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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...

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....

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...

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.

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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,...

In this edition of 'The Flying VLOG', I take my colleague & friend Stephanie for a local flight around the east of London.

The original plan was for an IFR flight to Shoreham, but a forecast of severe icing in cloud with a ceiling of 900ft and...

Looking for a family room for 4 (or 2 interconnecting rooms) in and around Abbeville for a night later in the year if anyone knows a gem?
Driving down the country after being through the Chunnel and need one night B&B either end of our holiday....

As I had a FLYER free landing fee voucher it seemed rude not to use it; its only a short flight from my base airfield at Full Sutton. I have never been to Beverley before, criminal really as it is just up the road.

I put a couple of videos together...

Here’s my first night flight in the DA40, and the first time at Stapleford so I flew with the examiner for his insightful knowledge for a safer approach.

Many dare to fly at night in a single engine airplane. But this is a fantastic addition to...

Continuing the January theme of currency, in the latest ‘The Flying VLOG’ we practice steep turns, PFLs, EFATOs and discuss the factors and scary thought of a real engine failure with the limited options.

I completely bin the first landing and make...

A month in the planning, a dream from many years ago back in my NPPL days was a trip to Jersey, Channel Islands.

I never quite got there and after almost 7 years flying, I made the trip; armed with an Instrument rating restricted, night rating and...

Has anyone else flown much this winter? This was my first flight of the season a few weeks back. The weather's been pretty bad. I've had zero luck with work getting in the way and the aircraft being booked.

2 rainy days at the end of the year and he's another writeup on a trip from 3 months ago:

Shoreham to Bolzano, Italy

Bolzano is a great airport for going skiing to the Dolomites.

This was a EuroGA fly-in to Astypalea LGPL in Greece. We do a few of these each year and this was a rare extra long one. Greece has become quite difficult and much more expensive following the Fraport (a German based airport operator) takeover of...

A year in the life of a Private Pilot, culminating in an epic 2,800 nautical mile journey all filmed on a unique but powerful GoPro. For those of you wanting a career as a pilot or you fancy flying a small airplane! This is what it's all about....

Hi Folks,

I am looking for some new places to fly to if folk wouldn't mind helping out. I found a topic several months ago were someone asked the same question, but I cannot find this topic anymore. I don't even remember which forum it was on...

A very happy new year to all Flyer Forum users. A short video to watch on a rainy day, when the weather says “No”!
Andy Torkington

By late September I was planning a trip to Jersey, CI. I hadn't done much in the way of Instrument flying since my Newquay trip and even then that was in moderation to what flying I could face all the way to Jersey using the IR(R).

I wanted to...

Hi
I want to visit Madrid next spring and land in cuatro vientos.Dis somebody that trip and do you have advises to give for the arroval and other general advises.
Last autumn I went to Valladolid,but no time enough to go to Madrid because we visited...

Hello everyone,

We are reaching the end of 2017 and here’s my best of this year, flying the Beechcraft 1900D, I hope that you’ll enjoy it !

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Hey Guys!

Here's a very very quick video of some of the best bits of what I got up to during the Autumn flying months. Lots of learning and lots of lessons learned.

On a very warm August Morning, we transit the world’s busiest single runway airport; London Gatwick. The final flight of Summer 2017.

After a quick take-off roll, we fly towards the far east of the London City zone for a shortcut towards Biggin...

Whilst on yet another of my flying trips around the US, we invited ourselves to the Sensenich wood propeller manufacturing facility in Plant City, Florida.

We were hosted by their President, Don Rowell, who not only collected us in person from...

The true aspect of flying in warm weather. Turbulence. This flight takes part across one of the hottest days of the summer, and it's a bumpy one. We even left our seats at one point, or two.

Two Procrastinators in a Plane

I finally got around to bringing my Dad flying this June. The irony that it has taken three months to write this post is not at all lost on me. After all, it was over 10 years since my Dad last saw me at the controls...

Hello,

I took on my longest solo navex over the last 5 days and am rather chuffed to now be a member of that exclusive club called the "Venice-Lido Airport members Club". :D

I won't bore you with a trip report but thought you may enjoy...

