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Adam, I'll bet you a fiver I query the time on the forums.

Just back home after a few days mountain flying. If you're heading to the French Alps to ski next week, I'm afraid the news is dismal. It's the worst March snow I've seen for years. It was, however, good enough to land on most of the glaciers above...

Went to fly my PA28 today but had rough running (right) mag on power test.

I tried everything I knew to clear it - leaned the mixture to try to burn off any crud on the plugs etc. Didn't work.

Spoke to my engineer who'll look at it tomorrow....

Does anyone know of a product that can be used to reinforce grass, the sort of thing you can bury flush with the surface so the grass grows through it.

I've seen something at a previous Aerofair. Was it called Net Lock or summat?

A big thank you to Thruxton, G-BZNX developed a rough engine overhead so asked for a priority landing, which they gave me. They were calm and kept people from landing, it meant that I could concentrate on the landing. It looks now as if it were a...

Hi all

I've been lurking on these forums for a while, and waiting to get back into flying after a break of nearly a year. Today was that day. After 9 cancelled slots in the last month, the sun shone and I spent an enjoyable couple of hours doing...

I want to get hold of a bowser to keep Avgas in. There is no power at the site so it would have to include a manual transfer pump. Does anybody know at what storage amount the rules and regs start to operate, and where I can find those rules in an...

I don't have the full details , but before stories about this leak out incorrectly.

A Jodel departing Cardiff this afternoon off RWY 30 unfortunately ended up in the grass.

The one side of the undercarriage completely collapsed and part of the...

Just brushing up on my RT, when I cam across this apparent anomaly.

In chap 4 section 6.1.4 CAP413 says

All transmissions at unattended aerodromes shall be addressed to '(Aerodrome name) Traffic'. No reply to an unattended aerodrome report...

Bloody thing's gone again!

Bleedin, flamin, stuffin, candles last longer!

My landing lights cost rather more and last rather less.

Grrrrrrr :evil:

Anyone used their free landing voucher at Cardiff yet? Flew in Mon and again yesterday with different people. Not been in there before. The facilities southside are great, shame we didn't have a bit more time to indulge in something from the menu,...

We spend too much time on bad News so here's an uplifting Easter news item for you.

I see from today's paper that a very special flight took place at Duxford yesterday.

John Romain took a two-seat Spitfire V belonging to Karel Bos into the...

I've now dicharged fully and charged my unit 3 times but it's only showing 8:08 minutes when fully charged. Not the 11 hours often quoted.

Am I missing somthing?

What do you other 296 users achieve?

I'm just planning some local flights for hours building from North Weald. I did my PPL from Southend so have explored most of the area to the East already, So I'd like to explore to the west and also start going places - Elstree, white waltham etc....

2200 Ch.4 tonite

Plane crashed on take off this afternoon between 14.30 and 15:00 at Kemble

Caught fire on impact, believed fatal, don't know what type or how many souls on board.

condolences to those affected.

Eddie Heli

I'm off on holiday soon and have to take a course of Malarone antimalarial tablets. Before I call my AME, does anybody know whether they will prevent me from flying because the possible side effects (nausia etc) make me think I'll be staying on the...

Hi All.

I`m off to sunny(?) Spain next week and I thought it would be nice if I could hire a Piper Warrior from a local airfield .

This would be my first time flying abroad.

My questions are:

Will an airfield simply let me hire their...

At the risk of doing Simon's advertising for him, I decided to ask this openly as others may be interested.

Do you offer a 1-800-WXBRIEF type premium line service for pilots?

I see from your website that you do offer a Premium Line Service,...

I'm slightly confused by the customs form and I can't find the example from the last time I filled one out. Could someone point me towards an example for one departing to and returning from France on the same day?

Thanks

Rupert

We found the elusive circular rainbow today...

Had to run the 172 over to Liverpool from Barton to ferry one of our group so he could pick the Citabria up from its 50 hr check. As we set off from Barton, a large squall loomed in the west, but we...

Okay, I know, I know, a mix of topics in the same post. But really, it's all about getting links to past discussions, and I can't seem to find what I want using searches. So, here we go . . .

(i) Everyone made my day recently by convincing me...

I've just purchased one of these for work and wanted to use it for VFR flights (purely as a back up to my navigation skills I might add)

I understand it has built in bluetooth.

Can someone help me as to what else I need to be able to use this...

F152 For Sale

Seller claims the aircraft is on the UK register, won't tell anyone where ac is or the current reg, and suggests it can be reregistered using a reg once allocated to a PA28 :? :roll:

Can anyone identify the 'control tower' in...

Anyone know what happened to the group that used to run the IMC course out of hinton/turweston in the 90's, the advert used to say ring Sue. One of their aircraft was G-BORK, a pa-28?

