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...

Hello!

An unsettled, windy weekend although a few weather windows here and there.

If you have not been to Weather School yet you’ll have to book your place very soon. I have just announced a new Aviation Weather (Part 1) course date of Saturday...

'12.9 The amount of land available at Gamston Airport allows for the creation of a sustainable and standalone new settlement. It is currently a small scale, commercial enterprise which serves the needs of local businesses. Whilst development of the...

This must be a first?

I know there are some very knowledgable people on this forum.
With that in mind:

Number 1 son is asking about a tour of ww1 battlefields viewed from the air

Has anyone done it already and would care to share their advice?

Routings, got to sees,...

Some better news this morning

I've been looking for as long as I can remember for a leisure aircraft to operate out of my paddock which has 220m.

Does anyone have experience of the Eurofox and it's true capability? What's the shortest fields you've successfully tackled?

Hi.
I'm after chatting with people who fly from Hinton in the hedges for some info.
Pm me please.
Martin

On Monday I will go to my sister’s house.
I had planned this trip two years ago, and obtained an ASIC at great expense (~$700) which will expire next month.

Flying in Thailand has finished for me and for many others.
There’s a beautiful new Waco...

Sounds like a tragic end to a continental trip

I am currently flying for a European cargo operator and my schedule would allow me to instruct, especially during weekends. And I have always been keen on becoming also an instructor.
Before obtaining this job I was offered a sponsored FI position...

Interesting read, and even more interesting photographs...

Looks like the pilot handled the landing extremely well - but possibly wasn't equipped for the terrain he was flying over in terms of survival and "walking out" ? Ultimately...

Lifted from Twitter, the Bomber Command Memorial today. With family connections to Bomber Command in WW2, this makes me sad and disappointed...

.. two taken to hospital

Interesting appointment - looks like a high flying career civil servant, who is also a hobby pilot and aviation charity volunteer. Hopefully she'll prove a good choice, she certainly sounds like she could be.

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I've just scanned through the General Aviation Reports for Dec.2013 and find it rather concerning that, just in this one month, there were 17 recorded laser attacks on aircraft in the UK.

It would appear that no one was injured as a result of these...

Its impressive the number of rare aircraft this company are restoring down in New Zealand

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I've received some very helpful responses to my previous thread on the Eurofox - STOL debate. I have 220m in a paddock by my house and I am really keen to operate a sport aircraft from it.

I've flown and been sold on the Autogyro MT-03 Sport some...

I think most people are familiar with the three stalls in the PPL test:

(i) Clean stall and recover with power
(ii) Approach to stall descending turn with bank angle 20
approach configuration
(iii) Approach to stall in landing configuration...

Another oldie from Talking Pictures TV, Freeview 81, midnight. From IMDB:

"In Britain, at the dawn of jet-powered commercial aviation, an aircraft manufacturer tries to shift the blame from mechanical failure to pilot error when its newest jet...

I want to rent an aircraft pretty much anywhere worldwide (excluding europe) for a week in late March/early April for some interesting touring.

I have done Florida but not the Bahamas so that is of interest.

I am a PPL VFR only and have over...

Does anyone know of a friendly farm strip near Preston, Leicestershire? (Just south of Rutland Water.) I've found Rankborough Farm, north of Oakham. Anything nearer?

Nick

Hi All,

I apologise in advance as I can see similar questions have been asked before, however my conclusion is that there are conflicting answers including speaking to the CAA and BMAA...

ok here goes.

My situation.
EASA PPL (SEP) with Class 2...

I'm sure I am not the only one here to have done this, but I think it's worth giving it a bit of publicity for those who are not sure whether it's worth doing.

I arrived early in the morning expecting to be working in a freezing cold hangar with...

This morning whilst on the local LARS frequency - I overhead a very nervous sounding voice "Student G-XXXX, temporarily uncertain of position, request heading to YYYY"
I was slightly surprised that the military LARS controller simply...

