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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...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

Have three free issues on us!

Got your PPL recently? Congratulations, we'd like to help you celebrate by sending you THREE free issues of Flyer* All you need to do is to send us a copy of your licence (photocopy, fax, scan etc.) and we'll do...

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...

I know i've read it here somewhere....but naturally now I can't find it.

After airlaw, what do people recommend as the next exam? I've heard both operational procedures or human factors.......but would be grateful for advice.

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...

The team at FLYER knows how extraordinary that solo feeling is, and we’d like to help you celebrate with a special FLYER memento. If you sends us a photo of you with your solo aircraft, along with the date that you soloed, you can receive an email...

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...

I've recently started flying lessons at Cambridge Aero Club, and since I've found these forums very helpful in figuring out where and how to start (e.g. MSGr's thread about costs), I thought I would say hi!

After having occasionally thought about...

Evening all,

Bit of an intro. I thought I'd done one already but seems like it was not posted or I didn't press the right button.

Was in the ATC as a yoof and did as much flying as I could. Uni, life, SWMBO, job etc. in the intervening years...

Hi! I've not been on here for quite a while, I'm just trying to get my head around navigation, my problem is: the POH for the Piper 28 Warrior, page 5.19, in the Performance charts, Maximum rate of climb, the example shows PA = 5000ft, OAT = 16*,...

Hi,

REALLY confused :(

Aiming to look at learning to fly in France this year (NPPL Microlight). I was on Citalopram for mild anxiety until Dec last year - now no meds and not seeing a doctor. I drive in the UK with a full license.

I've reached...

Hello everyone, i have my FRTOL exam soon.

I am confident with all of the RTs except for requesting from D&D/London Centre, a position fix or assistance if lost. I've looked through CAP413 and cant find any full example.

Can someone please...

Only now getting around to write this, but since a month ago or so I've finally taken the plunge on the way to a PPL. :-D

It's been about 15 years since the idea of learning to fly came into my head, for some reason always seemed out of my reach....

Hello!

I've always wanted to learn to fly and fortunately I am in a position now to make a start and plough through it at a decent rate.

Unfortunately, now that I'm set on and able to learn to fly, seems everything is against me!

I had a trial...

Hi All,

New member here and also a new PPL starter. Ive had two lessons so far and absolutely love every minute of it. Its been something i have wanted to do from even before i could drive, but money was the limiting factor. Hitting the big 40...

Hello,

I recently signed up for the Flyer Club membership and I've been refreshing the forum page for the last few days, eager to get online, say hello, and take advantage of the knowledge I can already see is in abundance on these forums.

I'm 40...

Long story short...

- I'm 33 years old.
-I sat my GCSE's around 2004/2005.

My grades:
Science (double award) - x2 C's
English Language - C
English Lit - E
Art - C
Music - C
Maths - F

When I was 20 I began studying law.
My results:

10 Level 3...

My last but most memorable lesson for a bit, whilst I jump through the hoops trying to get my medical sorted. My AME predicts using her experience my case will take approximately two months. As hugely frustrating as the time frame and uncertainty...

Sharing on here and reading the feedback has been quite cathartic, and some great ideas from others. If this is not of interest let me know please.

Weather calm, scattered cloud and some blue skies. Wind was low to start with but choppy and gusty...

I tried searching to see if this was covered, but I can't see that it is. Apologies if I've missed it.

I have a lot of free time between lessons which I plan to use to study and revise the theory side of things. I have a load of books on order and...

There are threads here for the LAPL/PPL course which I find rather interesting and enjoy following all of your progress, really does bring back fond memories from way back.

I have looked for threads on further training, but they seem to be a little...

Hello everyone,

I am originally an EASA CPL/IR holder currently converting to a UK part FCL. In the future i would need to revalidate the above ratings.

I did my MEP ratings on a T2006. Can anyone recommend a flight school in the UK that uses this...

Hi all, I attended day one of this today. With Simon Keeling @Weatherman - It was really good and well worth the money. :thumleft:

My initial thoughts were £279 seems a bit steep - and that the good stuff probably wasn't until day 2 (another £279),...

I just finished up my medical exam with an inconclusive result, because a medication I'm on needs to be double-checked by the CAA. Okay, more than fair of course.

But I was also told that said process is currently averaging around 2 months!...

Late notice, I'm afraid, but I'm at a loose end tomorrow (Sunday 17 April 2022) so would like to make the above offer.

It'ld be a bit of tailwheel experience in a 1940s two-seater based at Leicester EGBG. You can't log it (I'm not an Instructor)...

Just wanted to share. Any feedback welcome.

An interesting lesson today, flown in low wind conditions, blue sky, but thick haze layer going all the way up to 3000ft +, so no horizon.

Good points:-
+ I flew! I look forward to each lesson like a...

