Light Aircraft Association

Empty 2 berth hangar in excellent condition needs occupants. No hangar rent except for your time in maintenance/improvement of strip and hangers plus the occasional ride. The strip is 360 metres x 20m with short grass with plastic ground reinforcement to enable year round use on 060/240. Rolls and g...

No Dave, there's no hard evidence for that suggestion, but then there's no evidence for Paul's suggestion that the small additional level of cost would be the final nail in the coffin for potential pilots either. I was just putting an alternative viewpoint - but let's face it, Joe Public's view of G...

Thanks Paul, as you say, there's a range of scenarios and factors involved in making GA safer, some more effective than others, some more, some less affordable. And for some would be pilots the lack of widespread anti-collision equipment in GA may also be one of the things holding them back from lea...

Thanks Dave. I think sometimes there's too much reluctance to mandate in GA. Look at the automotive world and safety mandates are accepted as part of the ongoing development of how we get from A to B on our roads. As I've said, there's many a way to skin a cat, be it mandate or cost incentive throug...

Thank you for your excellent response Brian. One point of clarification, though I gave PilotAware as one example of a low cost solution, my call was for such solutions in general. I do appreciate both the LAA's limitations of authority as well as its work in enabling uncertified GPS sources to be us...

Quite Richard, it is still the pilot that must take action. But you make an excellent point, these devices do provide an enhanced air traffic controller service. Our GA airfields are struggling to stay open, let alone provide full ATC. Given the serious pressures on air traffic controllers and the c...

No, I have no greater knowledge than you as to the causes of the crash, but it is safe to say that there were four pairs of eyes in those aircraft with many, many hours of flying experience behind them and it was not sufficient to prevent an horrific accident. Yes, we can hope that the full investig...

Gentlemen, The time has come for the UK to take more positive action on aviation mid-air collisions. Last week’s collision in Buckinghamshire involved two certified aircraft, both with instructors on board, both aircraft with occupants with hundreds if not thousands of hours of flying experience bet...

Anyone got any of the inflatable GA type lifejackets for sale?

Many thanks

Piers

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I have a pair of Zulus and my instructor had recently bought the Bose X, so we tried swapping over. I can't remember what the intercom system is in that PA28, but it's a fairly standard setup. Both sets were excellent in terms of noise cancelling. Sound quality was excellent on both, but the Bose se...