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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...

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...

The tagline for the Non-Aviation Forum says:
No religion, no politics and no axe grinding please.
We said a while ago that we would allow the "Neverendum" thread to act as a repository for discussion of Brexit so long as people were...

Reading about the rescue effort re the aircraft that came down I wonder should there be a limit? For info I checked the distance to Inverness and Fort William, 116 miles and 110 miles, respectively. Although not printed, there was an ambulance crew...

...particularly this one?

All over the news tonight.
I’ve clear criteria for clinical settings, based on length of consultation, space available, procedure required (checking BP, taking blood samples etc requires PPE.)

However, outside of work I’m not so sure. I don’t have...

Dear All

I have a domain with some emails attached to it.

There have always been some issues with emails from me in people's spam filters but that was apart from being a minor pain never something to consider moving providers for.

Of recently...

A little advice that some clearly need more than others....... :roll:

My mother's iMac is very slow, but within Activity Monitor nothing shouts as a rogue app. What else would be causing it? Her internet speeds are generally "fine" (15-20 down?), so that ought not to be the cause. Maybe it is a lack of RAM?...

Does anyone have any idea of what is or not likely to be covered with travel insurance, particulary bank provided?

I have a Travel Pack with Barclays which I believed is all we need as a family i.e. no need to double up with one from my wife's...

Hi all,

Any landlords able to help with some advice?

I will be moving out of my house for two years and renting elsewhere - and I would like to rent out my house in order to help cover our costs until we return.

I have never rented out any...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Since most of us are possibly in for an extended period of @home, what to do?

I already started a playlist on Spotify:
My Sharona (sing along to “my Corona”)
Peggy Lee - Fever
London’s Burning - the Clash
Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
I will survive -...

Okay, which one of you did this?

With all the 747s and 380s going to the graveyard, you could start a company out of this

If we don't use the Chinese firm's technology, what are the alternatives and are they any more trustworthy?

Just punting this to see if anyone is interested.

There has rarely been a better time to invest in equities, the market has collapsed and there are bargains to be had. Who was it said the wise investor buys when everyone is selling and sells when...

I have had a scansnap iX500 for many years now and a fine bit of kit it is too.

The latest update however has slowed the processing speed down considerably. Fujitsu have a YT video where you learn how to disable some functions which is supposed to...

Just seen this:

I suppose a sword is a good way to socially distance :shock:

KE

Insured with Saga - docs not to hand - c12 years NCD.

Just had my driver's door mirror swiped off whilst parked damaging not just glass and plastic, but the whole casting as well. 2006 Jaguar XJ powerfold. Not found a price yet, but perhaps £300...

Evening all

I'm going to be moving onto navigation soon in my PPL and I want to be prepared to save precious time at the school during the pre flight brief (and not look a complete Wally)

I wondered if you knew of any good resources or specific...

Does anyone know how many 'O' levels you need to become an "Intimacy Co-ordinator"?

The careers master at the Liverpool Bluecoat missed this one out of the options I was presented with.

Rob P

Charlie Daniels has died aged 83. Most well known for "The Devil went down to Georgia"

wBjPAqmnvGA

Reminds me of the recent discussion herein about the Cremation of Sam McGee ( Robert W Service )

I found it a couple of years ago growing in a gutter(and blocking said gutter) , so I removed it and put it in the damp hole where a branch had fallen off my poor dying apple tree.
It seems to like it there. I have no idea what it is. Any...

So I have a 4 year old boy and we're growing peas to teach him about plants and where food comes from (and to try to get him to eat the bloomin things!)

Last year our entire plants were decimated by slugs and snails, so this year we got wise and...

I'm after a new wristwatch. Number one criterion is it must be ACCURATE (I'm borderline OCD on that one) which effectively means it must sync to GPS or a national time source. But I don't want to have to charge it every night, which rules out Apple...

European hamster added to 'critically endangered' list - apparently we're not breeding enough...

The European Hamster (Cricetus cricetus), once abundant across Europe and Russia, has suffered severe populations declines across its entire range...

Can't find the original thread on this topic - maybe it was culled when the Non-Av forum got nuked? - but I have just received my first alert for assistance, and despite having @eltonioni's doubts whizzing through my mind I accepted it. I then get...

