Light Aircraft Association

Whatever it's called and however you want to spell it, the press release and voucher is now on the home page of the website.
What happened to the rather pretentious Wolverhampton International Airport monicker?

Unfortunately too late for the March issue of LA came news that Helfpenney Green is offering half price landings over the Easter weekend (March 21st - 24th). They have a voucher that they ask you print out and present, I don't have a clue how to reproduce that here so I'll ask Penny to put it onto t...

It depends whether or not there is a fly-in to go to doesn't it. We're not exactly spoiled for choice this time of year. A tenner not making much difference? It's better as fuel in my tank for another half an hour's flying than in somebody else's pocket I think.

There seems to be some confusion over landing vouchers and fly-ins and the two are completely separate. If there is a fly in it is on a specific day or weekend and people decide to go to that event. The voucher is usually valid for a calendar month and you go whenever the fancy takes you during that...

Bill, there isn't a PR department at Turweston! Marketing is handled by a small sub committee of mainly EC members. As part of that comittee I am asking for volunteers so that this isn't yet another job that is left to a small number of already busy EC members. I know several of my flying mates who ...

Landing vouchers in LA would be good, and in fact I did have somebody a couple of years ago wo was going to negotiate with airfields to get them to agree free landing vouchers for members as they do with some of the other magazines. Unfortunately the person didn't get the thing off the ground so it ...

Thank you BJ for adding a BMAA council view. However, please let's not also run away with the idea that LAA offered a job to Jon in order to scupper BMAA's VLA intentions. Our membership survey highlighted Engineering as requiring more investment in staff to cut waiting times, something we already n...

Before we get too many people reading too much into this, the heirachy within BMAA have not levelled any animosity toward LAA at all over Jon deciding to come and work with us, they accept it is all part of business. Just as we did in fact, when BMAA tried (unsuccessfully) to coax Francis away from ...

I've worn glasses all my life and when I was getting on for fifty I too got to the point where my arms weren't long enough to read the paper. I asked my optician about varifocals and he recomendd against them, saying few people actually needed them and that bi-focals were easier to get used to. I ha...

The exemption issued by the CAA last year will indeed be coming up for review shortly. For some years CAA had filed a difference to the ICAO requirement for the carriage of ELTs in non commercial aircraft. This was set to change about a year ago, and CAA had been promoting PLBs at its Safety evening...

The problem with a non database GPS is twofold. First you have to input every single waypoint, and thus you increase the possibility of finger trouble feeding in incorrect data. More importantly, when it all goes t*ts up and you have been over relying on the GPS but need to divert, you wont have the...

The name change has been very positively received by those involved in the legislative and regulatory organisations with which we are involved at home and in Europe. The name says not only who we are but also what we are, no need to have to explain what 'Popular' flying stands for. Have to say I won...

The vote in question was taken at an AGM where there was certainly a quorum, I think three AGMs ago. It has been the last couple of years where there hasn't been sufficient members present for the meeting to go ahead without the rule that provides for the meeting to continue without a quorum being e...

Sorry about this guys. The magazine went to press and was printed on the due dates. It seems to have disappeard into a black hole since it went to the mailing house, though they say it went out. We are currently re-checking with them and I am awaiting an answer.

Pete, the rule change would have been published in the mag, I am not going to trawl back through to find it but it is usual practice to publish rule changes prior to the AGM. I seem to remember it was also debated at length on the BB prior to the AGM. It was accepted by a majority at the AGM, the us...