Congratulations to Dan Johnson from Basingstoke, Hampshire, who has been drawn from the hat as the winner of £1,500-worth of flight training and a Garmin … Read more
News
Flight Design delivers first F2, updates CT series
The first of Flight Design’s new F2 aircraft has arrived in the USA. The F2 is a clean-sheet design and will be produced alongside Flight … Read more
Airbus backs The People’s Mosquito build project
+VIDEO Airbus is backing The People’s Mosquito project to build a de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito. Financial backing from the aerospace giant is a significant step … Read more
Planning Tomorrow’s Weather Webinar
FLYER weatherman Simon Keeling is holding a free weather webinar tomorrow, 8 April at 7pm. It’s titled: ‘Forecast With Me – Planning Tomorrow’s Weather’. “I’ll … Read more
CAA issues 7-month exemption for PMD pilots
The CAA has issued a 7-month exemption to allow UK EASA PPL and LAPL holders to continue to operate UK-registered EASA aircraft having made a … Read more
Reviews
Garmin Autoland
The thought of ‘what am I going to do if the pilot dies?’ probably goes through the mind of almost every non-pilot passenger who comes … Read more
Our Favourite Books
It’s winter with short days, muddy strips and sometimes challenging weather nibbling away at our opportunities to fly. Never mind, read instead! Chatting away in … Read more
David Clark Pro-X2 Headset£762
Supra-aural. It means ‘on-ear’ and is significant here, as pretty well all GA headsets fit circum-aural, or around the ear, giving the opportunity to seal … Read more
ForeFlight’s graphical notamEuropean subscriptions £95.98 to £287.98
For a while now the big players in the US app market, ForeFlight and Garmin, have been trying to carve themselves a slice of the … Read more
Worx Hydroshot Cordless Pressure Washer£130
The idea of using a pressure washer to clean your pride and joy might raise some eyebrows. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find a … 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 its 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