Aviation Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / December 2004

Is there a UK and France airfield and farm strip directory available on the
web? I was looking for information (eg: runways, toda, facilities,
identifyer, frequencies) . Any infor appreciated.
Regards

Just abit of fun. Speakers on, click
here...http://www.spitcrazy.com/spitsound.htm
David

Yesterday Dec 20 I was in Oxford Street, Central London, and saw overhead a
single engined Cessna towing a banner, altitude about 1500ft. A rare signt -
was it an illegal intursion or am I missing something when I never fly mine
over London - built up areas and all that?

I've often wondered on this.
In normal flight pilots on big jets don't use the rudder pedals a lot.
Different story when an engine failure takes place.
Is the rudder coupled to the ailerons to give balanced turns in normal

Merry Christmas everyone!
Hope you're having a white Christmas like we are in Wales!
Paul

I'm looking for any recommendations or comments about hiring C152-182s in some of the airports around the Orlando area. Specifically:
Lakeland Municipal,
Winter Haven Gilbert,
Lake Wales,

Blimey, it's quiet 'round here.  Even my email has been dead over the last  
few days.
Anyone fancy joining me to find the sun on Sunday?

The historic Helsinki-Malmi Airport in Finland (EFHF) is in trouble.
Local decision-makers are making every effort to close down the unique
old airport and to turn it into a suburb. Democracy-wise, their
methods are not far from what was done to Meigs Field in Chicago.

Anybody catch the news about the Boeing engine problem?
It seems they repainted a taxiway at King field Seattle, where they were
doing handover test flights with customers on 737's and the last 757. The
new paint included tiny reflective glass beads, and they found them in ten

For the last good few hours I've been searching for the web (including the
JAA and CAA sites) for the list of privileges of a PPL-A licence - so far
no joy. In particular, I wanted to find out the limitats of aeroplanes
(weight, number of passengers, etc) that can be flown by a JAA ...

Why was I approached by a nice cabin crew lady recently on a bmi baby flight
and told that it was illegal to video from the window?
Never happened before in many hours of taking pics from window seat.
I emailed bmibaby but they don't reply.

was on BA flight yesterday from Gatwick to Aberdeen on a Boeing
737-400.The plane was only half full,some passengers had asked if they
could move to seats down the front.
We were told that by the cabin crew this wasn't possible

EASA has now formulated its opinion and draft regulation in response to
comments on NPA 02/2004, about regulation of pilot licensing, air operations
and third country aircraft. The documents are available at:
http://www.easa.eu.int/opinions_en.html

Anybody seen the Concorde parked at Heathrow? It's parked on a taxiway, and
looks very close to the southernmost runway. It seems an odd place to park
it, but I was confused as I thought all of them had gone off to die
somewhere else? Is this being left as a monument?

This was allegedly posted very briefly on the McDonnell-Douglas Website by
an employee there who obviously has a sense of humour. The company, of
course, does not have a sense of humour, and made the web department take it
down immediately.