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If you get 5 minutes of your valuable time, could you please take part in our new customer survey for Jersey ATC?

Thank you

Alan

PS It has only taken me 100 years to learn what a QR code is....

Link posted without further comment ;)

Does anyone have any experience of light aircraft hire / flights with an instructor in the Philippines - I am due to go there next year and can not seem to find much online about what if anything exists over there - I have a EASA PPL

The ideal...

Hi all,

The forecast video for the weekend and next week has just been updated and can be watched now at

Seems the weather is conspiring against my flying lessons ;) Hope you can get some flying in though!

Keep the sun shining!
Simon

Celebrating 100 years of ‘remain outside controlled airspace and standby’... 8)

A new independent review commissioned and funded by the Department for Transport, to assess the current level of risk to private pilots, their passengers and third parties has concluded that the current safety performance of recreational General...

The old Warden website has been updated, about time.
Another PPR phone number and much more airfield info. :D

Dan someone please tell me the current location of the original Santos Dumont Demoiselle, and that of Blériot's original cross-Channel machine?
I presume in Gay Paree, but exactly where?

Seeking views on flying in Iceland in the summer.

We've been regular visitors to Iceland, but other than commercial flights in/out, I've never flown around. I've no desire to fly myself to Iceland, but am considering whether to explore hiring a SEP...

After a protracted period with my aircraft being grounded on a respray, I got the following e-mail from Jeppesen customer services, enquiring as to why myself, like many others apparently, haven’t renewed my Jeppesen subscription (in my case, for...

Sorry, this may be inappropriate, and in case I apologise and the mod can delete.

Is there any Cessna Cardinal owner here I can get in touch with? If you reply or PM me I have an info to ask.

Thanks, S.

During the late sixties/very early seventies G-ADDI, DH84 Dragon, used to position daily to the beach at Southport from what we might easily term an early example of a farm-strip located at Criccieth. Each day Captain ‘Chris (female), something or...

Pickling up an airborne clearance in the UK always adds that little bit of workload, usually just when you don't need it. In the USA it's (unsurprisingly) easy, just call on the phone.

We're in Florida at the moment, so here's a quick video of how...

I thought I'd posted this before but it seems to have disappeared.
Air Cadet gliding will shortly resume at weekends from Kenley in addition to weekday operations by the civilian glding club so there will be an extra cable launch hazard over the...

Does anyone have a link to a source for downloading Cypriot approach charts? I have tried the Cyprus Department of Civil Aviation website but the registration for access to the AIP does not work (and neither does the login page).
Jeppesen, in their...

Film4, 1500

Massively adapted from his play Flare Path by Terence Rattigan (of RAF), it was one of the few to try to dramatise the interaction of newly arrived US airmen with RAF and local civilians, as well as telling personal stories of each....

With this sort of functionality surely people will realise the benefit of Electronic Conspicuity in the whole fleet?

Verbal Traffic Information has been introduced, so that all traffic of interest around you is communicated verbally.

Traffic that...

Just got back from the fabulous Le Bourget air museum, where amongst other things I came across a memorial for Test Pilots who died in the line of duty. Do we have one such in the UK?

Two planes lose wings after overnight attempted theft.
:evil:

Just seen this about systems thinking (in this case related to ATC) but it's interesting in itself.

There are a couple of Skybrary links at the end....

Systems Thinking for Safety: Ten Principles and Systems Thinking - Learning Cards - Moving...

I see there's a Cessna 162 for sale on AFORS (other sales sites are available). While i guess it would give the CAA an attack of the vapours to bring it in to the UK, what was it really like as a flying machine.? Tales of the extended trials period...

After 27/02/2020 are Farnborough likely to vector pesky GA transit aircraft overhead Oakhanger?
Would you accept such a routing?

I'm curious where you fine ladies and gents went on your first flight after passing your PPL? How far was it? How long after passing until that flight?

Would love to hear your stories!

When I got my driving licence, it took 6 months to finally get...

This young chap should go far and I wish him well in his future aviation career.

