Is the UK heading for compulsory use of ADS-B electronic conspicuity by light aircraft? That’s the obvious conclusion from an announcement by the CAA that … Read more
News
First flight beckons as Elixir starts ground tests
French start-up Elixir Aircraft has run the engine and systems of its all-new two-seat aircraft for the first time (pictured above). The ground tests started … Read more
Return of the DeLorean… as a flying car
Having the name DeLorean can’t be easy, especially in the car industry. However, it hasn’t stopped Paul DeLorean, nephew of John, founder of the DeLorean … Read more
17-year-old wins Air BP PPL scholarship
A 17-year-old student from Hertfordshire, Robert Norris, has been awarded this year’s Air BP Sterling Pilot Scholarship, valued at £10,000, to train for a Private … Read more
8.33kHz radio payments begin
A total of 1,072 grants to pilots and aircraft owners to meet part of the cost of installing 8.33kHz radios aircraft is now being paid … Read more
Reviews
SEHT SH30-75 ANR headset£315
If there was a list of flight accessories that mark a pilot out as being even a little brand conscious, then headsets might be the … Read more
uAvionix SkyEcho portable ADS-B£600
There are lots of devices capable of receiving ADS-B signals and all of them have a way of displaying the information on one or more … Read more
MyPilotPro external camera mount£93
Right, before I get to the review, I’d better get the big question out of the way. Can you mount an external camera to your … Read more
Lightspeed Zulu 3 ANR Headset£816
There’s no escaping the fact that your typical General Aviation aircraft is a noisy place to be. Back in 2002, NASA published a report into … Read more
Gallery
LoPresti Fury
The LoPresti Fury is one sweet-handling, fast, aerobatic tourer. It’s also drop-dead gorgeous. When it was unveiled in the late-eighties, hundreds of people wanted to … Read more
Beech Bonanza
The longest continuously produced aircraft in history, the Beechcraft Bonanza, with it’s V-tail, was a GA revelation when it first appeared in 1946, and it … Read more
Grumman Widgeon
When Grumman originally built the Widgeon seaplane, it was powered by six-cylinder in-line Ranger engines. But many of the 276 produced, like this one, owned … Read more
Turbine Maule M-7-420AC
When Maule Aircraft added a 420shp Allison turbine to their M7 taildragger, they created an awesome piece of General Aviation kit. Expect a rate of … Read more