Light Aircraft Association

Hi John, major changes to the north and east of Stansted, plus some other odds and ends. John Brady has written about it in the next issue of the mag, out next week. He will be collating responses before making an LAA response. Most of the airspace change is above what most of us fly at, but it will...

The easiest thing to build into an aircraft is complexity. What do you need to know - how much fuel is left. What is the cheapest and least complex method to achieve that - either a sight guage (tube with a coloured ball), or a float and wire sticking out the cap. No electrics or electronics, minimu...

Hi Joe, ethanol in mogas is a very big headache at the moment. LAA is currently looking at ways and means of detecting ethanol in fuel, the current recommended CAA method does not work. Additives to combat the potential corrosion issues that ethanol can bring are also being investigated. LAA is seek...

Welshman, please do not infer that I or anybody else at LAA is being anything but honest with our responses about the old BB, or anything els for that matter. The shop and the old BB were hacked into and though the shop has been sorted the BB remains a problem. I asked Penny about this when I was at...

Hi Paul, I know HR Jennings do a specific policy for just this situation, very reasonably priced too I beleive. They advertise in the mag.

Parkair, the US is NOT adopting ADSB to the exclusion of Mode S. They will have Mode S and ADSB will be as well as, not instead of it. The reality is that we are going to get Mode S, we must all now ensure that we respond to the Consultation so that we get our views across and get the best deal we c...

HI Mike, my understanding is that we are all to get new licences FOC with the rating on it. I believe when the rating has expired it will simply be a case of getting an instructor or coach to sign you up at grade 6 (lasts for life), this could be done at you biennial. Of course, if you live north of...

Mike, you should consider it as an opportunity to come down out of the caves to see how the other half live!

hi CP, the Shekari was short lived and not produced in large numbers. The new S19 is the replacement, it hasn't been around for long but kits are being shipped and it has been approved in the US as an LSA. Skycraft are the UK Rans dealer and intend getting the S19 UK approved. Suggest you have a tal...

Hi Mishek, I raised this suggestion at a Marketing Committee meeting a week or so ago, and at today’s National Council meeting asked Strut representatives to talk to airfields in their areas to try and get them to free landing vouchers for Light Aviation magazine. My hope is that we can run a very s...

Thank you all for your kind comments, it is reassuring to know that the magazine is meeting many members' requirements. We are plannig some major changes over the coming months, and Cirrus that does mean that we will be expanding content to encompass a wider audience flying other than LAA type aircr...

Hi Steve, have to say that all I get is conflicting stories! There is a Mode S seminar at Turweston next Saturday (15th ), open to all. I hope we at last get some definitive answers.

Hi Cirrus, or should that be el-lo stratus, we do seem to be having delivery problems at the moment. The magazine was finished printing on Thursday, so should have been mailed Friday latest and possibly got to some members on Saturday and the vast majority today. My post has been and I haven't had m...

Hi Gnasher, from the reports I get Engineering usually turn it around in less than a week and then it's up to CAA, usually a couple of weeks from them, but sometimes they pull out the stops and get it done a bit faster.

Jabiru, or at least ST Aviation, has been supplying an electric heater that fits onto the side of the carburettor for two or three years now. Mike Moulai has one fitted to his Jab 2200 powered Kolb and reckons it works very well.