Aviation Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / August 2004

Heard about this on the BBC news. Does anyone know any more? Sounds like
another tragic stalled attempt to turn around from the climb out.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/3607814.stm

I've been learing to fly for just over two years  (too little time and too
much lousy weather to progess a quickly as I wanted to).  But today I did
the last written exam (Met - 90%).  I thought all was hunky-dory but then
realised that a) I'm time expired on the Air Law so have to ...

was told by a BA pilot that rain passes through a jet engine. Why
doesn't the rain put out the flames, especially in very heavy rain
such as may be experienced in the tropics or a monsoon?
John

Unless we make comments by 17/Sep it is probable that ALL airspace users
will have to pay charges from next year.
Eurocontrol has been empowered by the European Commission to undertake a
consultation on "Implementing Rules on a Common Charging Scheme for Air

Good evening,
in September I'll have the sheer pleasure to spend a week in Edimburgh, thus
discovering Scotland.
I'll pay a visit to the Scottish Museum of Aviation, of course, but I wonder

I flew back to the UK from New York on a Boeing 777 recently - ground
movement felt different to all the other aircraft I have travelled on (maybe
it was just the size?). Going round sharpish corners on the taxi to the
stand felt like the aircraft was pivoting around the nose wheel ...

I live under one of the holidng points for one of the UK's major
airports and so we have a lot of planes overhead sometimes. Just
occasionally a thin stream of something can be seen coming out of the
back of one.

The Reds just flew over Newbury in formation.
Paul

Anybody see the plane towing a Persil banner over N. London on Sunday? I've
seen these everywhere in the world, but never seen one here, and can't
belive they let it tow a banner across the heavily used used helicopter
route above my house, and just below the traffic heading into ...

Off to get my initial Class 1 on 13th September at the CAA in Gatwick - the
paperwork says I shouldn't drive as they *might* use eye-drops as part of
the eye test which cause blurred vision that lasts for up to 12 hours.
They then go on to give you driving and parking directions, ...

Re-Validation of PPL SEP Rating:
LASORS (2003) refers to AIC 127/1999 which specifically says "The
flight may be replaced by any other proficiency check or skill test
for a class or type rating or by a flight test for an IMC rating".

A friend just sent me this link:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/051638/L/
Paul

Just read that they put out some proposals along these lines.
Does anyone have any idea what the rates would be?
I understand (not flying a plane over 2000kg) that the UK rate is set
by the CAA and Eurocontrol collect it on the CAA's behalf.

A question has come up at work which I hope someone here can help me with.
What type of aircraft would be needed to fly 1 ton of freight from Surrey to
Cork and what licence would the pilot need?
What would such an aircraft cost to buy used?