Light Aircraft Association

I'm sure this is going to turn out to be a fifty-fifty split but I preferred the engineering sections stapled in What would be really neat, of course, would be to have these very useful sections archived on the website as downloadable PDFs. Then we could all find them, always. (When I say "all" I'm...

One comment is that the font size seems a touch small In the spirit of constructive criticism, the main the wrong with some of the text, typographically speaking, is that the letter spacing is set too tight, sometimes far too tight. The main contents page is a case in point. I have reservations abo...

What does 6(1)(b)(ii) mean?

(ii) a declaration in writing that he will not permit that aircraft to be flown other than as a State aircraft unless he has first provided the CAA with such a certificate or such other evidence of insurance.

Specifically, what does "other than as a State aircraft" mean?

Sounds like they are following up some relatively new legislation -- check this: http://www.caa.co.uk/default.aspx?catid=56&pagetype=70&gid=864 However, if you put your aircraft's details into G-INFO, and follow the "mandatory insurance link", you'll find a page that includes the sentence It is the ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7402016.stm
Now all that's needed is to increase the wing area to meet the SSDR regs (and probably find an optimistic noise meter...)

Six axis...? Are these measuring ripples in space-time as well?

Absolutely right Bill -- took the words out of my mouth. Gary, I think you're playing fast and loose with the language. You said first It is common practice that an abstention is counted as a no vote Then you give sources that say e.g. If a rule specifies a voting requirement based on the number of ...

It is common practice that an abstention is counted as a no vote.

Err, not in any voting process I've ever been involved in...where is it "common practice"?

...couldn't find the strip easily although it was on the CAA map because his GPS was a road one There is some spectacularly unjoined-up thinking in this respect. Last year, I phoned the police to report some possible dodgy goings-on I had encountered while traipsing over the countryside. I gave the...

Richard, How about this: http://www.analog.com/en/prod/0,2877,ADXL202,00.html
plus a soldering iron!?
This also has sundry links: http://www.sensorland.com/HowPage003.html

my inspector wants to see a more formal approach Did he elaborate on this at all? Perhaps he just wants evidence that the scales are accurate, in which case stick a known heavy weight on and take a photo showing all the relevant detail. That should take care of the a**e-covering! (Our aircraft was ...

I notice that this Mr Pugh is using the term "commercial airport", which is perhaps being economical with the truth.
You really can't win, can you? Put an airfield near habitation and people complain; put it in the middle of nowhere...and they still complain!

All we'll have to do now is think of a name...

Mike C, So what about the work that the LAA does on airspace issues, or negotiating with EASA? Doesn't happen for free: should "non-flying members" pay for this too? You can balkanise pretty much any organisation thusly, but not necessarily to its overall long-term benefit.

Engineering's costs be met entirely out of the fees charged for engineering work. That way the non-flying LAA member is not cross-subsidising work that he derives no benefit from. Mike C, I was in whole-hearted agreement with much of what you've said, until this bit! We're an association : trying t...