Light Aircraft Association

There's some confusion over insurance requirements and LAA/Scout/ATC requirements. Aircraft passenger and third party insurance requirements are laid down by CAA/EASA laws and depends on certain factors including the number of passengers carried. The LAA has a policy to cover the Association in case...

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I heard from Andre at MKAS that their pool of volunteer pilots for flying the Young Aviators last weekend was about 2/3 the number who offered in 2009. As he manages a mixed scouts and non-scouts with the different currency requirements it can't all be due to that, but I suspect the economic climate...

If anyone with the appropriate experience and currency to fly scouts on a couple of 20-min nav flights from Kemble could help out this Saturday, please give me a ring 01761490653 or email dave@flyers.org.uk , or reply here. I've arranged free landings and can meet non-flying expenses. Scout regs are...

...and there was me thinking someone had done a 'find and replace all' without realising it!

I had a long chat - well, a few, with Colin as NATS were in the same marquee as the YES stand. He says a new Notam format is on its way that can be digested by computers and will lend itself to reliable visual representation. That's good news. Meanwhile sites like Mike Hallam's recommendation and UK...

Thanks Mike. I'm sure they do all that is feasible within the funding they have. It's meant as a wish-list rather than a condemnation. The easier something is to check on, the more likely it is to be checked.

That would probably work for me for one of the instructors - I think I'm the only LAA member in this CofA group though. I wondered if it was something that could encourage the setting up of some sort of owner maintenance certificate - I think the French have plans for something like that, or did I j...

That's good to know, Mike, but I wish they would respond as positively over using the ICAO identifiers as route identifiers for a narrow route brief - yes I know, they don't conform to identifiers on a flight plan so can't be used. In these days of clever programmers, that isn't really an excuse. Sa...

The big decider on how busy it is will be the weather. Take a look at the forecast later in the week if you can. Last year most came on the Saturday as the cross-wind was worse on the Sunday.

I think the Eindecker is one as well.

Thanks John.

Plans are also available from Cedar Rapids, Iowa; $33.95 to the UK.

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We're hoping to regenerate Spitfire plans, as we can't find them available from anywhere.

Mike Clews at Royal Berks Strut also has a set, and a Tiger Moth pedal plane to prove it.

It seemed with all the recently-published CAA exemptions that pilots of goup-owned aircraft can pay for training (other than ab-initio) in their group aeroplane. Clearly that is a desirable situation as there's little point paying for time on a PA28 when you need to practise on a PA22. However, ther...

Reading the broader requirements and the associated forms etc., it is debateable that there was ever any intention for GMPs to be able to sign off a self-declaration along the lines of the NPPL. In context, the “or” to “and” switch appears to be tidying up the drafting rather than a sea change thro...