Jerry_Atrick

That would have hurt more, I reckon...

Well, this year's plans have been well and truly stuffed.. First a one month bare metal respray taking over 6 months and then the day after it is put back into service, the UK announces its lock-down. With hindsight, I should have hired a local Warrior during the respray but a) it was always just a couple of weeks away; and b) the TB20 costs be £125/hr versus a tatty Warrio/C172 at £170+ per hour or we did have a tatty TB20 made available to us at £250/hr was a big disincentive. So this is what has happened: Not much training has been done, though I have passed the IMCr theory test. The paperwork for the US piggy back licence came through - can't find anyone to do the BFR Was planing to do aeros in the summer.. Trip to Turkey for the Anzac day memorial cancelled. Mid June's Italy fly in is looking in doubt. Didn't get to Liverpool.. Australia trip off until next year (on account of the work situation) - was slack in starting the ASIC application - took ages to find my birth certificate. But, there's a sliver lining: Spending time with the kids that was sorely missed in pursuit of a living Going beyond just the IMC theory to full I/R theory (well, actually, ATPL theory). Spending more time becoming familiar with the POH and TB20 systems Getting fitter (until the calf tear) Sometimes, poop happens and you can't control it, so may as well make the best of it.

There are a lot of airborne bugs?

I'm not 100% sure the LAPL medical is that much easier than the class 2, however, the UK had a derogation that recently expired - I think it included self-decalred fitness to fly. However, I think they can still do GP medicals - though this may be for the UK NPPL (National PPL), which is the UK version of a LAPL, rather than the LAPL. Good luck!

Hello Tuto - com e stas? The UK CAA has guidance on its website, which for class 1 and class 2, is still under EASA rules; for geitourinary guidance, see: Genitourinary guidance material (GM) | UK Civil Aviation Authority. Specifically: This is obviously for class 1, but therefore shows class 2 is not impossible.. Look up a local aviation medical examiner and pop them an email.. They usually are only too happy to provide the requisite information. Be prepared to have your doctor and renal medical consultant have to be involved. ALso - do you need Class 2? For the LAPL (EASA's Light Aircraft Pilots Licence), the medical is less stringent I understand and Spain may well have its one VLA/ULA national licence and medical requirements which are even less stringent. In the UK, up into a week or so ago, national licences only needed a self declaration (but the derogation ran out).

G'Day Macca... Welcome to the forums! What sort of aviation are you interest in? Bad timing, but if you haven't already, a good time to do any formal theory reading in preparation for when it all restarts.

The Shareoplane came up for insurance renewal a few weeks ago. We decided to put it on ground insurance, but there are (over here) different levels - for example, one level didn't cover vandalism. theft (of avionics, fuel, etc). So, we opted for a higher level of insurance.. And it was sweetened as we found an insurer who said since the pilot who belly-landed the plane has left the syndicate, the risk is lower and you don't need to wait the normal period before we apply no claims discounts. When we are flying again, the insurance will be £1000 cheaper.

No worries! WIll have to watch my typing though.. It's different in Europe. I learned between YMMB and YCEM (I am an Aussie expat). There is great flying in Aus; there is great flying here, too.. just different.. The regulators are much the same anywhere, though EASA is a real pain in the posterior... The CAA much more practical and as EASA can't get their grubby hands on anything other than cert (though they have slightly encroached), we enjoy a bit more of a practical approach.

Welcome, Flightrite.. I am thinking of including permit aircraft in my repetoire.. There is a reciprical agreement betwween the UK, France, Germany, Austria and I thnk Italy and Spain so permit aircraft, which covers VLAs and ULAs and maybe even some MLAs are allowed to be flown between these countries on their national licences/certifcates without permission and can stay for a max od 30 days.. So, that £200 flight using a spamcan from a London airfield to Le Touqet for lunch suddenly gets a whole lot cheaper.. and with similar performance (I have only flown across the channel once with more than two people in the A/C and I was not flying that day). In the UK and at least the other countries listed in Europe,, permit aircraft (the collective term for VLA, ULA and I think, microlights) have virtually the same privileges as GA aircraft if they are adequately equipped (Mode S transponder and 8.33KHz radio). I think (but don't quote me), they have a dispensation for a full flight radiotelephone operators licence but do some training - the skies are too small here not to use the radio (though some stubbornly don't have the radio or transponder - but not many - and they do have restrictions as they can't transitcontrolled airspace nor transit transmponderor radio mandtory zones, nor can they cross an international flight boundary). Also, recently, the CAA have, with the LAA (equivalent of RAAus) allowed permit aircraft suitably equiped to be used for IMC flight for suitably qualified pilots (Sub ICAO IMC rating/Instrument Rating (Restricted). I will still fly cert GA as I also go to Belgium and that is a 90EUR fee for permission for set dates in and out for permit aircraft and no refund if the wx doesn't play balkl or for someother reason you can't makeit. Also, I go to other countries in Europe and was planning Turkey at the end of April - just cancelled it though.

