Search found 456 matches
- Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:22 am
- Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
- Topic: Degaussing a steel tube airframe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8350
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:30 pm
- Forum: Fly-Ins
- Topic: Forum event?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 39632
How about Hinton? Good long hard runway plus three grass strips (little-known secret as they are not marked in the flight guides). Free landings. Close to Turweston, so perhaps some LAA folk could be dragged along. Active LAA "cell" -- we even have a caravan! Cons: (i) parachuting and gliding on sit...
- Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:42 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Lightweight aircraft.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8711
This one may do: www.affordaplane.com (I think I metricised the spec a while back and it seemed to fit the regs, though the weight is right on the limit so you'd have to build carefully.)
- Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:43 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Old PFA BB access
- Replies: 22
- Views: 18614
Brian, Thanks for this. Jeremy, One solution is to log into the old BB using this from a computer you haven't used for this purpose before (a colleague's?). (I'm currently away, and working on a laptop that is virginal in this respect, and went straight to the old BB without problem.) Alternatively,...
- Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:10 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: New vs. Old Bulletin Board
- Replies: 36
- Views: 25640
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 7:59 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: International flights and Mode S
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37762
Leia, When I joined my syndicate five years ago this week, one of the group -- a keen continental tourer -- was pushing to replace the Mode C with Mode S, as he was worried that his cross-channel jaunts were about to be curtailed. We held back: every year we discuss it again, and every year the powe...
- Mon Jan 07, 2008 12:55 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Lightweight aircraft.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8711
As I understand, and I'm sure Jeremy H, can clarify, you have to have the noise tested according to a standard schedule. Weight? Well, any aircraft should have a W&B shouldn't it? And wing area, as Welshman said, is pretty straightforward. It would be nice to think you could just submit this to the ...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:32 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: LAA first impression
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16262
Errr, Gerry, the main reason for name change was to spread the appeal of the Association beyond its traditional owner/builder community base, and thereby to attract new members. (I seem to remember some article in which the stated aim was to become the association for anyone with an interest in ligh...
- Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:57 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: LAA first impression
- Replies: 26
- Views: 16262
"This is a Website to support LAA Members" True, but it's also the Association's first point of contact for many potential new members, our shop window if you will, and seemed (in its first incarnation at least) memorably glitchy, way beyond what one would expect if basic testing had been done prope...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:43 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Doublethink...or is it thoughtcrime
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4950
No, what I meant was that as written it appears as if the LAA has been in existence since year X, and the PFA has been airbrushed out -- hence my Orwellian reference. The text could have been rewritten to say e.g. ...I joined the Association in 1998. I'm not claiming any great conspiracy here: I ass...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:43 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Factory Built
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29068
Graham, Happy New Year to you too. And welcome: how many attempts did you have to make to work out the login!? CP, I'm not confused by the desire to "buy and fly" (and for the record I fly a certified aircraft expensively crafted by top-notch German craftsmen, admittedly 30+ years ago), but I am con...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 10:10 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Factory Built
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29068
And another thing... the European "non-certified" scene is far from homogeneous -- the Member States are retaining their own systems -- so it is a fallacy to talk about "the rest of Europe" as if it is an entity. If an aircraft is EASA certified, then that's another matter, but we're then moving bac...
- Fri Jan 04, 2008 1:12 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Factory Built
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29068
CP, I'm still not quite sure where you're going with this line, or what exactly you're after. Is that you want a shiny new (and modern) aircraft that you can run on a Permit but don't want to/don't feel you can build yourself? You want to have such a plane "professionally" built -- by a factory or a...
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:39 pm
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: Factory Built
- Replies: 37
- Views: 29068
"EUROPE can buy and fly for the same price as we buy and build." Can you give a "for instance" of this? "No time to build so should this exclude me from being a member?" Absolutely not. There are lots of second-hand permit aircraft available. And completed aircraft of approved design can be imported...
- Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:03 am
- Forum: Hangar Chat
- Topic: International flights and Mode S
- Replies: 45
- Views: 37762