Light Aircraft Association

Well I'm glad to hear that others found the CAA explanation difficult to understand. My brain tends to switch off as soon as I try reading this sort of jumbled up stuff. Why on earth can’t these people write it in plain English? There are two reasons why in my view.. 1) They don’t want us to underst...

Talking about exotic locations for the magazine brought to mind a situation that I had many years ago, when I was a member of the PFA. I work on a large diving ship that was operating in Sarawak at the time and I was leaving the vessel by helicopter to proceed on a period of leave. The flight was pe...

Simon The points I’m making with regard to all the overblown safety nonsense are aimed at the individual. I wouldn’t expect the LAA Executive committee to take a sole stand on this and suffer the consequences. I think that if everyone made their own personal stand against it, it would have a far mor...

Simon Edmund Burke, an Irish statesman and Member of Parliament in the 1700s is credited by some people for being the originator of the of the phrase:- “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing” . Whilst I would not go as far as to suggest that the H&S brigade and th...

Graham Have you looked at the Starduster Too? It's an LAA friendly aeroplane (with a mod here and there) and should be OK on a PTF. They're going for about £17K to £22K on Barnstormers.com at the present $/£ rate. About £3K to ship it back to the UK plus the government's VAT grab of course. Still se...

I was a member of the PFA for many years, but allowed my membership to lapse for quite a long time after becoming totally disillusioned with the negative way things were going. The demise of the International rally was high on this list, but after recently hearing that the LAA were “restructuring” t...