Aviation Forum / Country Specific / UK Group / January 2006

I am looking to buy an aircraft to fly non stop from London say out of
Northolt or Denham to Galway in the Republic Of Ireland.  It should be
suitable for a PPL piot with instrument, night and nav ratings and take
three passengers.  Any recommendations for an entry level aircraft of ...

My flying instructors rating.
Should be interesting.
I'll let you know how it goes...assuming anyone gives a fig of course!
David

Being a latent aero anorak I found this interesting:
1.    Launch Google Earth (if you don't know what I'm on about go to
http://earth.google.com/, download it and install it).
2.    Plug in the coordinates 52 20 10.87 N 0 11 43.34 W and zoom in.

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If I understand correctly, the default below FL115 is Class G, and
Class D at and above that.
Is that correct?
On a recent flight I requested FL105 (on one of the "airways", under

Is it just my impression or is this year a bad year:
Canada (very lucky)
Greece
Italy/Sicily

Correct me if I'm wrong, but when the Oil runs out we will lose Diesel
as well as Avgas? And unless some boffin at Jodrell Bank invents a
gadget that can convert mother in law's parsnip peelings into fuel etc.
shurely then that will be that?

Has anyone experience of Anglo-American Aviation in San Diego for JAA PPL
training?
Many thanks,
Paul

request suggestions for flightschools offering compact ab initio training
from ppl to atpl (for a non-EU-citizen).
thanks for help
regards

Aviation Folks - can I request the benefit of the group's experience?
After some years of inaction I finally decided to start my UK NPPL course
back in September this year.
Although things started out well, my initial enthusiasm has been tempered by

Does anybody know of anybody providing CAA 1:500000 / 1:250000 type
charts that can be loaded into a Garmin GPSMap 296?
The Atlantic map that is provided by Garmin is fine no doubt for those
in the airways but for VFR flights they are just not detailed

Has one ever been deployed in a real situation, as opposed to the documented
test deployment?
I'm interested also to know under what circumstances the manufacturer
recommends its deployment. Presumably a controlled forced landing is

Handy with a shovel to help bury threads, give yourself a little dream
time and imagine which aircraft you'd like to see flying again just once ?
Having flown in the following two as a snotty teenager I must suggest;
1. Bristol Britannia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4567856.stm
Nice one :-)