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 information, social plans, considered...

I suppose there will be another couple of days hand-wringing about free access to deadly weapons in the USA. Ultimately the NRA will roll out some aged film star bearing his automatic rifle, someone else will quote the Bill of Rights and everyone...

Some time ago, I stated that in my opinion, the extra pollution in the atmosphere causing fogs was at least partly due to the newish 'fad' of wood burning stoves.
I see now (Sky News yesterday) that the mighty Khan has come to the same conclusion in...

Hi all,

I have a very sick kitty, and as much as I’d rather not post about it on here, I’m getting a bit desperate.

PM would be gratefully appreciated and PayPal or similar arranged.

I know folks will want to know, so he is 2 yr old, him and his...

I bet a Voyager would look great in the old RAF Transport Command, or even BOAC, colours.

BOAC would be my preference - a symbolic return to the 50s.

How about getting a Britannia, Comet or Beverley back in the air and allocating it to Boris? They...

I am about to visit a country not in Euroland, but where advice is that tipping in small Euro coins is expected. Checking our domestic foreign currency jars I find that we must have given most of our coins to visiting children about to travel (as...

We run a small "business" with perhaps 15-20 users of a DIY stabling venture, & 2-3 house tenants. All done through an unincorporated entity (but ultimately on behalf of a family Trust). We hold names, addresses, email addresses, phone...

So a guy is coming to view my microlight that I keep at home in a few days...price already agree.

Is cash the only safe way for him to take it away.

Interesting one in today's news, an air ambulance crew were told to move after landing at a building site in Leamington Spa on Sunday. Apparently a salesperson took exception to the unscheduled arrival and informed them that they were not to 'park'...

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...

I'm in the process of a house move and at the stage of looking at utility providers at the new address, currently with Plusnet for telecoms and been happy with price and service (none fibre) for 3-4 years now so decided to rattle their cage about...

It has come to that time for the old dears. We, my siblings & I, have them booked in next weekend.

Can the wise upon these boards suggest tax (or other financial) breaks that are available? Like carer's allowance, etc? Or point to advisers that...

Trying to get fundraising up to £1000 for Bowel Cancer Research. Just £65 to go if you could spare a fiver. Thanks in advance

I thought that last week's southerly breezes might have brought the first wave of these chaps but nothing so far here on the Herts/Cambs border. Anybody?

I believe that a number of forumites use DrayTek routers: if you do, you should be aware of a security vulnerability in the web interface, which is being actively exploited. Current advice from DrayTek is here:-

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I've got some money in an SIP and plan to semi retire next year. I need to make my money work better and have had some successes (Cineworld 45% up) and some failures (Dialight 56% down). I joined Stockopedia and followed their tip for Fulham Shore...

Last week I swallowed some plutonium.

It gave me atomic ache :oops:

Declassified from Secret in 1963 . Posted without further comment. :|

Section 11 - “General Interference with Organizations and Production”

(1) Insist on doing everything through “channels.” Never permit short-cuts to be taken in order to...

Can the medical profession really diagnose medical problems over the phone? I was always of the opinion that as well as listening to the patients description of their symptoms they made observations by examination. The reason I ask is that getting a...

Not sure if this caught many people's attention. I saw it last night (now available on iPlayer for 29 days):

It's about Gene Cernan, US Navy pilot, then Gemini 9A, Apollo 10 and Apollo 17.

Cracking documentary - no unnecessary presenter trying...

The new Pan Towers ticks all the boxes for Mrs Pan (gardens, view, gardens and did I mention the view?) and mostly me (for the kitchen) but sadly compromised in that I have no garage now. I do however have a large workshop /shed at the bottom of the...

Recently, Virgin in their wisdom decided my cable Router/Modem was old and they insisted on sending me a new one.

I didn't immediately notice as it took me a while to set it all up and get us all up and running as we used to be, prior to the new...

I stayed 1 night in a hotel last Friday. The charge was £149 + a refundable deposit of £50 against any others items used/consumed> There were none! Transaction was paid using a debit card.

On checking out I was asked to insert my card into a...

We're in the process of a radical and slightly complex house move; we're selling two to buy one (to bring mother in law under our roof - because of care needs) and whilst we're about we thought we'd move 250 miles from Stockport (where we've all...

Be careful out there!

My Utah friend Justin is good with drones; he's recently posted flying along the Salt Lake in Utah. I did this in my Taylorcraft, just 18 months ago or so (but perhaps not quite so low!)

Edit: Inverted:

Last week the glass fell out of our crappy old oven door. The kitchen could do with replacing so no point just replacing the cooker, let's have the new kitchen it's needed for years. We're thinking of moving house so need to go mad, just a cheapy...

