Aviation Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / September 2005

Not sure if able to post pictures so will just do the link
http://www.warbirdz.net/largepic.php?ID=6737
http://www.qvag.org.au/

I hope you don't mind me posting here but I thought I would take this
opportunity to tell you about a new flying website aimed at both
student and qualified PPL's. I am the person who runs the website. I
originally started it to keep my motivation in flying while I was a

Rate your FBO or add it if it's not in the database.
http://aviationist.com/co.php

I'm looking for my first PC based flight planning software package.
Need to be VFR and IFR, online updates AND with a demo/trial version.
Oh, and cheap.
What do you guys recommend

Which of these Flight planing software Jeppesen Flight Star or Navbox is
most suitable for Sweden and Northern Europe?
Peter Colins

I saw a Puma in Tigerstripes livery today at EGNX (east mids).  Anyone tell
me WHY this military chopper is in this livery?
David

There's a new series on the Discovery Wings Satellite channel called
"Flying Heavy Metal".
It is looking at the history of passenger jet aircraft. The first
episode looks at the history of the Boeing 707.

Might sound a bit daft but sometimes when listening to aircraft on the
radio, there seems to be a lot of background noise over the pilots talking.
Examples (off the top of my head) are KLM's Fokker 100's (Fokker 70's also)
and Boeing 737-200's (Ryanair's). The 737's sound like a ...

First as an aside, there was the question of getting onto the airfield.
There were four of us in the car, 3 adults, 1 child. The ticket seller
insisted that this did not qualify for the "car up to 5 people" tariff
as there were only 4 people, not 5, and we would have to pay at

A Piper Tomahawk flew down Littlehampton beach this afternoon, almost
(but not quite with my eyes) low enough to read its registration. I took
a photo, and based on the length being 22 feet, it must have been about
300 feet above the sand. Is there a minimum legal height over the ...

The sky was overcast and low. But how low ?
The planes taking off vanished in the sky after 6-8 seconds.
Anyone.
Nic

Anyone else find it a very cautious display ?  Relatively high and from
where I was standing, quite some distance from the seating arena.
At the opposite end of caution I will never look at a helicopter again
with the same disdain after the Chinook was thrown around like nothing

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I don't know if this is the appropriate group to made this query, but
here goes;
My uncle was a bit of a tearaway, he was a pilot in the RAF as a young
man and had an accident in which an aircraft was destroyed, and he was