South coast and southwest drone users are invited to a major free drone safety event at Compton Abbas airfield on Saturday 11 November. The first … Read more
News
CAA gives pilot licensing a makeover
The UK CAA is taking its licensing system online with a new ‘e-Licensing’ portal. It will start in December this year for commercial pilots, and … Read more
Has the Kestrel made its last landing?
Reports in the US press are saying Kestrel Aircraft Company has been evicted from its planned production and engineering base at Brunswick Landing, Maine, for … Read more
What a raffle prize! Spitfire flight
Aviation Without Borders is a leading UK aviation charity and each year it runs a Spitfire raffle to raise funds for National Fly Kids Day … Read more
Japanese ace wins 2017 Red Bull Air Race title
+VIDEO This season’s Red Bull Air Race World Championship has been unpredictable from the start with several racers still in contention for the title going … Read more
Reviews
EasyVFR BasicFree
When the Airspace Aware app first came out, back around 2013, it was part of a campaign to reduce airspace infringements by ensuring as many … Read more
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