My Shareoplane ended up in teh hangar for a bre metal respray for 6 months; so I was planning a check flight anyway. This flying furlough will make it a definite. Even if I was flying the PA28, which I have oodles of ours on, I still have self-imposed rule of a layoff of three continuous months, and I will do a check flight. They usually last an hour or two.. and £25/hr, it isn't going to break the bank.

I have no idea of the quality of the runway - I am sure it wasn't designed for jet traffic though - and it coudln't have been too bad to survive my PA28 landing, which on the day, was a little smoother than the one in the video ;-)

@SplitS - How is 100 times the maximum influenza death rate at a period of lock down, so relative containment, where if left unchecked, the rate of deaths could be much higher with or without co morbidity factors not be justified? BTW, I agree that if the evidence supports it, then loosn or tier the restrictions - but at the moment, the relatively independent healt officials are not deeming it that way - unless you think they are in China's pocket? Bindi - tired of hearing your quotes from sites whos jounalistic credibility is questionable by most of the fact checking organisations.. Without even having to look it up, the ONS is not part of the NHS as they claim.. Your theory sort of fails as it would assert virtually all western governments are kow-towing to China - including the USA and Trump? I find it a little incredulous to say the least. If you go to the ONS site your publication quotes, it is very difficult to read how they are doubling up the numbers. It is quite clear that the statistics are provisional and the methods used and there is a delay due to registrations. But nowhere does it say it then uses its statistics and then addes them to other statistics to get a new number, In fact, the gov.u website it states is used for communicating the official stats. You forget, this is the UK - and the tabloid (ex. Fleet Street) press would have a field day if the claim was remotely true. So far, not much from them.. unless you think China is paying them, too. And for Sweden - it is middle of the road and their health workers are very apprehensive at the moment as they think it is only a matter of time. You see, the Swedes trust the government and generally comply with their directions - unlike the Aussies, US and UK, for example. Therefore, when the Swedish government says take sensisble precautions such as maintaining distance, catching your snneezes and coughs and wash hands regularly, the Wedes will do it relatively diligently - there won't be "catch it" parties and the like. They are also, like Japan, a relatively mono-cultural society so they don't have has much diversity of originating destinations of people travelling to them. Thirdly, unlike Italy, they have a high number of single person households - which by definition are not inter-generational - over 40%. Health officials there are worried about the lax stand taken and the cinfidence shaking outcome it will have. The unfortunate outcome of this is that there will be deaths out of the other side of it.. But how much of that will involve co-morbitity as well.. those already, say, with mental health conditions that are teetering anyway, etc. Callous, yes, but my point stress is unlikely to be the sole factor,just liek COVD-19 is as well.. The question is which has the more potentiasl to do far greater damage? I don't know the answer to the question - has anyone done the research so that we can make a claim one way is better than the other?

Huh! The UK (like the rest of the northern hemisphere) is in spring. Where I am, it was 24 degrees degrees today. I am sure there are normally flu deaths at all times of the year - if you are thinking it is a period of higher flu deaths, well,. you are wrong. I expect the most cases to be the later weeks of the previous year and the earlu weeks of the current year.. And the official reports back that up. So, looking at last years annual report, on P25, the number of admissions to ICE for influenza - for the whole of week 15 (which is what we are currently in) was.. .drum roll.. under 50.. for the whole week.. Covid 19 sort of dwarfs that figure.. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/839350/Surveillance_of_influenza_and_other_respiratory_viruses_in_the_UK_2018_to_2019-FINAL.pdf Of course, probably not all of them succumbed... but maybe a few hospitalisations that didn't get to ICU may have succumbed. OK - technically you are right - there are normally deaths this time of year due to influena, but the implication is that it is usually a time of higher deaths and this is not true. And the number we can expect, assuming a numeric equivalent of all ICU admissions ends up in death us currently running at about 1% of Covid19 deaths.. (50 / 7 days in a week = near enough to 7. There is more than 700 deaths a day in the UK to COVID-19...) I think someone earlier said do the maths.. Well, we are more densly populated than Aus - maybe Aus can afford to be a bot more lax.. but the reality here is that a slow response seems to have cost us quite a bit.