Not a serious competition (there was only ever going to be one winner), but what about the next version of the software coupled with the next version of the hardware.... and the one after that?

“Ace Combat 7: Can it match flying in real-life?”...

According to a report in 'The Sun' (which of course I do not read) for 11 Jan, vandals somehow gained access to Dunsfold airfield, badly damaging both the VC10 and the B 747 by smashing windows and instruments, ripping out seats and pulling off...

Apologies if this is the wrong place, but I thought some might like to know.

ETA The title is misleading for reasons of brevity; both Mr & Mrs Barnett made significant contributions to the war effort & I'm pondering a better title.

Does anyone have one of these new (hence rare) devices?
Is the synthetic vision any good?
Does it require a European Vs a American terrain database for the synthetic vision to work?

There is a reasonable difference between the USA and UK price and...

There's a thing on twitter that essentially involves posting a good pic that has a wing in it on a Friday (I'm not sure whether it needs to have been taken on a Friday - I suspect not.)

Some have more opportunity for good pics than others, but even...

Nobody ever forgets it; not everybody has such a wonderful record of it. :D

Hello!

The weather is set to be turning colder through the weekend and next week. That means falling freezing levels and an increased risk of icing. It’s going to be rather misty and murky in many areas too.

It’s another Aviation Weather School...

Trailer released today. Quite a bit filmed at East Kirkby, I believe.

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IMDB entry

Facebook presence, with some behind the scenes items .

Although there is no further information as to how the bird appeared on the plane, it is thought by passengers that it entered the plane while it was landed ...

It must have taken a lot on brain power to work that out.

To be a rat or not to be a rat?

The Irish accident report was coincidental to a problem I have been dealing with for the past two years and I wrote about it on that thread.

It brings up the tricky business of how we should deal with known...

Another Magnificent Man in his Flying Machine tale - this time a gyro-copter :shock:

(It's raining and I'm bored :) )

The Light Aircraft Association starts 2019 with 7,725 active members; an increase from 7,638 in 2018 making the LAA the UK’s largest powered flying member organisation by a significant margin.

Meanwhile the number of aircraft operating on LAA...

Worth a read :shock:

This has been mentioned before
RAF Colerne is closing at the end of this year, the UAS have (sic) departed, and there are guys in the control tower who have very little to do, and they wish to stay current - to this end you are invited to fly-in,...

This guy goes through the costs of buying, owning and operating a Cessna 172 and it comes to $75 per hour all-in.

OK, it was 2016 and he is in the US. But $75? Really?

This I'd like to have seen

:shock:

Rob P

Question for anyone flying an SR22.
How do you use the fuel boost pump?

On the ground in most aeroplanes with low wings and two position fuel cocks I teach to swap tanks as part of the preflight actions.
Often start on one side then swap tanks for...

Has anybody got experience of hiring from Fife flying club?

I was considering hiring the next time i'm in scotland visiting my parents.

Thanks in advance.

There are a couple of publications on this website which look excellent: and I'm trying to get hold of a pre-pub. copy of the instructor briefs.

I've tried to make contact with the publisher (Alister?) but emails bounce, and there's no other clue...

Hya. Does anyone know of any aviation audiobooks, primarily based educationally and on flying theory, so particularly for students I guess. Also with regard to gliding, for those looking to get into the sport?

Following on from a discussion I had with a friend the other day...

Who can check out a new member to a group? On the assumption that the new member is suitably qualified with appropriate difference training etc, then is there any requirement for...

Well, do commercial airliners carry paper charts?

Very sad to see the demise of another rare aircraft.. was kept very quiet - for some reason the pilot was reluctant to report the accident.. was for sale (or just sold) by AT Aviation Dunkeswell..

Glad pilot was not injured..

Breaking news....

Just announced by the Dept for Transport:

Hi all,

I have unexpectedly had a place become available at Aviation Weather School (Part 1) to be held this Saturday 19th January 2019 from 10am to 4pm here in Wombourne, South Staffs.

This is your chance to extend your knowledge of how to...