Jerry_Atrick

If the Queen is in residence at Windsor, which is about 5 miles south of the approach to 09L, the will route the plaes into 27 (L/R) even with a tailwind component of, I think from memory, up to 10kts - may be lower.. so as not to inconvenience her maj, even though the noise that she would get would be not terribly instrusive compared to the 10's or 100s of thousands directly under the final approach into either 27 runway.

Yes, hope the survivors pull through... and condolences to family and friends bereaved...

ATC took decisive control - great job considering the pilot wanted to return to Redcliffe ATSB investigation: Investigation: AO-2020-032 - Pilot incapacitation involving Cessna 208B, VH-DQP, near Brisbane Airport, Queensland, on 2 July 2020

np.. It's not a bad magazine.. I personally don't like the issu.com format and haven't read it since it has gone electronic.. which means I will probably cancel my direct debit and again subscribe to Aussie Flying...

@bluebird121 - sorry to hear about your pesonal circumstances... I think you will be OK to return to the UK (short article, but this is from their free site): UK will ditch travel quarantine for 75 countries, Daily Telegraph says

EASA bans Pakistan International Airlines from European airspace

If anyone's interested, UK Flyer magazine is now digital and totally free to read (I have no affiliation other than still paying them a nominal amount for a few perks): Flyer Digital Team

I didn't know they legalised theft these days...

Actually, I think from Monday - the self isolation thing from people coming from low/no COVId-19 countries (of which Aus has to be one), will no longer be required. The Emirates thing is probably their SOP or maybe something the the UAE requires.. not something I know of from here... When you say you are returning home for good - do you mean Scotland/UK?

I have been to the middle east once for work - to a country that is considered quite western in its approach and lifestyle. Never, ever going back (voluntarily). A complete cesspit of depravity, opression and hypocrisy. People are deminstrating in the streets against slavery but if you look beyind the thin veneer of civility, in this country, slavery is alive and well. When work tried to send me again, I resigned. They retracted the requirement for me to go; I retracted my resignation. I have only seen the pyramids and the wailing wall from a postcard (well, on the 'net now).. I won't miss not seeing them in real life. Back to aviation, with the same company I worked in the Czech Republic a lot. There was no way, back in the late 90s I was going to take an Eastern European airlines flight regardless of the fact they had started flying Boeings. However, their flight times were more convenient and I was talked into taking them once.. I was flying with a colleague who was quite a bit heavier than me (I was once svelt). When we got to our seats, the row in front were bolted not parallel but to a decent angle to us where the ailse seat was so much close than the window seat, she had to give up her preferred ailse seat to me. My immediate thoughts were a) how the hell did they do that as I would have expected their would be fixing points for the seats; and b) if they aren't providing enough care on what we can see, what are they not doing right for what we can't see. Anyway, coming in to land, I could see we were too fast and the descent rate was too high... thinking they would go around, the bone compressing landing was followed by some serious braking that resulted in underseat life jackets coming out and induced a noticable skid on dry day! I have never flown that airline since.

I suggest we carry this on through messaging rather than bore other people with our views.. But I want to state these three things publicly: I used the term squire as a term of respect; I was going to use the term mate, but thought that may be interpreted too sarcastically/cynically. Maybe I should have used the term, sir or not reference the person.. so if you took offence, I publicly apologise - it was not the intention. I don't think you are a hypocrite - quite the opposite actually - and I never asserted you were. I called the defending of U/L in this context and defending its use while castigating people for the use of ICAO codes as hypocritical. I was, in common parlance, attacking the ball, not the man. If the majority of the site take the position, then I don't resile... but I am calling the position of the site hypocritical - not the people or the site itself. So, please don't take it personally; in fact I respect and admire you as a person (online), your publicly expressed views and your publicly expressed opinions. And most often I agree with them. As I was accused of making a joke of everything, I thought it required me to be explicit. ICAO Codes are synonymous with abbreviations. Unf. too many countries start with A and somehow we ended up with Y. The next 3 letters (e.g. BDG, MMB, etc) are abbreviations of the name of the aifield where they can; unf some airfields share similar names and they can't always be reflective. Either way, code or abbreviation, they are not easily understood without knowledge, especially colloquial ones - the difference is semanitcal.. I personally don't see the considered use of codes and abbreviations as a big issue, especially for the reason cited. Happy to take it offline because I may be missing something.

