+VIDEO The world’s first fully type certified electric aircraft is about to be announced: the new Pipistrel Velis Electro. The handover of the Type Certificate … Read more
News
Under £23,000! Minifox Evo Speed’s first UK flight
+VIDEO Under £23,000 for a fully-enclosed brand-new aircraft? You must think we’re kidding but no. The Minifox Evo Speed is a single seater meeting SSDR … Read more
ForeFlight upgrades with 3D Visual Approaches
+VIDEO ForeFlight has just released the latest version of its flightplanning and navigation software which includes the ability to preview and ‘virtually fly’ a 3D … Read more
FLYER expands into podcasts and YouTube
Well, here we are. House-bound, working from home, unable to go flying. But while we at FLYER continue to produce the best flying magazine in … Read more
Ultimate Aerobatics announces two scholarships for rating
Ultimate Aerobatics, in partnership with Total UK Aviation Fuels, is offering an aerobatics rating scholarship for two pilots. The two scholarships will result in the … 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