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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 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,...

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...

I’m beginning to wonder if I’m falling behind with social media. I don’t use Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, or SnapChat.

I use Facebook (less and less) and apart from WhatsApp to communicate with, I simply use text and email, and browse...

Watched the start of the above series last night. Perhaps it doesn’t matter to the general public, but there were so many errors in what was supposed to be the innards of a Trident submarine that made it resemble a tardis.
It seems that it is crewed...

Not so much a thought experiment as a peek into the future.

Assuming that there's no useful vaccine, what's the exit strategy from this Covid mess for families, the economy, society, education, government... everything?

This is the third time now my energy supplier has gone to the wall and then some other company has taken over and put me on their expensive tariff - British gas this time.

I'm interested in recommendations for a low price Economy 7 tariff - have to...

I mentioned on another thread that a local beekeeper had put a hive in the paddock attached to pour garden.

Happy to say we are now eating the honey and it has grown to three hives!

I never thought I would be so fascinated with the little...

First pocket calculator

ZX81 and Spectrum

First pocket TV

First flat screen TV

New designs for electric wheelchair drives

SeaDoo

And many other things, some more or less successful. Really hard to understate this genius' impact upon modern...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

I'm sure this has cropped up before but a search for heating brought back far too many hits and the home automation thread long departed from the "101" of it's title :D

Looking for recommendations for smartening up the home heating...

For yonks my mailbox was hosted by 34sp.com, I believe a fair few of us went over there as one of the proprietors was a contributor.

For reasons I have now forgotten I thought I'd move that together with the hosting of a website to Wix, but never...

Post for a bit of fun.

I couldn’t help having a childish snigger when I saw the headlines about today’s Cabinet reshuffle.

Which got me thinking about all the appropriately/inappropriately etc named politicians or sportsmen or whatever

Truss - a...

A grey bunny. (Even if the photographer thinks it's a cat)

Surely no-one can be offended. :oops:

Just nosying around Suffolk on Google maps and I came across this:

I am assuming its muck /fertiliser spreading of some description but would like this confirmed or laughed at :D

Rob P

Reading about the newly announced AUKUS military arrangements, one of the key factors appears to be the decision by Australia to abandon its ageing fleet of diesel Collins Class subs and replace them with nuclear powered ones, aided by the US and...

It seems nobody has told Emma Raducanu that the Brit role is to be the plucky loser.

I am not a sports fan, I rarely watch sport on TV. But the final was riveting.

Go Girl!!

Rob P

Help
I am hoping some one on here can help , i was due to fly to SA at the beginning of sept , BA cancelled my flight and the rescheduled flight , and have rebooked me a flight on the 19th however as i cant take leave at this time i cant go , they...

The BMA have recently dropped their objection to assisted dying and established a neutral stance on the topic. This is a major change.

Every time this has been debated one of the strongest arguments of the naysayers has always been "Doctors...

I might be being completely stupid, but the card I use to pay for SkyDemon has expired and has now been relaced.

I cant seem to find out how to update my payment information anywhere. Any ideas?

Please Mods lock this to show the world we really couldn’t give a temporarily grounded phuck.

Starting a new thread as I (& others?) might have similar questions in future ..

Curtains

Does anyone have any experience with motorised curtains?

I'd like to automate three curtains in our Sitting Room; ours are fairly heavy & wide,...

TLDR: Be nice, play by the rules, and if you can't do that find somewhere else.

There are literally thousands of sites where you can go and discuss politics and pick fights all day long. There just isn't the bandwidth to deal with some of the...

I hate the chore of grating parmesan cheese. Any good electric ones on the market ?

I thought another stab at the forum crop growing thread might be of interest, so here goes.

Harvesting arable crops generally happens between mid July and the middle of September, but they all get planted at quite different times.

Winter planted...

Are we now in an era where it's more lucrative to drive an HGV than an Airbus?

(obviously neither as lucrative as driving a train)

edit: I did like the quote:
he said trying to get through to the DVLA is "like a puzzle"
something any...