If only I'd stuck with the ATC and followed my then dream before I was lured away from it by girls and motorbikes (not strictly in that order).

Take those chocks away, Biggles – your noisy little plane’s a pain in the alpha, Romeo, sierra, echo

I know where he lives..... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Byron Davies' speech in the House of Lords during the 2nd Reading of Air Traffic Management and Unmanned Aircraft Bill.

From Hansard
4.31 pm
Lord Davies of Gower (Con)
My Lords, it is a real pleasure to speak at Second Reading and to follow my...

Of those who own and operate N-registered aircraft, who does your aircraft routine maintenance, annuals, 100 hour checks, etc., and do they have a resident IA to sign off the work ?

Iceman 8)

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) just released study for GAMA and AOPA underlines what we're talking about in another thread.

Just seen this about unveiling a model of a new flying wing

Looks amazing, and huge inside

KE

From here .... which comes from this ...

So what exactly is an approval?

I've often noted the pointlessness of 'MATZ penetration approved', and I've had 'Climb approved' from Farnborough after a transit.

Does an approval impose any obligations?...

The Wright brothers’ patents and their low importance for aviation

The Wright brothers were two American inventors who claimed they built and piloted powered heavier-than-air flying machines in 1903, 1904, 1905 and May 1908 and really flew planes...

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....

From next month Gloucestershire will require hi vis jackets, I hear. Add that to the, now, mandatory handling and the closure of the two smaller runways and we have to wonder if there is a future in GA for the airport.

I've been asked to take a family member flying who uses hearing aids in both ears. With the aids their hearing is fine, but I only have standard headphones - will these be suitable?

Anyone with any experience with this that could comment - I would...

... and if I don't, then presumably there are others that also don't know.....

Spurred on by the TMZ - is mode S required or not threads and wondering where the requirement for TMZs are specified has got me wondering......

Looking more generally...

Apologies if already posted, but I recently heard that Lindsay Brown died last week.

From the RFC Web site
It is with deep regret that we announce the sudden death of our CFI Lindsay Brown.

A much loved family member who will be sorely missed by...

The CAA has just sent an email reminding ATC that

From 26 March 2020 the requirements of SERA.5001 Table S5-1 and SERA.5005(a) will apply without variation and reference to ORS4 No 1312 is removed from the Manual of Air Traffic Services (MATS)...

I’m sure that this has come up before, but I can’t find a link.

At the moment I have 2 current logbooks, one for GA aircraft and a new one for Microlights. My question is should I combine the grand total hours in each logbook or should I keep the...

Dave is arguably this generation's tps' tp, as well as being a generally top chap.

I reckon these interviews are well worth your time.

I’m becoming affected by the number of people who can’t differentiate between the words “effect” and “affect.”

Hoping that somebody can point me to a link to the latest version of the 500ft rule.

The latest I have been able to find is ORS4 1174 which allows a difference to SERA's 500ft "bubble." However, this is dated 2016 and I'm not used to any...

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...

Hypothetically, if I were to visit the US and buy a secondhand transponder or radio (assume its a certified item) which has an FAA form 8130, what would it take to get it legally installed over here in a G reg?

Also, same question but what if it...

Details rather sketchy being reported on the BBC

A friend is planning a holiday in Nairobi in 2 weeks time and is asking if he can rent a plane & instructor / safety pilot. (He is a PPL).

I've searched the archive and got the recommendation to look at Kenya Shool of Flying at Nairobi Wilson...

I've just picked up on this, and I don't think it's been well publicised, so I thought I'd post here.

If you are a CRI, the revalidation requirements have been changed, and made more similar to FI requirements. In most ways, this has become more...

Reading through the Texel thread reminded me that when we flew Stockholm return via Ostende in 2018 air traffic asked if we were Mode S equipped. Only Mode C, so technically they shouldn't have given us clearance to transit their controlled...

Spurred on by the Farnborough dog's dinner that comes into force in a couple of weeks, I was wondering what the rules are for the creation of controlled airspace and whether the UK has a CAS policy?

Is it > x movements or > y passengers or is...