Light Aircraft Association

They are ok for clubbing flies to death,but that's about all!

If plastic wings are best,or wooden ones,why oh why are there so many of those awfull slabs of aluminium flying around attached to RV fusalages??????

The A.U.W. is the decider,how you achieve it is up to you.Lots of 4 seaters will not carry 4 pax and full tanks. Simple answer is fly with less fuel to stay within limits,shed weight(aircraft equipment not needed,or diet!) . Or difficult way, apply to the LAA for weight upgrade. This would involve s...

The problem at Lt Snoring was that you had to back track to clear the runway and due to the conditions,most people were landing deep,some even ran onto the extension. Stopping there would have effectively shut down the runway so I felt under pressure to taxi clear. As I said no real damage done on t...

Thanks,that seems logical.However,being faced with landing on the runway and aircraft in the circuit waiting for you to clear so that they can land is difficult.It is not practical to shut down and block the runway to be pushed 1000yds.Then there is the problem of getting home again.

We finally got a forum fly-in and the people at Little Snoring obviously went out of their way to put on a good do,lovely grub AND good weather. Many thanks for all your efforts. However(please don't take this as a personal winge-no harm done this time) I have never taxied so far over so many large ...

I hope you grounded the 'plane,you do know its illegal to remove the nest whilst there is an egg in it ?
Just carry on paying the hangarage and insurance and send the bill to the RSPB or whoever.

Hope to be there,now that I have relocated to Norfolk,I calculate it will take me 3 hrs driving for the round trip to get to the 'plane ,say 1hr to get it out and put it away afterwards and 12 mins airborn!
Oh Well!!

O.K. I own up! I am the weather Jonah.I hereby publicly declare that I won't come even if its glorious sunshine.(At least then the rest of you will probably get brillant weather!).

Nothing wrong with your maths Mike,just the strong arm tactics that you support.
Presumably,as an inspector ,you would support me multiplying my expenses by the number of owners per group when I do an inspection????

Steve,most people would say that going to the AGM is more important than missing one fly in,but St.Omer is dfferent!If I couldn't go I would give up flying!
Besides,the gnomes would rovoltif they didn't get their holiday and Claud (the french one that came home with me last year) is getting homesick!

I'll try to make it,haven't been anywhere yet this year!

I really would like to go this year having been thwarted for the last 2 years.(may have a spare seat?).

Last year I bought an all singing and dancing job not in black and white (I can't spell colour),with terrain awarenes etc etc. I just couldn't get on with it,it took ages to sort out,took up loads of room and I never trusted it because I knew I probably hadn't programmed it correctly! Back to the tr...

Bearing in mind the original(d9) jodel was open cockpit,is there any reason why the d11 series can't be flown open?