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Hi all,

Last month I had the chance to go flying in the US for the first time, and I wrote a quick post about the process I had to go through to convert my EASA PPL to an FAA equivalent. Maybe it's of use to someone here!

There are a few...

#FLY2024 Challenge is over… let's start again! 8)

FLYER invites you to share in the new #FLY2025 Challenge - and you'll see that this year we've tweaked the elements. Some elements might be a bit more attainable than previous years, others might...

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We were bowled over by the response to last year's #FLY2023 Challenge and Russ Pinder is a worthy winner - a Bose A30 headset will be on its way to Russ very soon.

Did you see the FLYER Livestream with Russ? It's here:

The #FLY2024 Challenge has...

“After a solo flight away from base, it’s nice to meet up and have a chat over a cuppa.” ........at the land away airfield.

Following a request (thank you Waveflyer!) we will have, until further notice, a dedicated sticky post on the GA where...

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As requested, a stuck thread with a link to the "new" drawback form:

Hi

Does anyone know of airfields/strips that have camping facilities ?

Cheers

A while ago we decided that we would no longer delete entire accounts. There are a couple of reasons for this…

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We're always on the lookout for flying adventure features to inspire and entertain FLYER readers.

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Andrewsfield (EGSL) has PC access, it also has WiFi but I believe this is...

Welcome to the new Help and Advice forum. You'll probably spot that many of the posts were in Non-Aviation, and some may spot that the politically leaning threads are no more.

The Code of Conduct remains the same…

Be nice, considerate and...

There have been a few unacceptable posts of late. Please take a look at the Code of Conduct and post accordingly. Identifying individuals by anonymous is a BIG no no!

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For the benefit of those considering a PPL(A) and wanting to know time and cost, I’m sharing my experience based upon detailed records I kept. This is just my way through it, yours may differ, but I hope it gives you some insight and food for...

For a while I've been meaning to put together a little compilation of "stuff that helped" while I was learning to fly. I got around to it in the end (almost a year after getting the PPL...) and the result is now here(PDF) .

It's less a...

I thought it was worth providing a bit of background and a few pointers about the new website and the way we are now working, but first a very brief history as it adds useful context…

Until Covid came along we were happy producing 13 paper issues...

The Help and Advice forum has now existed with its current title for a little over six months. There is some fantastic help and advice given that really shows the collective knowledge of the forum and its members at its best. There do, however,...

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This sticky thread is here to point pilots towards a list of French customs airfields.

The list is here - designed to provide a good solid and reliable list.

You should use this list to help your initial planning, but then once you've decided...

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There have been a few posts recently that suggest the forum PM function is not as easy to find as it might be, so - courtesy of Europaul383 - here's how.
Just now I looked in vain for a tab that says 'Send PM'...
This might help for next time......

Submissions for FLYER 's 'That Worst Day' page have always come from FLYER readers, and we're on the lookout for more.

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I firmly believe that we are seeing the beginning of a new era in GA regulation - there's never been a better time to make logical, well constructed points, and to influence the future of GA regulation in the UK. I have spoken to the CAA and have...

Mum has discovered a Burma Star which she says belonged to Dad, and might have been awarded to his father, who served in the Navy. Problem is, Grandpapa died when Dad was very young, and Dad died a couple of years ago, so we don't know the history...

To the pilot flying a low pass over Mersea 2nd Feb I managed to capture a short video. Pm for a copy

A really nasty accident in S Korea.

Bird strikes also suggested as possible cause.

Rob P V2.0

YouTube's Mentour Pilot usually does informative videos on past aircraft accidents, but has today released a video on what he believes could be an accident yet to happen. He claims that procedures could be put in place to obviate the risk, and that...

This week, we’re setting out to answer the question on everyone’s lips: what exactly is going on at Old Sarum?

From bustling GA airfield to housing development planning applications, a parachute operation and most of GA not getting a look-in, the...

Has anyone else used this new feature in SD via a Bluetooth to RS232 device to control their Funke ATR833 (the oblong version) radio via the serial input line ?

I have just ordered the recommended Bluetooth interface and would be interested if...

Evening,

Quite some time ago I'm sure I saw a small article in the LAA mag (or it might have been Flyer) about a single aircraft hangar/cover that for all the world looked like a giant folding clamshell.

Did I dream this?? Googling throws up...

After 43 years I'm totally hacked off with Barclays and want to switch my current account.

First Direct seems to be on or near the top of all the reviews. Anyone have any first hand experience?

I just need a simple and reliable account that I can...

Arguably, I've only fairly recently regained my SEP class rating (airline pilot as a day job), but I'm looking how the revalidation will look like.

I exclusively fly a microlight now, based on my Part-FCL licence with a SEP rating, and as I've seen...

I need to get a new thingamajig. I know what I need to get, but I don't know what it's called.

I know what the things are called that fit together to make a thingamajig, but I can't for the life of me find them in the right configuration to do it....

Possibility of a large earthquake in the vicinity of Santorini.
Over 200 3 - 4 magnitude earthquakes have taken place near the island over the last 48 hours; siesmologists reckon it will be about 6 magnitude.

With ATC in contact with both the helicopter and the airliner in Class B controlled airspace, that collision should not have happened. A breakdown of many systems.

Iceman

Huh - maybe I did know this in the past, but forgot or didn’t have as much of the story. The bloke who founded the Oxford English Dictionary..what a bloke!

TBH, he sounds a bit like a certain gent around these parts… :wink:

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“By this time...

sweets came off ration.

The result of which was that my milk teeth and most of my adult set quietly rotted away..............

Mind you I've still got a gobfull of porcelain, mercury amalgam and gold..............all my own. :lol:

Hi anybody done a UK PPL to EASA Conversion post Brexit? Anywhere in Europe perhaps Spain? I'm just gauging what's involved in terms of training etc and testing is it simple as checkout or a full on or condensed PPL skills test?

Many thanks

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Is the aircraft in which you did your very first flight still flying ? This is me (sat on the grass) with Rapide G-AHAG in the summer of 1967 on a flight out of Lands End. I was just less than 3 years old. Mum and brother in picture. The aircraft is...

A seed was sown by a well-known student forumite (take a bow @t6harvard) that it might be nice to have a thread for relatively newly qualified students to share their first new flight experiences as inspiration for current students and ideas for...

Former Professor James Reason died 5 February aged 86.

By coincidence I mentioned his Swiss Cheese safety barrier model only a few days ago in the Washington thread.

But his successes go beyond that and his contribution to keeping us safe should...

I've just passed my LAPL ST so please be gentle! I learned in C152s so obviously no fuel stuff to worry about apart from filling in my flying club specific plog and having enough fuel for the legs, 45 mins contingency, taxi/takeoff/circuits/landings...

Well having scrapped our West Country escape, and looking at the forecast, I am guessing there will be lots of tele-watching in our house over the next two weeks.

Our preference is for serial scandi noir - there was a thread in which The Valhalla...

Just announced today; Peel are "holding a review" into closing Doncaster albeit after trousering stacks of public cash, building a business park, getting a road to the M18, etc.

In other words, it's toast, just like Sheffield before it....

Some council-owned airfields in Scotland are under threat - in particular Plockton and Broadford.

Who fancies becoming an "owner"?

Under the Community Empowerment Act 2015, community organisations have a right to ask to take over control...