@Red - where do you fly from? Most of the GA airfields shut down to all but emergency services flights maybe three weeks ago now. I fly from Blackbushe (not my favourite airfield by a longshot, but the shareoplane is my favourite). They c;losed it so that you can't even go and grab any accoutments (like my ipad) that oneleft behind. I live in Somerset, a few miles north west of Taunton. Dunkeswell is my closest airfield, but that is closed as well. There has been a C150 buzzing about - I am guessing from a private strip. BTW, I had a penchant for Honda XL trail bikes.. Saw a 250 on ebay for 2.5K.. Ouch!

I was at Halfpenny Green when the Vampire tore up the runway. We all had to do xwind take offs to get out...

Each state has a slightly different set of rules, which is crazy, but if you go to your property to perform essential maintenance, and given the events over the summer just gone, fire breaks would be considered one I would think, then even the most jobs-worth policeman would find it hard to book you for it. If he (or she) did, let it go to court and see how quickly it gets laughed out.

Love the rego...

I whole heartedly agree... BTW, I have no problem with uninformed speculation - I do it myself... But I am clear that in the absence of facts, from what I have seen, these are POSSIBLE theories.. But when the guy who owns the site says this: "ENOUGH...the topic of this thread and the two unfortunate fellow aviators do not deserve this kind of posting" and from the posts I saw, I have to agree, it exceeded deceny. Berearved may not expressly come to this or any other site for information - but a google search will direct them here...

I have no effin idea what you are talking about... But keep 'em coming.. the banter is most amusing... OK - so let's go to herd immunity.. 95% of the COVID-19 fatals are whatever you think they are - lets say over 65s.. That leaves 5% of the fatality rate for the under 65's Let's humour you and assume all Aussies are under 65 - and I will round down the Aussie population to 24m... And lets round down the infection rate if left unchecked (remember, we are assuming all are under 65) to 50% of the population.,. That's 24m / 2 = 12m and 5% fatality rate (your figures) = 600,000 deaths - are you really happy with that? Oh, and of course, it would happen over a relatively short period, and what you neglect to mention is the percentage that requires hospitalistion and intensive care - of which such a rapid spread would cause many to miss out on as the resources are not there - further increasing the death rate.. which will be more than 5% and also because, of course, Australia has over 65s and the mortaility rate for those is much higher. Tell that to Boris, who is a reasonably fit 55 year old.. I volunteer you to be our guinea pig and get yourself infected and tell us how it turns out.. I would be most curious...

Bummer.. Whereabouts in Canada?

Over here in the UK - virutally all GA airfields are closed to everything except emergency services. Therefore, all instruction - ground or air looks to be off. Yesterday evening, I saw a C150 in the air. Today, at 16:35Z (17:35 local), there is a single Jodel 1050 that looks to have taken off form a private strip (see FR24 pic, below). Notice, there are only 2 rotors airborne in all of Scotland and it looks like a taxying aircraft at Glasgow (found out, it too is a rotor). My guess is these are for North Sea oil rigs... No CAT/RPT. The second picture shows Heathrow and Gatwick (and covers the Heathrow stacking area). No aircraft at Gatwick - just a couple of ground vehicles; Heathrow unbelievably quiet..

Still read the posts - great source of amusement...

In the UK, the guvmint is directly injecting cash into the airlines (is my understanding), including BA, which is now a Spanish company... Flybe went broke because they were already in dire straits... Although I fear for a few flying schools, like the virus itself, those that already have underlying issues will probably be the ones to fall; the guvmint is injecting billions into small businesses that are directly impacted by the lockdown..

Deleted... Thought I was posting against a late pst.. Sorry chaps

Specific: "Clearly identified or defined".. I think we are in agreement there, squire.. Hmm Provision.. Your meaning is the verb; of which it may or may not be.. actually, provision in common parlance as a very beans to provide with or some such meaning (e.g. "He has been provisioned with the basic necessities to see him through the isolatsion period, including copious quantities of dunny roll"). My Blacks Law Dictionary is in one of our unopened boxes since we have moved, but a quick internet search provided this: What is SUNSET PROVISION? definition of SUNSET PROVISION (Black's Law Dictionary) It is a privision [or condition] of law that provides an expiry date or event. Now, for it to be a privision, it has to be legally referenceable - i.e. in a legal instrument of some order such as an act of parliament, delegated legislation, or in the case of EU law, a national competent authority (in the case oif aviation for the UK, the CAA) legal instrument giving local legal effect to the EU law. The point I am making is that provision a generic term in law (when referencing statutory or delegated instruments) that is those statutory or delegated instruments. As you and I both know, quite often legal definitions of terms are not the same as common or derived parlance. Happy to discuss BTW - Congrats on getting Vic government departments to correct things and do the right thing - from experience, that is not eaasy unless you're on the inside..