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We would all like to know about and join in celebrating noteworthy milestones along the path of your aviation career - whether that be private or commercial. This thread allows all those steps to be cast into internet eternity forever more.

Please...

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...

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...

So, finally it's time to do my LAPL as I turn 50 this year! But first, a quick rewind...

I was an Air Cadet at school and was lucky enough to get a number of Chipmunk flights and also a Glider Scholarship which I did aged 16 at RAF Kenley. Fast...

I don't know what took me so long to post... Anyway, I'm 46 which is pretty ancient, but have always loved aviation, being a general geek ( :twisted: technology leader, prog rock fan). I lived abroad for a while in Israel which as you can imagine is...

Hi all,

I've been interested in learning to fly for a long time but it's always seen to be a far off dream. Although recently all the peices having seemingly been coming together.

After starting a new job last year I finally found myself in a...

Please find below the provisional list for the Class of 2004.

There are some that I am not sure of the dates on so have just put the month. Others that I am unsure as to whether it was 2004 have been put in a list at the bottom. Please advise by...

Hi,

I'm interested in Flexwing training in the Sussex area. I live in mid-sussex ( Burgess Hill )

Looking on the BMAA website and the schools on there throws a bit of a blank for sussex. Closest is in kent about 1..5 hours away ( On a clear...

A bit off topic / and on topic at the same time…

I’ve managed to get back to flying lessons again, after 2 months of bad weather. I retained a lot of information from my first flight lesson and the second lesson last weekend was grand! Not too...

Hi Tom
Congratulations on passing that exam. Well done.
I think it's a poorly worded question. Maybe it's even been discussed on here before. My advice would be to forget about it and 'move on'. Start studying for the next one!

I thought I'd join in and add my own, rather lengthy, PPL journey. If you get bored easily, then skip to a more interesting post!

I wanted to write something to encourage others who may feel they have slightly higher hours, struggling with one area...

Hi all,

Thought i'd ask before purchasing direct from Pooley's - does anyone have any or all of the following they'd be willing to sell?

1) 1:500,000 Ruler
2) NPP010 or equivalent Protractor
3) CPM-1 Distance time Calculator
4) RNP-2

I'm a PPL...

Hi all

So my wife bought me a test flight recently which is now booked and I am hoping that if I enjoy the trial Inwill carry on to get my ppl. However I have a medical query that I have tried to find and answer too but am struggling. I have a...

Hi all,

With the broadest of brush strokes I just want to get the general perspective of what you would expect to pay for a simple journey. Yes, there are many variables, and caveats, and it will be tricky to offer any precision.

Let's go with a...

Good morning fellow and budding aviators,

I’ve been lurking in the background for some time, reading news and forum posts with interest. Soon I intend to write about my own PPL journey and offer some encouragement for learners with slightly...

I'm 34 living in the UK. I have been doing engineering for 12 years I have an MEng. I am bored I want a real challenge. I have been fascinated by flying for years. Always wanted to do it but I was too comfortable. For reference I am on a 9-5pm very...

I’ve found myself getting quite angry at the weather (in the U.K.) wondering why we’ve basically had the same (unreliable) weather that doesn’t seem to have changed all week.
I’ve told myself, surely it can’t just be gusty EVERY day? Surely the...

Graduating from my newbie thread, i'll plot my journey here to aid the perspective of others considering doing the same. With that in mind, today I have my 'first' PPL lesson!

I'm learning with Shoreham Aviation however i'm lucky that there are...

As per the title, I'm needing to do my SSEA conversion and would like that conversion to be on a tailwheel, to enable differences to be signed off at the same time. I am restoring a Taylor Mono which I expect to be flyable in the next couple of...

Saturday 13th July, Flyer's own event, Concorde Suite, VC Manchester airport.

I'll be there with 3 colleagues representing the British Women Pilots' Association. All students are welcome to visit our stand for a chat :D

Our reps on the day are...

Last year for my 50th I was given a voucher for an extended flying lesson. The nearest participating airfield is Shoreham, so I will be looking to book this up when the weather improves.

As I started looking into it, I became intrigued about the...

My first proper lesson . ...

Woke up to fog, rang aerodrome, they reported decent cloud base and some blue sky.

As I drove down the weather improved and we ended up with scattered above 3,000', blue skies, wind light, almost straight down the...

What happens in the scenario whereby the first exam taken expires before the remaining ones have been completed? Does the '18 month' window then count from the next valid exam and thus one can just re-sit the expired exam?
Thank you

This is probably a daft question given that I (think I) understand the maths, but I'm struggling to get my head around it in physical terms...

For example, a 20knt wind 45 degrees off from the runway heading in my mind should give a resultant 10knt...

Hi,

I'm learning to fly purely for fun. I've been fortunate to have a father who was a flight instructor and airline pilot, so I've had the opportunity to fly in many different aircraft over my lifetime, but now it is finally time for me to get my...

