We're always on the lookout for flying adventure features to inspire and entertain FLYER readers.

So, if you're planning, or have taken a trip, whether big or small, that you think other pilots would like to read about in FLYER , then drop me a...

What about Hamburg for a 100 dollar hamburger location? We made our first trip of 2017 to Hamburg. The weather on Friday would be cold, but CAVOK. On Thursday night we drove to Paderborn, and we flew to Hamburg on Friday morning. The weather outlook...

Epic.

Just epic.

Just got back home from an excellent day out at Duxford.
Set off from Nottingham around 11am. Routed south of Langar, down to Desborough disused then over to Royston and join downwind for Runway 24 Duxford.

But who cares about...

So I've not posted a trip report in here before as I tend not to go anywhere too out of the ordinary normally, but a two week work trip to São Paulo had me investigating local flying opportunities.

A brief search on here and some googling found me...

Big thumbs up for Oaksey Park - went there for the first time the other day.

I was blessed with stunning weather which always helps but what a glorious place set in the estate grounds.

1000m+ grass r/w , very friendly and helpful indeed.

Nice pub...

A few weeks ago the wife and I were invited to a wedding up in Aberdeenshire near Fraserburgh. We live in east London. With my wife being 35 weeks pregnant, flying commercial was not going to be an option. We were not real keen on the 10-11 hour...

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As I'd not managed to get a grass landing done during my PPL training (!) I went out today with my instructor / examiner in my Archer shareoplane over from Nottingham to Fenland to do some circuits and touch and goes.

There was only one...

Had my first flight in a taildragger last Sunday when I flew in the number two seat of a Jodel D119 from Wickenby to Breighton for their fly-in. Chris let me taxi and take control in the air (no take off or landing for me lol) and we took the 30...

Am visiting Vacouver in summer 2017. Want to do a couple of seaplane flights (with an instructor - not bothered about getting a rating), maybe landing away at some 'local' lakes. Ideally in a DHC2 Beaver. Can anyone recommend clubs/flight schools to...

The typically poor flying weather characteristic of northern Europe requires flexibility from the recreational General Aviation pilot. The Dutch King's birthday on April 27 is an official holiday in the Netherlands, and this year it fell on a...

Every pilot has what I call “memory” flights; flights which were remarkable, special. Flights which, over a lifetime of aviating, plot the unique course of who we are as pilots. Often they are our firsts; first solo, first flights with family;...

It's not strictly a trip report - it started as a response to non-flyers asking me about ATC - but I wrote this blog post about the pleasures of flying outside of controlled airspace. I shared it on a Facebook group of mostly US pilots on Friday and...

Here is a little VFR flight, done around 5000ft, along the south coast

I did a trip last year where me and a friend rented a Cessna 172 and flew from Daytona Beach, FL to San Francisco, CA and back. I did a commentary on Facebook whilst on the trip and thought the Flyer forum may be a good place to give people an...

It has taken me 6 months to get around to writing this one up :)

A 3 day trip to Burgos, with some nice scenery.

Short trip to Goodwood in the haze, routing through Odiham talking to Farnborough. Love Goodwood, friendly, lots going on and interesting aircraft around. Cars belting round the track. Overhead join at 2000 to land on 10 grass. £15 landing fee in...

The first instalment of The Flying vlog - The ultimate view in 4k, takes us from Biggin Hill to Lydd in the Piper Warrior PA28-16, with high pressure making for some interesting visibility.

I post these now because you can learn a lot. A few...

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I visited Redhill for the first time yesterday, only my fifth new airfield visit since getting my PPL last year.

Runway 36 was in use so, arriving from the east, I had to report at South Godstone Railway Station and join right base. The...

Latest blog is about my last flight of 2016

A short flight from Leighton Buzzard to a great destination on the south coast, first visit though I have passed it many times. It looks like a big airfield but only operates a Lee on Solent Radio in the ATC. Landed from the sea. Had to taxi so far...

Leaving France in a 600kg GA plane, and 1200 feet cloud at Bournemouth, we were greeted with 600ft! Seeing no exit to the NW we called a weather emergency and landed at Bournemouth. We were guided to Brise aviation who informed us of a£27 charge!
On...

Taking advantage of the cavok conditions over North Wales last weekend I revisited Caernarfon from Sherburn .

My route dct from TNT has a "gotcha" where the base of class A airspace is only 3000ft south of Hawarden.