Finally done it, perfect landings every time:

Take one low setting sun, mix with grass runway facing due West. Add a subtle blend of lightly scratched perspex and no sun visor. Ensure that eyes are watering and ASI is invisible. use the 'finger...

What did I tell you... I'm in Maidenhead and the Sun is shining.

This is flying weather, I told you I'd bring it!

I'll be at WW, Popham, and probably Goodwood (this weekend).

Anyone up for a beer or a flight can phone me at 07813 346076.

Pretty please.

LIZZie has now been in pieces on a hangar floor for a couple of weeks and it looks like being another week or two before Singh gathers her pieces back together in one piece.

I have an exeat Friday, Saturday and Monday. Johnny...

I know we dont like scare mongering, and we've heard it all before, but this seems to have a little more substance than other rumours I have heard as it comes directly from the Dft website.

It seems they are actively looking into ways to prevent...

I wonder from the current N reg discussion what is really sending people down this route. It seems that the DfT man thinks it is cheaper maintenance, but from the comments on the thread it may be more to do with the FAA IR.

It may help if we...

Can anyone help? Have seen some Peltors on Ebay which only have a single jackplug - presumably for the intercom. Want some for rear seat pax so they can hear what's going on. Obviously they won't be able to use the r/t to talk to the ground, but...

Planning is now in its advanced stages for the weekend - like 2Ds I may get to Boston; but Lincs rather than Mass :)

The purpose of the weekend is two-fold:

* A short UK break for me & SWMBO

* IMC practice

The original plan was:...

As previously explained, my C of A expires next month and I was going to use this opportunity to switch to the N reg. Some factors related to this decision are:

1) I have completed the FAA/IR syllabus, just needing to sit the written and complete...

Just had a cancellation from one half of an Extra300 Top Gun pair this Saturday 26th March. If any forumites are available and willing to rock up to Kemble at 10.30, we'll happily offer a discounted slot.

Format is safety brief, flying the Extra...

I was intending to do this on Friday, but it'll have to depend on the weather, as ever.

There are numerous airfields in southern Scotland but information on them is pretty hard to come by. I'd appreciate information if anyone's been to:...

Had an emergency landing at Newcastle Airport yesterday in G-MAVI (Robinson R22) after a tail rotor chip light came on while climbing away from the field... it's amazing how fast you can return to base with the wind firmly behind you!

My...

Took everyone’s advise and invested in Navbox Pro. Only just had a chance to load it and at first glance can’t see how you find a waypoint that is not on the database unless you know the exact lat/long position.

I was also disappointed that it...

...'cos I didn't, and my briefcase has just been stolen.

Here I am, out in the States, and some scrote has taken my briefcase from the trunk of the rental car whilst I was in a mall for under 30 minutes. :evil: :evil: :evil:

As well as the...

Hi, in the old days I used (and loved) my Psion LZ64 with Airnav flight planning software. I now use an HP iPAQ h5550 and wonder if anyone can recommend a good (not necessarily cheap) flight planning software product for this PDA?

If you have a log book entry showing that you flew to or from Felthorpe during the last ten years or so, this could be of great help to the airfield in its discussions with local planning officers. Similarly, RAF personnel, ATCOs and the like who...

Anyone had dealings with Traffords?

Premiums appear to be cheaper than others, any reason?

Any good/bad experiences anyone?

UV

On Saturday, I had two passengers so I did a weight & balance calculation. I have to admit I don't do one most iof the time as I calculated that with full or empty fuel, Mrs SM & I would not go anywhere near exceeding MAUW or go near the C...

Has anyone got a formula for calculating the elapsed time of a flight (in decimal preferably) from take off and landing times that can add the 10 minutes allowed for taxying?

My excel log book is fab apart from that.

I was interested in an earlier post that referred specifically to the consequences of a runway incursion in the US. I could not of course answer the question, so instead wrongly tried to broaden the subject to include the consequences of such...

Having just read a letter by a contributor to the latest Gasco Flight Safety Mag, in which the writer states with a certain amount of incredulity, that the average age of the UK's GA fleet is approachung 44 years. This prompted the question of 'how...

If the weather is good enough on Friday, I'm planning to do some circuits in a SEP. However, they're frowned upon at the field the aircraft is based at, and restricted to three at North Weald...

Does anyone know of a airfield with grass or tarmac...

Hello again,

It was a bit of a toss up today as to whether to issue this forecast a day early. However, many of you are already asking What will Easter be like? , so I took the decision to go ahead.

Bear in mind that confidence on this one...

You may be aware that the airlines are claiming that they are subsidising the regulation and oversight of GA and want charges to GA hiked and their own reduced.

AOPA are on the case, even though they have been excluded from the working party....

Does anyone know if they are still encouraging visits for training purposes? I am overflying tomorrow, and would be quite happy to do a touch and go to get the new airfield in the log book.

Does anyone know if 2D's has set off on his epic journey yet?

Normski