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Another of my home movies. This time, a flight earlier this week into Schiphol under IFR. All feedback appreciated!

Watch it here

Netherlands Trip September 2018

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Five and a half days. Five flights. Four new airfields. Six hours and forty-five minutes flight time.

In summary, this was an...

In case anyone is interested, I have been writing this up day by day. I thought I'd share it here with some photos.

First things first; there's a satellite tracker on the airplane that can be viewed at

My loose plan was to spend ~6 weeks total...

Made a video of the journey to/from the LAA Rally at Sywell this past weekend. Mixed up in-cockpit with more cinematic stuff, as that's the kind of thing I like to watch myself.

It is *far* from polished, I've spent a few nights on it and now have...

Am planning a trip next week to Denmark - probably Aarhus and Copenhagen Roskilde, and maybe some islands in between. Intending to stop at Texel on the way. Haven't been in this direction before so I would welcome any recommendations/advice on...

Three more trip reports for my non-aeronautical uncle about the return from Sweden:

Day One: ESVS Siljansnäs to EDHL Lübeck

Day Two: EDHL Lübeck to EBKT Kortrijk

Day Three: EBKT Kortrijk to EGPT Perth

I’m a convert now. Everybody always...

A blog I set up for family and friends, some of whom are not as aeronautically minded as you lot...

Hope you enjoy it!

So for want of cockpit audio, I ended up making a quick 3 minute music video of my trip to Blackbushe last week.

Now, this new video is a rather different beast, taking into account some of the feedback that you have been kind enough to provide on...

GoPro Video production number 2 . No cockpit audio on this one since it was largely designed to try out a new filter (for the prop and screens) and practise a rather more aggressive editing style.

Blackbushe were great as ever. Stand 1 for our...

I'm not entirely sure where the best place on the forum might be for Video Logs of flying activities.

As a GoPro Virgin, here is a link to my first effort - a flight under IFR from Cranfield to Le Touquet one overcast day earlier this month.

A friend was looking for a ‘little flying adventure’ and mentioned that he had never been to Copenhagen.

A few hours research later and a pleasant Sunday’s flying was in the plan. Baxterley (near Birmingham EGBB) to Texel EHTX for breakfast, then...

Its a simple trip, 1:45 from Dunstable and I've posted about it before but this time we explored the Middelburg town which was well worth it. Avoided French airspace and cut a line across the sea to Belgium and then along the coast at 5000ft. No...

I am back in Chiang Mai after practising my art in Canada.
I can’t fly here in Thailand any more.

England will be difficult for a while.

Because I applied for the night rating to be attached to my NPPL and EASA PPL I have to fill in another form,...

PPR'd 01227 860374. Landed Maypole 02 LH (grass 650m slightly uphill) approaching from the west being careful to not overfly the village as instructed. Blind calls on Safety Com 135.475. Parked in visitors row (3), booked in in the brown hut (£10...

I took a friend for a blast around the Cotswolds in the RV on Monday night.

The sky was literally empty and the air as smooth as glass.

Read here .

Phoned PPR for Cromer (North Reps).
1hr flight for us, landed on 22 (LH) (600 odd meters), radio was being manned remotely. £7 landing fee paid in the box (actually only had 6.70 in cash) and used the facilities.
We cycled 3.8 relatively flat miles...

Currently in Iqaluit Flying a new SR22T back to the UK.

Picked up the a/c and completed Cirrus conversion training in Knoxville Tennessee.
Flew to Nashville (& lost my treasured Swiss Army Knife to an overzealous security guard at the grand old...

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...

Part 1
UK to Spain

Trip to Spain
Plan was to fly from Holmbeck to Lee-on-Solent and fill up with fuel
Then across the channel to Caen, refuel and on to Perpignan
Stay the night there, fill up with fuel and on to Murcia San Xavier in Southern Spain...

Want to fly UK to Malta next year. Looking for advice/tips from anyone who has done this trip.
E.g. best way to route/airfields to stop at en-route etc. I plan to depart Uk from Dunkeswell.
Grateful for any info and contacts details for places...

Does anyone know whether the website is still active? I can't get access. It was excellent way of getting VFR information on German airfields without going to the expense of a Jeppesen subscription . If the is no more can anyone recommend an...

Worth a 25min walk from Mid Wales Welshpool.
Left out the gates; over roundabout; about half a mile then left up the hill SECOND right.
Very well kept gardens and the house to view.
Entry at Powis Castle 13.50 if you are not a National Trust member...

On the weekend of 19th and 20th May, Sherburn's intrepid pilot's made their way to the Orkneys. An Arrow, a DA40, a Warrior and a TwinComanche braved the Scottish FIR and routed via St Abb's Head and the Aberdeen overhead to Kirkwall. We followed a...

Hello.

Not a trip report but.......................

