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Transport without tears
There are many reasons why light aviation is good for the environment - and good for you!
Not least of these is the fact that you can beat the traffic jams. One positive statistic which we love is that light aviation, in a single year and as a whole, makes about the same amount of pollution as one day's three hours worth of rush hour traffic. This is getting better, too: new engines and better construction techniques are making fuel consumption ever more lean.
And what about airports? Well, by their very nature they have plenty of open space around them, and that can only be good for the local wildlife. Many of the UK's airfields only have grass runways and taxiways, and many others have programmes which positively encourage specific plants, insects or even birds and animals.
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| Red Bull carbon neutrality |
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Our news story about the Red Bull Air Race in London says that the event will be 'carbon neutral'. How, we wondered, were they going to achieve that?
The basis of the neutrality is carbon offsetting. The offsetting will be calculated by CarbonNeutral.com, a major player in the carbon offset market. They try to include all aspects of the operation into the mix, including the distance travelled by spectators, the electricity consumed, the setting up and everything else.
But, Red Bull tells us, the whole operation is geared towards keeping its carbon footprint as low as possible to start with. But before you ask, the aircraft themselves use 100LL.
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| Coming soon |
- The new engines making GA cleaner
- Airfields - a new use for farms
- The aircraft making the world happier
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Do you have any 'green' stories about light aviation?
Does your flying club have any 'green' credentials?
Do you know of any links we should have here?
Contact us by writing to martinlp@flyermag.co.uk, or use the form here
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| In the April 2007 issue of FLYER magazine, we had an article about green flying, and how to offset your carbon footprint. Here is the way in which you can do that: fill out the form below, we'll give you a link to the World Land Trust website, where you can make a donation specifically geared to your carbon flying output |
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