
ONLY SERIOUS...

Impressed with the 152 going in and out of cloud over waypoint ADRUG just now. I see he is now sitting around 4000’ close to Aylesbury right now and climbing.

Hope he is now in the clear and/or fully equipped for FIKI.

Brave person!

TIGHAR, said an English fisherman has provided the most solid lead in decades on where to find the wreckage of Miller's plane.

"In 1987 trawling in the English Channel, he pulled up an airplane wreck that he later realized looked like the kind...

Evening all,

Drawing a bit of a blank.. am looking for the list of equipment, either mandated or recommended for safety equipment that should be carried aboard aircraft. Need to understand what’s required in different categories etc. Have tried...

The number of adverts on the forum pages seems to have increased recently and personally now I find it seriously off putting! What do others think?
In the last couple of weeks a new load of adverts I see are now interspersed in each thread.
I know...

Stumbled across this, don't know if it's been posted before but I enjoyed it.

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I seem to remember seeing somewhere, maybe here, advice against using pressure washers for aeroplanes.

On the other hand there is stuff online about their use.

I would like to keep the underside of my plane a bit cleaner than I do, but the time...

To all you glider pilots out there. Can you describe glider circuits and the task of 'circuit planning', which seems often referred to in gliding, whereas in power flying I don't here this referenced so much, you work out the circuit details...

Daily mail reporting a mid air collision this afternoon involving two, as yet, unidentified aircraft: one rotary, one fixed wing

Got a weeks holiday booked in May and the thought has arisen to collect a properly foreign airport in my logbook.

Does anyone know if there is much GA activity out of LGKO?

Only thinking of an hour or so with an instructor so post BREXIT EASA...

One of the things I notice is absent from Forum Accident discussions is the human factor.

Mostly mechanical or navigational speculation.

Most light aircraft do not have facilities for a comfort break ,

I know from experience how judgement is...

Hi,

So I have passed my skills test and am now in that limbo where I am waiting a long time for my license to come back through from the CAA before I can fly.

Now guidance on the CAA website does say that you can fly Post PPL Skills test under...

Anyone been here recently?

Any reason not to use it as a refuel/sleep place?

The world gets more and more like a set of dystopian science fiction movies every day...

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Hi All, has anyone ever tried transporting a life raft and life jackets on board a commercial flight?

This relates to an incident on 9th June, 2018 at RAF Cosford. The bold is mine.

On 23 January 2019, Magistrates imposed a £1250 fine and ordered costs of £750 to be paid to the Civil Aviation Authority, following a guilty plea by a pilot to an...

I have been given a suitcase full of a friend's father's aeronautical charts, dating back to between 1940 - 1970. Most are of Southern Africa, but there are loads more covering pretty well everywhere between Cape Town and Singapore, including Nepal...

Hi everyone, I recall looking at a website which was written by a chap flying his Flight Design CTSW throughout France and had a very detailed description of literally hundreds of strips. Forgotten what it was called....any ideas!? Many thanks Rich

I have asked this question of the good folks at AOPA USA but I wondered if anyone here knew the rules around flying a G-registered aircraft (light piston twin) in the United States.

I'm aware that one needs a US visa to enter the country by private...

I may have missed it but do we all know about the proposed TDA between Huntingdon and Cambridge? In operation for the UK Pathfinder Project from 8/4 to 10/5. Basically it seems to be for testing UAVs at 0-500 feet on Notamed days. Apologies if this...

The Whitegate NDB (close to the Oulton Park VRP) is not shown on the current SkyDemon chart and seems to have disappeared from ENR4.1. However, Liverpool Approach gave us radar vectors to the ILS a few nights ago and issued the instruction...

Hope all are well.

There's been lots of gloomy news recently but it's not all bad. Lovely conditions today for a flight to Haverfordwest, always a great destination.

I follow Trent Palmer, he does some good videos and has some most excellent adventures.

Well - he is currently grounded because of an AD on his Rotax 915.

So.....

This vid is just an ejumacational one which I hope you enjoy.

Hi all. I’m trying to remember the name of a single engine piston type. I think it is/was French built. Tricycle retractable undercarriage and I seem to remember there was some weird connection between flap and gear. There used to be a group based...

Not sure if this has already been posted, but this is copied from Facebook.

REWARD! REWARD! REWARD!

Unfortunately last night Flying Club Westerwolde in the Netherlands had a visit from a bunch of brutal and ordinary thieves. They have broken into...

Seeing as we’re not allowed things beginning with the letter B, we’ll have to talk about Leeds/Bradford’s proposal to “.... increase the volume of existing Class D Controlled Airspace, using a combination of CTRs and CTAs, to ensure the continued...

So Medway council are now driving home the last nails in the coffin of Rochester Airport, by pressing forward their masterpan for part of the site as industry.

Despite government guidance to preserve and enhance airports as part of the UK transport...

With about 18 millibars 540 feet difference between 1013 and local QNH today my trip took me from North Kent to Turweston. On the return leg with 0013 set and monitoring Luton, I hear our callsign.

The returns at Luton were showing us at 2600 -...