One airplane, one pilot, lots of planning, severe storm winds, fog and heavy rain, 3 lads and a Cornish Pasty. What a trip, and what a weekend. The idea to fly to Newquay came about late April, early May shortly after I completed the differences...

Dear all,

Report on a trip to Cannes in July this year:

Regards,

Alan

This is my first real trip report and I know it's basic and trivial in comparison to more seasoned pilots who have been to far, far more adventurous places - I know I'm not doing anything new here. Anyway, I thought I would share this here, thinking...

Two weeks ago we did a trip to see the JAM. I'd thoroughly recommend it to any aviation enthusiast. It's not on the same scale as say Duxford, but the quality of the exhibits is very good. Lots on the development of the jet engine and the early jet...

Since the last attempts to get permission to fly in to Svalbard were declined by the Govenor, I have noticed that a new one has taken over the office - (Kjerstin Askholt is the new Governor of Svalbard. She came into office on October 1 2015.)

I...

This August, I took my unmodified Piper Lance, N101DW back to its country of origin from its base in Cambridge.

The route was Cambridge - Wick - Reykjavik - Narsarsuaq - Goose Bay - Sept Iles - Bangor - Worcester Mass.

The Lance carries 94...

Well, where do I start on this one?

First off, I'm still 'half pregnant'. One of the forms I had submitted to the CAA was wrong and, after a fortnight they told me. That's now been corrected, and I hope that they will not tell me something else is...

After 3 years of trying to line up my Dad's week-long stay in the Scillies in October with the weather and aircraft I finally made it there on Thursday afternoon, following the cold front southwards.

FIrst stop was a fuel and toasty stop at Lands...

Hi all!

I've not been flying as much as I'd like recently, only really getting up once every five weeks or so. This manifested itself as serious rust when I flew a couple of weekends back... It wasn't a flight I was happy with; my iPad not...

Some 15 years ago, I had my first ever trial lesson in a light aircraft from Andrewsfield, my local. I was too young to go solo at the time - or even reach the pedals - but I was hooked! Now, I've had my licence for 5 years and I finally decided to...

On Saturday 30 September, our club (based on an airfield with tarmac) took a few aircraft and did an informal landing competition: two regular landings and two power-off landings, one of which without flaps. One of our members produced this nice...

Three videos - Shoreham to Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik to Samos, and Samos to Astypalea.

All in the TB20, mostly IFR.

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...

A bunch of us from Leicester flew in four aircraft to Great Oakley today and took a pic-a-nic (Boo-Boo).

The most difficult thing was finding where to leave a landing fee, so we left some cash under the salt-pot on the kitchen table...I hope you...

At Portsmouth harbour UK. A favourite of mine; such a lot going on, but also busy and surrounded by allocated airspace. I was keen to see the new arrival HMS Queen Elizabeth currently being kitted out and set to work.
I, having spent some weeks...

Just back from a superb trip to the Czech republic and Poland, with 6 people in a C172 and an Arrow over 7 days (1960 nm).

The routing was:

Biggin
Kortrijk Wevelgem (EBKT), Belgium
Siegerland (EDGS), Germany
Letňany Praha (LKLT), Czech republic...

Familiar to many, we thought a cycle along the sea front and a dip in the sea at Brighton might pass the day well, landing at Art Deco Shoreham and cycling in. Stiff south east wind so phoned ahead to check I could use grass into wind (mono europa),...

Hi
Did somebody land there and visit toledo.I am looking for a way to go to Toledo.And do you have advises for the landing there.
Thanks

Flying's got to be the way to travel to Cornwall on a Bank Holiday weekend and over water surely.
For St Mary's Isle of Scilly the weather looked settled and cloud free for Sunday/Monday however St Mary's closed Sundays plus no fuel and Lands End...

After the Summer weather came to a classic British end, I decided to invite Sarah and her best friend Nelle; whom was on a study abroad programme in London to experience my love of flying. This is how the experience turned out for them!

Sharing some of my videos from RIAT 2017 (RAF Fairford) for jet lovers.

Major Dan "ROCK" Dickinson throttles up, hits afterburners, and propels the F-22 Raptor into a performance, high G, take off at RIAT 2017. Watch his stunning...