We will have to disagree, Nev.. I wasn't making a joke, I was making a point in an attempt at being non-offensive and not having a public spat on a public forum. People are being castigated for using internationally designated OFFICIAL aviation codes/abbreviations because it will put off those new to aviation. Anyone new to aviation and coming to this (or any other aviation forum) would reasonably expect aviation abbreviations and jargon to be used and I would hazard to guess, not be too put off by it (unless it was an over-exuberant use); and would happily google it. I have to admit, I get a little annoyed when people use them and I don't know what they are, but a quick google sorts it out. But using a colloquial abbreviation in a context to describe the properties of a landing area - by referring to the type of aircraft it can accomodate rather than saying short field or even spelling out the word ultrlight, and new people to "recreational flying" let alone aviation are supposed to somehow, by osmiosis, I suspect, work out what it is - and that is OK and defensible. Sorry, squire it is called hypocrisy by any other term. You either require people to use spell out all but the most common and easily decipherable codes/abbreviations etc so newbies aren't forever googling - and in the U/L case with no real prospect of working out what you mean - or don't castigate people for using them.. simples. I don't even get your point about the AUF.. Recreational flying may mean light sport aircraft or what we in the UK refer to as permit aircraft... but the term recreational virtually everywhere else in the English speaking world refers to private flying - and includes general aviation.. I honestly had no idea what you meant by U/L in the context of landing areas.. and google was of no assistsance, either.. Maybe in the context of diuscussing different types of aircraft, I could work it out. I would go so far as to say, after this spat, that the issue with using ICAO airfield codes is not because it would put newbies off, after all, newbies to any forum of a particular subject would expect OFFICIAL codes/abbreviation and possibly jargon to be used and be prepared to look it up - I think it more has to do with people not wanting to look things up and expecting others to spell it out for them to make their lives easier.. Frankly, this issue is tiny.. if I don't understand anything or know anything, I look it up and if Mr. Google can't give me anything, then I ask - as happened with SIS (and no one complained about its use). [edits to correct typos - though I did invent a new word for a minute - abbreaviation... ]

This is on a new CRM feature for the SR22.... Very instructional...

Ahh.. but some of us are new to U/Ls.. others to aviation, etc.... But there are also LSAs, Microlights. paramotors, etc.... <pedant mode>at least I can google YBDG, or EGLK aith the word airport and it will usually give me the answer.. a newbie googling U/L and the location - not necessarily so... </pedant mode>

No probs... I get it.. But what does U/L stand for?

The droplets on the wing were shimmering in real life.. can't work out why I couldn't catch them in the photo...

The view from the RHS (note, the second altimeter is always set to QNH... The Gozle weather rader at bottom left and the digi engine analyser at top left):

The European skies have just got a little safer ? Yesterday, I handed tentitavely handed over the keys to the TB20.... It was actually organised before lockdown as the idea was that I would be working locally to where I live and it's base is light years away.. so no longer practical. Unfortunately, where I live, the market has dried up so it looks like I will be working back in London if it ever picks up... which is doubtful anyway... Maybe I will set up a used aircraft dealership because at least I made a bit of money on it. But, a low time 2002 TB20GT with 150 hours on the engine and a bare metal respray for the pro-rata equivalent of £145K is not going to be easy to replace. I will upload some photos in the following posts (1 per photo) to beat the size limit ;-) I will miss what little time I had with it.. Actually, in the end, it as a pain in the proverbial. Bought the share in March 2019.. couldn't get the instructor to check me out for 3 months (late June).. Had a good rider in her until it went into the paint shop towards the end of September. The shoddy workmanship at manufacture meant it needed 6 months (because they had to juggle the aircraft coming in for pain after ours was scheduled to go out)... just in time for lock down... But, for a GA complex single, of which I have Mooneys, Bonanzas and, my namesake, Lance's in the log book, this was by far the most comfy and stylish and although a few knots slower than the aforementioned, best touring of them all. We even had a Dynon in there...

I know that permit aircraft (LSA) suitably equipped and individually approved aircraft can fly IFR/in IMC. I assumed you could get an IMC Rating (or IR®) attached to the NPPL... is this not the case? A quick internet search without having to read the legal mumbo jumbo wasn't conclusive. I also believe NPPLs can fly in most European countries, but need to obtain prior permission (except for those mentioned by Ice-Wave)... Also, I think Germany and Austria are also on the list of European countries where NPPLs are able to fly for up to 30 days without permission. Not 100% sure as I am GA/PPL...

Noone seems to have heard anything, bur @red750 have provided the last confirmed sighting ;-)

I don't know and haven't heard of any special permit required for international travel to the UK. Best to contact the British consular services/embassy for details, It may be a requirement for stopover destinations.. will have to check with the airline or those countries' consular services. There is a legal requirement to self-isolate - you will have to tell the Border Force/immigration where you are self isolating and they may do spot checks (my guess is they won't). This will be a good read: Just as Air Travel Is Picking Up, U.K. Imposes a Quarantine My guess is most people will ignore it as the chances of a spot check will be low and even if they get issued a £1,000 fine, who is going to make them pay it? By the time you arrive, the self isolation requirement would likely my removed anyway, but even so, airlines are suing the government over it: Airlines Challenge U.K.’s Quarantine to Boost Travel Market BTW - many happy returns to your mum...

NPPL is National Private Pilots License. It has a lower level of training required and it is either a self declared medical or a GP checks you to the standard of a truck triver or something. Anyway, requirements are here: UK CAA Nation Private Pilot’s Licence (NPPL) – Ravenair and on reading it is basically a PPL with lower hours required (for the SSEA version). The alternate is the EASA issued LAPL (Light Aircraft Pilots Licence). Not sure of the training requirements - I think it is the same. But as I understand the medical required is virtually a class 2 medical.. So mamy don't bother with it (over 50, an EASA class 2 is required every year and every two years they require an ECG. When you have to do the ECG, it becomes an expensive undertaking). Either is required to fly "Permit" aircraft... i.e. LSAs.

CASA?