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If anyone is contemplating a trip to Florida then it may be worth a look at my 'blog' for a weeks flying during March 2007.

It can be found here

It is mainly based on renting in the Orlando area and includes a look at an hour dual in one...

Having seen Rob L's fab report on the Taylorcrafts' Scottish excursion, he emailed me to ask how I had got on with a recovery of one of our customers' Barons that had diverted tech into Rome Ciampino last week.
It is not really a proper trip report...

I fear that I have opened Pandora's box. Most of my flying involves bimbling around on a nice day at 100kts, rarely travelling more than a few hundred miles from home. So last week's trip was a bit of a change - I was offered a lift from Chicago to...

There are those places you'd love to fly yourself, I've made a mental list, for me the the best was always going to be the Grand Canyon. The research I did initially suggested I'd have to go in the back of something at great expense. However a...

A 2-day trip to Aero 2010, flown IFR/airways

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A really enjoyable day yesterday flying from Woodvale to Rondaldsway and then onto Newtownards. The return trip back to Woodvale from Newtownards.

When I looked out of the window yesterday morning it was all looking a bit overcast but there wasn't...

Hi guys i am a new member on this forum and i hope you can help me out a little. i am an airline and airport management student doing my final year project and i need your help. I am doing my project on airline brand awareness and i need to know...

Notice the aircraft taxiing in the background too. It was in the touch and go pattern when I landed.

Started by dragging Sally kicking and screaming from her slumbers at 6:30 to deposit me at Dorking Deepdene railway station for 07:25 to Reading, en route to Chippenham to look at a ten year old BMW523.

Although the car looked good on paper (don't...

Hi, can't find a post re the above. Are any forumites flying in to the above event? Looks like strong support from owners.

Below is a list of aircraft taking part -:

'Spirit of Kent' Supermarine spitfire MK HF IXe TA805 G-PMNF
OFMC Supermarine...

Friday lunchtime, L'Urbe general aviation airport in Rome.

I-ENRJ, a very fit and young looking 32 year old C172N is prepared for the Easter weekend, destination Cannes. Tanks are topped up, lifejackets loaded, a couple of maps added and a pair of...

:D The plan was for me to fly a Cirrus SR-22 from Bournemouth to Cannes with a friend of the owner's to familiarise him with IFR flight in the aircraft, as he was new to type, and then catch a commercial flight back to the UK from Nice. My friend...

Thought I'd share a few snaps taken during an hour building flight prior to my Skills test (still got 12 hours to make up before I can do it!)...apologies for some of the over-exposed pics...couldn't turn the flash off!

Plan was to make it last...

Bit of a delay posting this one in full, but here goes anyway as there were a few nice photos from the day that have surfaced since.

“Duxford Bulldog and Pup Fly in - discounted landings and entrance to the museum” How could we refuse? :D...

The wife and I are currently planning a short trip to Alaska (8 days, Anchorage and Fairbanks, mostly). As it is a rough 6 hour drive between the two cities but only 220NM as the crow flies, a different means of transportation comes to mind:...

For those who previously asked for a summary to accompany the URL:

This article describes a very straightforward IFR (airways) trip from Shoreham (EGKA) in the UK to Paris / Pontoise (LFPT) in France, and back the same day.

This is one of the...

Hello,

I'm a french pilot who have just pass the FCL 1.028. So I want to cross the channel, and fly to Lydd for beginning, and later to Duxford or some other UK airfield.

I'm looking for web links for a good flight in UK !

Thank you very much for...

It was the sort of phone call you like to receive - "I'm off to Guernsey and Madrid for a couple of days and fancy using the TB. Are you up for it?". So - on a dull Tuesday morning Myself, Mark - one of the co-owners, and Mark (confusing I...

Here is a trip report about when we took the Antonov AN2 to hungary

HA-MKF returns from Hungary! The flight was scheduled to be leaving Popham on 23rd March 2008 to have its Certificate of Airworthiness renewed, but the weather was not kind so we...

This is a nice and short writeup on a "real IFR" flight

OK.. not some mountain flying, but climbing a personal mountain of my own dented confidence.

Deepest thanks due to QSD who restored my confidence in Looping manouvers this weekend, and during the process introduced the most fantastic and enjoyable...