As an engineer, I love this TED talk Why you should make useless things | Simone Giertz :

This a very sensitive subject, I make no apologies for raising this matter and I do not mean to cause upset to anyone and I trust it doesn't transgress any forum rules.

This week 'Coronation Street' will feature a storyline about male suicide, as...

Just in case you haven't come across it, may I direct your attention to another bit of Scandi-tele "Below The Surface" (Gidseltagningen)

It's an eight part Danish hostage drama, currently available in its entirety on BBC4 iPlayer.

It's...

I have recently been moved to a new Cabinet, and my speeds have improved dramatically. But they are still well short of even the "Impacted / Low /B" speeds that BT think I should get.

Looking at the two screenshots below, does anyone know...

I've seen on a few outlets about the murder of an 18yr old by a young 20 something Ford Mustang driver in an apparent road rage type situation, Driver found guilty.

The reporting I've seen so far is utterly awful, I actually want to look up court...

Unless there are extenuating circumstances it seems to me that the pensioner was between a rock and a hard place. Is self defence no longer allowed?

…I thought there may be some interesting views on the topic from forumites?

How exactly do architects determine fees? I don't mean it being a percentage of build cost, I mean how do they determine the project design cost and relate it to a...

I had a Panasonic Lumix TZ80 which was a fab little camera. However, on Thursday I left it on the car roof and drove off forgetting it was there! Amazingly it stayed there for 4 miles before falling off and being squished by the car following....

Glad to hear the police are 'getting' some of these irresponsible cyclists. I'm always 'encountering' (can't really say 'seeing' them) on the roads after dark with no lights, often young kids whose parents should know better.

“It’s a golden labradoocockerhuahua and it cost £800”.

No, it’s not. It’s a mongrel and the rescue centres can’t give them away.

:roll:

This was going to be more of a lament than a request for advice, but there's one specific thing I'd like opinions on.

My beloved 27" iMac (not retina cos it's old (2012)) had died. (For the techies, the memory checks as does the disk, but the...

Article 17 of GDPR introduces the right to have your records erased / removed (the right to be forgotten.)

Last night I was looking at the website of an organisation where their membership pricing was (for simplicity) £50pa for the first year and...

This evening I have been visited by some really nice, fat bumble bees, feeding from some yellow plant or other I have in the garden. I put my camera lens right close to them for these pictures, yet they appeared unphased. Nature is a wonderful thing...

I'm thinking some of you on here probably have/have had the same issue.

I have a pile of wood, mix of chopped trees + untreated/unpainted shiplap siding + large branches that the missus is nagging me to get rid of.

Local Commune charge a silly...

Only today have I learned that for previous MOT tests I didn't actually need to have brake discs or pads fitted

And some new checks will be tested during the MOT including if tyres are obviously underinflated, if the brake fluid has been...

We really need our 36Volt electric golf buggy to shift one ton of fully fuelled Arrow on wet grass,
Yesterday a member had a problem with a loose battery terminal which caused arcing and virtually destroyed the lead negative terminal post of one of...

Just listening to the flat-earthers on Jeremy Vine:

There's a Flat Earth Convention going on at present...

Fascinating.

I'm not convinced :roll:

A few years ago I was driving to an MOT (car's MOT had lapsed when I was out of the country) and stupidly decided to drive the 50 miles to the family garage I bought it from rather than the garage 2 min round the corner from my house. Therefore I...

1374 of them, to be precise.

Quite hypnotic 8)

Yeah, as I've mentioned before I grew up in the 70s, where social gatherings were "bring yer own instrument", everyone "did their turn" - even for youngsters like me. 2 or 3 folks would take lead, and sing anything from...

I realise that this is politics, and hope that we can all play nice, as it's US rather than domestic.

This is a rather scary piece in the NYT yesterday from an ex head of the NSA & CIA.

We in the intelligence world have dealt with obstinate...

This is a really insightful piece by barrister Matthew Scott on the terribly sad case of Alfie Evans who died from a degenerative brain condition at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool.

The family's anguish and grief seems to have been well and truly...

Delightful Onion tart and baked pot. with baked beans for supper .
We both noticed that the beans , seemed to have less beans and more sauce than in recent times .
Is it our old eyes , OAP brains ; or is filling the tin with sauce and not beans a...

I had been going to enter a team but my mate has got stage fright!

Anyway they are recruiting for the 4th series - if you e-mail contestants@presentable.co.uk you should get an application form.

If anyone is interested in putting a team in then I...