After having my Barra Beach trip thwarted yet again, this time due to an alternator failure, I took the opportunity to scratch another itch and did my first flight in a Gyro-Copter. Heck, this...

For no real reason, I had never taken some long-term friends flying before and the conversation turned to “Where can you fly to?” I last went to Bruges years ago and we settled on that as a destination.

After skirting Farnborough it was then...

trip didn't go exactly act as planned
ok going South
London Info was BUSY
couldn't get a word in edgeways until mid-channel!
arrived at Deauville
ask 4 fuel
non monsieur on n'as pas do fuel!
wtf
went 4 lunch
bak @ airport 3ish
still no fuel
wot we...

Planning a quick trip up to Copenhagen next week and spotted Angelhom Airport just across in Sweden that has both a Swedish Military Aviation museum - with a Draken Simulator - and is the base for Keonigsegg - the fastest production road cars.

My...

This would hopefully have been a fly-in report but the RV wasn't vintage enough to attend. :lol:

I've done a short write up of the Flywheel event on 23 June. What was most impressive was the Bicester Heritage facility - a great use of former RAF...

Hi all,

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...

Had a trip to make to Edinburgh, and having been there by road the week before I didn’t fancy driving up from Suffolk yet again. Forecast for Wednesday 28th suggested CAVOK there and back with early stratus
in Suffolk clearing by mid morning

I was...

Whilst at Friedrichshafen this year my son and myself took advantage of perfect weather conditions to fly around the central Swiss Alps. "Breathtaking" would be an understatement, I doubt we will ever beat that flight for scenic impact:...

I was in the US for work and wanted to do some flying whilst there, so I decided to go for the Bush Pilot course at Alaska Floats & Skis. I wanted to go to Alaska anyway, and decided on the bush course as for the ones that result in a rating it...

Fascinating stuff.

I was booked to speak at a conference for the Society of Flight Test Engineers which was being held in Delft at the end of May. This looked like an ideal trip to make use of the shareoplane so I booked it and set-about researching the...

The purpose of this trip was a weekend beach-break in order to gain some new found freedom, by flying abroad and most importantly enjoy some good food and drink. With the winter weather being just plain awful, the odds must be on for a warm start to...

Went up for a pleasant hour's jolly yesterday to/from Kemble with a fellow pilot. He was in the left seat and did most of the flying. We'd agreed before the flight however that I would be PIC.

Lovely sunny day, but a somewhat blustery and variable...

We decided we'd jump in the aeroplane at the weekend to escape the royal wedding.

The original plan had been to go to France (a bit of a tradition among the more republican elements of my family is to go abroad for any major royal family event) but...

Hey everyone,

I've got a little blog where I'm hoping to write more on the topic of flying over the coming months. I recently did a report of a fairly routine flight which I made earlier in the week, so thought I'd post a link here! I'm trying to...

This is a 26 min video condensed from a 2hr flight doen IFR in the Eurocontrol system, FL100. It shows the ATC interactions and may be of interest to people looking to do the IR sometime.

I would not normally write-up a short trip but this one was so excellent, I feel the need to share it.

We wanted to make an early start on Wednesday as the weather was forecast to deteriorate in the afternoon. We got into Turweston before 0800 but...

Flew my PA28-181 from Barbados to St Martin (the French side).

It is a little over 440 miles in a single leg.

The trip was to get the annual done - it is being done on St Barts but I do not have the endorsement to land there, so it was picked up...

Having flown a club aircraft since the start. A year ago I thought it was wise to enhance my flying skills and go for something more versatile and increase my skills, including the instrument rating restricted "IR(R)".

*From my first...

Other flying plans for the Easter weekend having fallen apart due to the forecast weather, I found myself at a loose end. Brendan of the Glenforsa Hotel had posted a webcam picture on Facebook asking what was missing from the scene - aircraft of...

This is a trip report on a flight down to Menorca, Spain

A very nice scenic location and it was a great fly-in. There are two possible runways - the big one at €200+ and another one which has no customs/immigration and "avgas for aeroclub...

After some technical issues with the engine start-up we fly a non-scheduled maintenance ferry flight to Bournemouth. Departing late afternoon on what is a rather windy day down to the south coast following Instrument flight rules.

Full approach...

After much planning on the previous venture and having failed to reach my destination due to snow showers, a quick re-plan and a fairly decent day of weather I took a friend flying to Shoreham to see what the fuss of a £35 landing fee was all about....

Another trip to the States beckons, this time planning to visit Utah and California and New Mexico. Mike and I are to depart from just outside Chicago and meet up with Jim and Mark near Kansas City before heading south-west.

Below: Planned route...

I promised my friend Dan that I would never put this on the internet...

He particularly enjoyed the stall turn.

:lol:

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I've recently moved home airfields and one of the changes are that every departing flight needs to have a flight plan issued, even if it's an hour down the coast or an overnight away. I have skydemon, but I've never used it for for the flight plans,...