One of the top five rockers ever?

Just watched some Feelgoods stuff on YouTube, and he really is something.

Are there five better?

Rob P

I know this is a UK based GA forum, but the events of 9/11 have impacts all aspects of aviation. So on the 20th anniversary I am in reflective mood.

I was working on an expat assignment at the time, I was working on the fuel system at Washington...

Last day today 12 Sep.
Superb scenery and great racing with lots of UK based riders including Mark Cavendish (OK I KNOW he's IOM); I reckon it was better than Tour d F as it was much shorter.

I have 2 debit cards and one credit card. I've tried to present these at ATMs but the slot won't let me push the cards in. I've observed others presenting their cards at the same ATM with no problem.
My cards all work in shops either with chip and...

Ok, I'm bored tonight, and I decided to properly try and work my way around the (not so new any more) new forum format, now the harvest is done, the weather has turned, and I am waiting for a Permit to Test on my newly restored toy.

I came across...

This is definitely not a political question, simply a question about the new rules that have been set in place regardless of whether or not we agree with them.

As much as I have searched I can't find the answer to this question, maybe the question...

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...

Rising 5 year old twin grandson in first week in Reception in 'big school' this week was being shown how rainbow colours appear when light passes through glass block..

The teacher asked him why he thought this was happening, (he's still only...

Until this week, I could select several photos in my library choose share via Whatsapp and they would duly transfer and go.

Now, any more than 1 photo - the app gives a shrug and doesn't do anything.

Done hard resets, cleared messages, done...

.. in nature; a somewhat aeronautical engineering story. Unfortunately, the beauty, form and function are also deadly:

Like many I’m following the Afghanistan evacuations. I notice that a British chap who runs/ran an animal charity has managed to get funding and clearance to evacuate about 200 rescue cats & dogs.

Anyone else find this absurd considering there...

I thought it may be of some value for students?

I also love the single man operation of the turntable. I'm easily amused. :D

So after a break of nearly a year I have found another Nissan leaf to soothe my needs to drive an EV.

But things have changed a bit on the charging front !

No longer does my Ecotricity electric highway card work in the machines at the motorway...

Try to discuss this monumental ( monument and mental) waste of money without getting donked!

Just curious...

Mine arrives on Monday!

Have just tried to access Nats website for some airfield and AIC stuff at

and none of my browsers (firefox, chrome, safari) will access it saying the site has 'HSTS' and there's nothing I can do about it.

This is admittedly an old bookmark and I...

Don't know if anyone has experienced them, but some 'SPAR' shops, alongside their coffee machines, do a snack called a 'Potato Dog'.
It's a frankfurter with mashed potato wrapped round it and apparently deep fried.
Delicious!

I have 3 nest boxes in my estate.
Only one rental this year ---a pair of great tits --successfully managed to raise 6 or so young.
My question is should I leave the boxes alone with the nests in or should I clean them out and pour boiling hot water...

Right, just to balance up the dog(s) thread , here's another for the household bosses!

First up, Pestle (and yes, I did have one called Mortar but she absconded!) - made it to 13

Next, Ace & Roar (ginger) - brothers who sadly passed within...

A major incident (for here anyway) - armed police, two ambulances and every Tom Dick, and Harry arrived. A £3000 drone which was invading someone’s privacy on a farm was blasted out of the air with a shotgun. Where the armed police came from, who...

Not sure if this is a GDPR thing or not, but who defines what is & what isn't "legitimate interest" WRT cookies? Seems very one sided to me, and open to abuse by the likes of FaceBook, V Putin and others ...

This lecture is ten years old but it's an interesting watch in light of current events.

TLDR:
1. have the right people in the right place at the right time.
2 get rid of them quickly if they aren't the right people and when situations change.
3....

Hi,

Can anyone definitively recall whether Barrow Walney Island was Walney Radio, Walney Information or even Walney Tower in 1986?

It might sound like an odd question but I flew there and I can't remember; too much water has flowed under the...