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by Nick Allen
Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:22 am
Forum: Aircraft Construction & Maintenance
Topic: Degaussing a steel tube airframe
Replies: 4
Views: 8350

There was a discussion on the old BB about this: http://www.pfa.org.uk/cgi-bin/ultimateb ... 029#000000
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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.)
by Nick Allen
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,...
by Nick Allen
Tue Jan 08, 2008 10:10 pm
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: New vs. Old Bulletin Board
Replies: 36
Views: 25640

I had a mail from Penny to say that the old BB would definitely not be junked, but they were still working out what to do with the content. I've offered to try and fillet it into some searchable form if all else fails.
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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 ...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
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...
by Nick Allen
Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:03 am
Forum: Hangar Chat
Topic: International flights and Mode S
Replies: 45
Views: 37762

Rod, That's good news (well, it is for people who have Mode C already!). Thanks for the update. I don't suppose there's any information about Germany and Italy is there? I'm harbouring a desire to fly down the Apennines.
Perhaps we need to wait for the "Guide" you mention.