Is anyone able to clarify what is required in the test for an SE IR holder who has carried out the 5hr conversion to MEIR and is undertaking the skills test with a CAA examiner?

Will a full skills test take place, or just the asymmetrical sections...

Would anyone be able to share their experiences of training with Highland Aviation at Inverness Airport please? Interested in doing their Beach Landing or Mountain Flying short courses next time I'm up that way.

Hi all, can somebody explain this in a clearer way? Having a brain freeze :eye:

What am I missing?

When the pressure value in the Kollsman window is reduced, to me it says I am reducing the static pressure. If the static pressure is reduced the...

Hey! I thought I would reach out here.

I have thankfully come now to a position where disposable income is at the point I can pursue my PPL. I did a few trial flights a few years ago but due to COVID/Work Commitments, this had to stop.

I have...

Evening all, I’m hoping that the combined knowledge of the forum can, once again, make up for the inability of the CAA to provide accessible information! Any help you can provide would be appreciated.

I hope to get my IR(R) this year, and in...

Hi,

I’m a PPL(A) with just shy of 100 hours. Half of these were dual hours obtaining my PPL, the other half are solo PIC hours since my PPL was issued 16 months ago.

I’m sure I share frustrations with many of you that the weather has been...

Hi everyone,

I am planning to book my LAPL medical in the next few weeks and was wondering how different it is to the class 2 medical?

Is a spirometry (lung function test) required for the lapl or only the class 2?

Thanks in advance

Is there a catalogue/map of GA airfields or strips across the U.K.?

I see main airports and aerodromes on charts, but there’s loads of smaller strips that aren’t on there.

I found a few pages online, but they are littered with inactive / raf /...

:pale:

Hi all,

So apologies, so preparing for the EASA exams, there are few * terms * are not covered in any of the Ground School material, at least out of the four that I have. I need to ask them as I am taking the exams in English, in a region...

Starting NPPL training next month.

Ant tips or advice welcome.

When do you think I should sit start sitting the exams?

I have a full set of Pooleys books (I've skimmed over them for the past 2 years so have a bit of knowledge of some of the...

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Hi all,

As I understand (according to this video below): All propellers are constant speed. Did I get that right?

Does that mean that *all* of them have some sort of mechanism to govern the blade angle. Or do they just stay in one blade angle?...

I recently took my CAA CPL course and test and thought I would share feedback / thoughts to any other candidates about to go through the same process.

My course itself was a shortened (15 hr) version owing to my already having the required IF hours...

Does anyone have access to a database of PPL exam questions?

The CAAT is going with EASA and changing it’s PPL syllabus.
I have been asked to formulate a PPL groundschool pre-exam review for a flying club in Thailand.

I have been shown the AOPA...

I was issued my PPL and told that I did not need to worry about the FRTO licence as it wasn’t really a requirement to fly. From everything I have seen this is completely incorrect and you very much need the FRTOL to self hire etc.

I’m due to take...

I am sure there have already been many but here’s mine.
Passed my assessment of competence to be a multi engine instructor. These things get harder as life goes on and at almost 69 I sometimes think I must be mad!I remember in 2018 when I passed my...

A friend of mine, let's call him Doug, was learning to fly, did 30 odd hours at one club then took a break for a year after a house move and job change.
Ready to start again he turned up at a new club, explained the situation and booked a lesson....

I had a new experience yesterday during my solo circuits (lots of circuit traffic) which i'm still processing so I would appreciate some experienced perspectives.

The conditions were as follows:

* 5 aircraft in the circuit and 3 (of which i was...

Finally it is time for me starting the voyage of learning flying :-o
I hope this post can gather some International students who are learning or going to learn flying inside any part of the UK.

My very first question: Is a person who enrolled...

Been looking into getting my NPPL, I started my PPL about 14 years ago, but family and life got in the way.
I got diagnosed with ADHD 3 years ago and take medication, I don't need to take it every day.
Just reading the CAA guidance and it looks...

(Fair warning: This reads a little like I’m trying to write a “my first flying adventure” novel, but I wanted to capture as much of how the day felt as I did of the exercises we went through. If that’s not your thing, know that I had a good first...

I am starting university for a 3 year engineering degree in October next year. I enrolled onto the Bristol GS ATPL course last month.
Based on working 25 hours per week, I have a good amount of time to study. So I planned some realistic...

I've just read a summary of the following AAIB bulletin in an alternative (forgive me) publication but thought it was a tremendous reminder to student pilots (and obviosly everyone else) of how serious every single step and check is and how nothing...

Who said
‘The average pilot in a flying club cannot be expected to know all about compass deviation or magnetic variation, or how to work out a correct compass course by allowing for wind speed and direction’ ?
It was Frank Swoffer in “Learning to...