Light Aircraft Association

If like me you usually pay off your credit card in full you may not be aware of this little trick. If you are with Lloyds MasterCard and don't pay off ALL the amount owing they used to charge you on the remainder which was fair enough. However they have changed the rules so that you now pay interest...

I used POR 15 as a primer as it is both rust tolerant and high temperature. After that barbecue paint from B+Q works well as again it's temperature tolerant. The latter comes in aerosol form but you need to spray the former. Frost restoration sell the POR and you'll need to thin it for spraying. A g...

If you could scan them it would be great. It's rubbish weather so will give me something to read. If you send it to [email protected] that would be fabulous!

Has anyone out there got either the tool for aligning the P12 or the instruction book? Unlike normal compasses they have 4 small square adjusters and they have no labels! The tool is like a tiny version of a radiator bleed tool and as to the procedure,,,, There's 4 adjusters as I say and they intera...

I just watched the CAA online tutorial on infringements. The radar trace of one near Heathrow presumably meant something to someone but to me it looked like the display on my phone last time I cracked the screen! With a voice over it would have been useful but I have to say to the uninitiated it was...

I have a copy of Darrol Stinton's book "Flying qualities and flight testing of the aeroplane" if anyone wants it. Not light reading but useful if designing or testing. This is currently out of print and even on abe books is £150. I'll let it go for a fair bit less to a person who needs it rather tha...

I always enjoy a fly in but the costs I've been quoted for some this year are getting out of hand. I have a classic aircraft which they want in the static display but I've had quotes of £22 per person, £15 per person and at the other end Sywell at a fiver per aircraft. What do people think. is the t...

Well let's play along for now. If we can show safe movements with a radio reporting zone this will disarm their arguments for anything else. They could have been given a TMZ off the ends of the runway like Stanstead has. If it works, they won't fix it.

I actually think this is pretty reasonable. Compared with their request of a CTR that big a radio zone is a lot less. Remember the Upper Heyford mandatory reporting area? OK you have to say hello on the radio, hardly a life changing event. If you want a strop, go and put an end to Farnborough's dema...