Saturday had dawned a bit grim, but it looked like it could be flyable between the heavy showers forecast, so I arranged to meet up with Rob L on a trip out to Seething via Tibenham.

Above: Arriving at our strip I found that it was sheep grazing...

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I was bought a flight in a Tiger Moth by my parents for my 40th, which I did from Cambridge yesterday.
Having read and heard all the stories about how the Tiger Moth is to fly I was intrigued to sample one for myself.
During the briefing with the...

.... but it isn't to me!

I have been wanting to go flying in the snow for 2 years, but runway conditions (for a GA aircraft), instructor illness etc have all conspired to prevent me flying until it's all gone... :cry: .. But NOT today :D :D :D ....

Went on an organised trip to Libya last month and flew through the Sahara Desert. A few of the pictures are here:

Air to air shot taken by our "buddy"

And another

Oil exploration camp

Queueing for fuel

IL-76 graveyard at...

Well, it's been almost as much of a challenge getting all the photos and write up done as the trip itself. It's a bit of an epic, so pull up a comfy chair and a coffee before you work your way through. Best to use the full screen in Picasa and the...

While you guys were grounded due to weather I made a Sedona Arizona lunch run last weekend.

New video on an old page.

If your connection is slow you may want to go here and choose Real Video; . It's not as clear but it's 60% of the size....

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A bit late to post...some of you may have seen these from my Facebook already but thought I would share them on here. Fairoaks to Bembridge just before Christmas over the snow. Enjoy!

A cold early start at LTFC fairoaks.

Climbing out of...

We went skiing last week in Val Cenis, Haute Maurienne (Savoie), and decided to fly down to Lyon Bron (LFLY) and take advantage of the transfers to the resort from Lyon St Exupery (LFLL) by getting a taxi from LFLY to LFLL.

We flew down from Jersey...

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A few pictures from out trip. Cut down from a few thousand!

Late landing into Camarillo in the 172RG

"The Beast" at Oceano

Oceano

Biplane Rides!

Kern Valley

Kern Valley

70s interior. Very tasteful.

We could see the...

I hope this will be of interest to some on here.

Plastic, Bloomer, Chilli & Cappuccino

Damp, damp, damp. The usual weather conditions when Bloomer and I plan to go flying. So as the sun rose and I could actually see it, my heart lightened a...

Some microlight flying recently, also some from the hangars at Accra International.

and finally, not moved for 10 years apparently, engine now seized.

Just a quick trip report on a little visit to Thruxton, seeing as the weather has been so kack recently Incredibly I havent logged any time for over a month, although I have been flying with friends quite a bit to keep me sane :wink:

So – Todays...

Seeing as I've been flying here for just over a week or so, I thought I'd share some photos of the flying I'm doing :)

A typical day for me starts at either 05:20 or 10:20 depending if I'm on the morning or afternoon shift. We fly 4 sectors on a...

There's a Flying Adventure in this month's mag. Extra pictures here...

Ian

I am on a business trip to Orlando and decided to do my BFR whilst here.

Difficult to find somewhere where there was not a lot of Bull S*** involved. Anyway discovered Flightready Aviation at Orlando Executive.

They only have one C172, regular six...

Finally my job make sense. I spent three days in California at a Google summit and I found myself with a couple of days spare. Tomorrow I do all the touristy nonsense in San Fran city.....today I went flying ;-)

I flew with the West Valley Flying...

The day after I passed my IR dad had arranged to take us down to Megeve in the 'wagon...had a great flight down through France to Villefranche where we were met by Adrian who kindly put us up at his place...after cleaning out the aero club bar we...

We had been planning to fly my friend Ali's YAK18T over to Hungary this week for its annual. Some of you might remember our trip report about two years ago when together with the Maule we flew the YAK over to Lithuania for some fabric recovering and...

Just opened today right next to Corona's (KAJO) transit parking. I may skip dinner tonight.

Are you on the move again Skyhawk-N ?

Iceman 8)

Well, here goes with a new style of trip report, inspired by two previous reports. Firstly, the whole holiday in May just past was very much inspired by the photos shown on here about a year ago illustrating the low level route down the Hudson River...

Mrs Windjammer had a school reunion in Huddersfield on Saturday, so we decided to make a weekend of it as the wx was looking promising and I fell off the edge of the world once before onto the Northern map so I fancied giving it another go.

The...