When I obtained ppr I...

My wife has just given me a rare weekend pass to go to the Le Man 24 hour race, to tick another much wanted item off my bucket list.

My thinking is to fly in Friday evening and leave Sunday evening. Does anyone have any recent experience of this...

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Yesterday I went for my first flight 'up north', and visited Leeds East airfield. Original plan was to go to Elvington, but when I contacted them for PPR I was told the runway's currently closed for maintenance :(

Anyway, with the next...

My trip to the Humber

Not the most exciting trip but a good way to kick the season off. Fish and chips on Cromer pier and a mosey along the seafront and the town.
Friendly welcome at the Northreps strip and not denied to a GA type. The 384m short dry grass runway was...

Yup, I'm pretty sure everyone's been to Sywell about a million times now ( ;) ) but after gaining my PPL in August and joining an Archer syndicate at Nottingham Tollerton in January today was to be my time to add Sywell to my logbook :)

All in all...

Hi. Has anyone been in to LIRQ/Florence of late? Thinking of heading there in June from Exeter. X

This was flown IFR in the Eurocontrol system. I edited it down to just show all the ATC calls so someone working towards the IR should find it useful.

Having a spare day in central Florida and wanting to do something different, you don't have to do a lot of searching until you find Jack Brown's Sea Plane Base . Based in Lake Jessie, next to Winter Haven and less than an hour from Orlando...

This lists 3 flights:

Shoreham-Brac (diverted to Split to to strong headwind) IFR
Split-Brac (short VFR flight)
Brac-Shoreham IFR

It is a short report because I put most of the pics into galleries, and there are 3 videos which show a lot more than...

I'm home again and flying the RV9A about since I returned and for another ten days.

Two pages on my website:

And

have images and a short description.
Tomorrow I should be going to Bangkok, and then Sunday I hope to go to the races at U Tapao.

I've updated my blog with a couple of new posts.

For anybody interested in aeros, I'm training myself up to compete in 2017 so there will be many more posts to follow!

Steerwithmyrear.com

(Cannot insert pic from a word document, but should be of rock pillars at the southern entrance to a valley at the edge of the Pyrenees, with some wisps of cloud through which I am descending)

Jane: Wouldn’t it be fun to fly between those rock...

Great flight in mid Wales, a scan of Ludlow castle, dropping in on Welsh pool, Shrewsbury and Church Stretton by the Long Mynd. Lovely low lying mist.
One of those nearly didn't start, nearly turned around, very glad I didn't days.

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I have actually managed to use some landing vouchers recently including Swansea.
Not that adventurous a trip but a lovely spot. I must go back with the push bike and cycle to Three Cliffs Bay in the summer. So close. Perfect weather the English...

Just a little one this time

There is a video at the end.

In October I had a spare day in Washington DC (well, to be precise, I was staying in Tyson, West of DC into Virginia). I thought it would be easy to find a place to go and commit some aviation in something interesting, but I initially struggled to...

Evening chaps,

How about a thread where pilots can share their experiences of their first solo/solo navigation flight? So to start, here is a rather long and drawn-out chronicle of my first solo navigation flight on the 14th of January 2007....

This is the last one for a while!

The camera iced up so it is quite short :)

I posted a report of our group flyaway to Norwich on my blog at complete with a couple of short vids and some photos

My first time Navigating in an international competition was this year's World Air Rally Championships at Santa Cruz in Portugal this September.

Thought we would share some of our on board footage from one of the Formula 1 Silver heats at the 2016 Reno Air Races in our new aircraft #3 "Chaos Theory". We took the lead from the start on this race so not much passing required and...

Shoreham to Split LDSP. IFR.

Split to Brac LDSB. A short VFR flight.

Eager readers may recall that in September 2015, I and two other Taylorcraft flyers took a trip to the Pacific North West and I left my Taylorcraft in Oregon for essential repairs. Also, just four months ago in May, I returned to Oregon to collect...

another brilliantly edited video by my mate Paul.

Hi Folks,

I've published a few blog posts here detailing some of the flights in the run up to (and including) my aeros rating test.

The copy is fairly short at the moment but I've uploaded the entire test video to YouTube for those that are...

Hello everyone,
10 years after my first flight on a Dr221, here's now a video of my first flight on a Beech 1900D as my first commercial pilot job !
I hope you'll enjoy it ! And be happy to read if you have any tips to improve my videos ! Thanks.