Hello everyone,

I am converting from an EASA part FCL to a UK CAA license. I am required to sit for the FRTOL examinations, the administrative part & paperwork has been more of a pain than the actual exams itself.

I am required to sit for the...

Hello all

I drove (and swam) over to the Isle of Wight yesterday to find out what a Fly-In is all about at Sandown Airport's Easter event. I got a whole lot out of the experience, including an unplanned trial flight in a Microlight with a company...

I'm about to start my NPPL training this week in a C42 after spending years dithering about I decided it's about time I got on with it :)

I've been digging around on forums and online for recommendations of ground school training materials and...

Hello all

I have my class 2 medical for PPL purposes booked for the end of the month (I have already gone through the process of signing on to the CAA portal and making the medical application). Assuming everything checks out during the exam,...

Hi all,

Student pilot here, several hours into training, so not quite brand new but not far off.

Had my medical back in October, and a change of medication was necessary for compliance, otherwise all other aspects were a pass. Following guidance...

Hi everyone!

I'd like to know if other students and the more experienced pilots here occasionally have brain / memory failure on certain procedural / memory items in the cuircuit and when en-route.

A couple of times I've made a 'final' call as...

I'm still shaking with the adrenaline as I type this....

Last week was my first take-off. Got a few touch and go's in this afternoon where I did the first take-off, then climb-outs, and whilst that first attempt was ropey, each one got better as I...

Hello all!

This forum was recommended to me quite a number of times.

I am currently exploring the prospect of a PPL course, and have already poured a huge number of hours in to trying to educate myself as best I can. I've visited a number of...

Good afternoon,
My first post on here and I'm looking for a bit of help if possible. I did a number of flying 'taster' lessons many years ago and have wanted to carry on with it ever since, I'm finally at a stage in life where I'm looking to start...

Big Question - still 50/50.

I have a new LAPL and Night Rating with enough hours to go for my PPL GFT anytime.

The sole purpose of the PPL would be to do the IR (R). This is becuase I want to be able to know how to fly in IMC. But...I don't...

Hello everyone!

I'm new here, currently 16, and I've loved aviation pretty much my whole life. I've recently decided its time to do something about it - due to the costs I haven't been flying much, apart from in flight simulators where I have more...

Just had to share! Was very excited!

I've been steadily working through the training exercises one weekend at a time. Weather has made things tricky and flying conditions have rarely been ideal (does this country have a horizon?). So flying...

Hi All,

sorry if this is a daft question & i've messed up a topic, but I'm doing some take off/landing distance prep and i've come across a scenario I haven't encountered before and not sure on the next steps - thought I'd ask here.

Using the...

Hi,

I’m brand new to the forum so apologies in advance if this post is in the wrong place!!

I’m looking to buy the AFE UK VFR Flight Guide 2022 from the AFE website, but just want to double check my home airfield is included - EGNH Blackpool?

I’m...

Here's a question. Slightly tongue in cheek, but based on a 'there I was...'

You are flying in an ill-equiped vintage aeroplane. You have almost no instruments and certainly no transponder. You do have a PAW Rosetta and some months ago you...

Please do not post current exam questions; it’s not very sporting and probably not viewed as a good thing by our CAA.

By all means discuss example questions, as this can be very useful.

Thanks. :thumleft:

I’m looking for a bit of clarification on how ‘accurate’ the FRTOL test is likely to be as I’m seeing a few differences between what I see/hear in practice vs CAP413.

For example, getting ready for departure/takeoff clearance. In practice, I’ve...

Hello all. As part of my college work, I have written five questions on the topic of supersonic travel and require a couple of people to answer it to help me gather information. If you are happy to help please reply so I can send it over. Many...

May I ask for advice please, on the suitability of this watch for Nav exercises? The bezel does move, either count up or count down.

Thank you

ATZs are a regular topic of conversation on the forum stirring much emotion.

On a present thread ( ) on the GA forum someone posted a link to a YT video where the pilot discusses infringing an ATZ.

I find it surprising this pilot was unaware he...

So........ you may have seen a post I made a few weeks about re: getting a medical as an above knee amputee.

I'm pleased to say that with good advice, thanks to this forum, being the wrong side of 50 made this more challenging than being an amputee...

Heads up, Students!

Some of us have already discovered the excellent online notes produced by the CAA of NZ.
Each PPL lesson is described in detail, inc the whiteboard briefing. Whoever wrote them deserves a medal, they are so clear and...

Every day is a school day - some more so than others - but we never stop learning.

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...

Hi everyone

I wanted to start a discussion around the proportion of student pilots who make it into a paid pilot role.

Flight training is very expensive. I have read stories of parents houses being remortgaged to pay for it! I personally have a...

Hi all!

I’m looking to start training for my PPL after a couple of years just thinking about it but have a few questions.

The plane: I thought I wanted to learn in a Cessna but I’m not sure why. I’m guessing there shouldn’t be any issues if I...