Midnight tomorrow. Then it's done. The CAA's consultation on making electronic conspicuity mandatory below FL100 closes on 22 September. Thirteen questions, twenty minutes, open to anyone. They've said they're particularly interested in older, lower value aircraft, and a fifth of a Read More 1 Comments
£26.60 to land at Duxford, and that includes two hours in the museum. Best value day out in UK general aviation, and I'll argue that with anyone. The new airfield review is up. Restricted joins, no overhead and no deadside, because Read More 5 Comments
A CAA safety webinar on engine malfunctions brough up some interestring points -do you trust fuel gauges, brief every takeoff properly, and take a hard look at the fields around your airfield every flight?. New Touch and Go Logbook piece, Read More 3 Likes
Duxford queue today: two Spitfires, a Harvard and a Tiger Moth. I'll take that hold any day of the week. Flew home to Elstree with Caz in the back, buzzed past Leavesden Studios (still hunting for my broomstick), then a straight Read More 5 Likes
Jack's doing his ATPLs. He's the oldest one on the course, older than some of his classmates' parents by his own admission. You'd think that's a disadvantage. It isn't. We talked about it mid-flight in KK, why the twenty year olds Read More 2 Likes
Twenty times more radiation at cruise than on my kitchen table. For a passenger that works out at about a tenth of a chest X-ray, and it is not worth a moment of your attention. For the crew flying it every Read More 1 Likes
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