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,...

Does anyone have any experience with installing &/or living with an entire photowall / wall poster / wallpaper?

Thought that I might brighten up my office with something, but not sure if I would tire of the image, or spend years focussing in...

I need to do some flight fiddling and their website won't let me.

I've made some sandwiches and a flask of tea to sit down and listen to greensleeves all afternoon.

Peter :lol:

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...

Yes, despite its title it only lasts 45 minutes, but that's the least of its absurdities. It is a good source of innocent entertainment, largely due to many of the contributors being so far up their own bottoms/front-bottoms. (A recent neologism of...

The 17:54 Shipping Forecast is back on. I'm not sure if it is a repeat, though. :wink:

Bill H

In keeping with the thread title of 'help and advice,' I would like to advise members that a memorial flypast of a Hurricane and Spitfire will take place over Ditchling (Sussex) as part of Dame Vera Lynn's funeral service on Friday of this week....

As the de Havilland design team allegedly used to name their designs after whatever pub they were drinking in at the time, this is off to a good start. Clearly, it's a Defender rip-off, which nobody but the lawyers are denying.

What does anybody...

2 threads I have contributed to over the last 2 day since have vanished . Apart from me, what, or who, is the common denominator?

Example 1: showed interest in a property last week. Five further phone calls to chase a viewing. We had taken the effort to drive there to make sure we were happy with the area and the exterior. Further phone calls yesterday trying again to get an...

Can anyone point me at a resource - online or paper-ware - that would help me identify crops growing in the fields, at their various stages? I walk through them on my daily exercise and I'd love to know a bit more about what I'm seeing. Google has...

Very green ;)

One D. Trump has just tweeted:

I am uncertain he has got this quite correct.

Rob P

I am, of course, quoting the reality TV 'star', not a political figure, though they do overlap at some points.

I am finding that I get more and more error messages when following a Youtube link.

An error occurred. Please try again later. (Playback ID: 9Dda9fZJWMVgYtos)
Learn More

The Learn More bit doesn't help, and my internet speeds are fine (28 down,...

As part of my clearing out some old stuff in my office I came across my old O Level question papers. Two grabbed my attention.

Geography Q2 - looks like I avoided the weather one - no wonder I struggled with Met during the PPL :D

Maths - some...

I thought I should try out this new forum to establish how useful it may be.

As declared above, I just need advice, specifically on where to start. In which order? I do not, I say again, I do NOT need any help in drinking them. :D :tongue:

Can anyone recommend some budget-ish 2 way radios suitable for general use for kids/adults around the farm?

We have some little Binatone things which are a bit dated and have patchy performance.

Looking for something with a bit more range 5km (?)...

An aviation related A Level Physics question; you have 40 minutes to answer. (Some data / constants had been given on the front of the paper).

I see renting an e-scooter is now legal.
Anyone here think they may use one.?
My thoughts are that cycling keeps you warm., but standing up at 15mph could be a bit chilling except in summer in the dry. And I bet they’ll all end up at the railway...

I was going to post this earlier this morning, but couldn't find Non-Aviation!

Anyway, 50 years ago today SS Great Britain returned from the Falklands to Bristol. My eldest sibling says I was there, but I don't recall (she does!)

I certainly...

I have an old Acer one notebook that has never been used. I want to use it as a simple email, web viewer and ethernet connection checker. But I face a Catch 22 situation that the browser on it is Internet Explorer 8 which doent work with modern web...

Does anyone know?

The RAF voyager that has recently been in the news that is getting a new paint job,

Is it the one that has been leased to a airline and is currently sprayed in thier colours? Or is is one that is currently sprayed in RAF colours?...

Any opinions? I suspect I will have to split my (classroom) 6 hour r/t course (includes a sample practice practical test demo) to go online v soon. In the real world i either do 1 x 6 hour in classroom or 2x 3 hour evening class, but suspect online...

We live slightly north of Cambridge and it’s a hive of industry here with arable crops.

Our favourite one on our walk is this one, which we’ve watched grow from tiny cress like seedlings.

However, we have no idea what it is going to become....