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Sligo would be excellent, very GA friendly and fantastic scenery.

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Sligo has the SAR helicopter to keep its doors open, Galway unfortunately does not.

I hope that Galway Airport will remain in existence, but its is not looking too good, unless maybe a buyer is found.

I think RTE's Nationwide are to cover it next Wednesday.

I really hope that they (whoever they are) can keep Weston open.
Real shame if anything happened to it.

"My concern here is very basic : a MAYDAY call, as I understand it, mandates the scrambling of very expensive SAR equipment and I find it very difficult to justify this as an opening gambit for each and every (let us say) engine-stop " Don't let the cost concern stop you from calling out "Mayday", t...

The aircraft is believed to have been enroute from Haverfordwest to the SAAC airfield at Taghmon, Co.Wexford.

The Rosslare lifeboat was due to tow the wreckage to Carn, near Carnsore point this evening.

Yes, many remembered, there was a well attended memorial service today from the Monument at the Prom. in Tramore to the 248 crash site marked by the wooden cross. Many of the old gang from Air Corps were there, CHC/Irish Coast Guard's S61N, EI-SAR, did a fly past at 3 pm. The memorial service was in...

Am I correct in saying that Kilkenny had radio activated runway lights in the not too distance past ?

KenDoyle, you should contact your local City/County Council I am sure that have a air pollution monitoring station. They would be able to advise you if there were abnormal levels of anything "dodgy" on the day in question. In the meantime the contrail issue has been explained here. Aircraf...

This was discussed on Gerry Ryan's programme today on 2FM. Won't comment on what I thought of the guys that rang in first The level of high level traffic over Dublin suggests that the North Atlantic tracks brought alot of the traffic in over the vicinity of Dublin VOR. The traffic going North/South ...

"That's not correct, you can get FIS without filing a flightplan".

That's what I said, you can, but it is not 100%, a controller in Shannon told me that.

Have to agree with Mr Crow, to be fully correct, if you are going to seek a flight information service from Shannon, the AIP says that that you shall submit a flight plan for any flight that will be provided with an ATC service. This flight plan must be submitted prior to operating. The flight infor...

Yes, have a look at the Irish AIP (online from IAA website) airports with Controlled airspace around them have a visual chart that shows the hold pattern and also a brief radio fail procedure.