Important info for operators of Irish amateur-built permit types: The Director of Civil Aviation Safety in France has issued a decree allowing Irish amateur-built aircraft with a full Flight Permit to fly in France without having to get prior permission :D (the previous requirement for which involve...

A group is forming to arrange a fly-out trip to northern France over the weekend of 14-15 April (the weekend after Easter), 2 nights away - weather permitting. Either Friday-Sunday or Saturday-Monday. This is designed especially to encourage those pilots who may not have done this sort of thing befo...

Seat has been filled!

Two Vans RV's are planning to fly to or towards Italy next week, due to a change of plan by one of the participants there is a spare seat available. Qualified pilot preferred. This trip will start on Wednesday and take 4-5 days.

Please pm or email if you are interested........

Bluebeard

Black tie?

Apart from the based pilots not too many visitors have been using the catering facilities at Newcastle, not quite the "$100 hamburger", but good sandwiches, tea/coffee and some all-too-tempting cake has been available at Newcastle on Sats/Suns from 10 am to 5.30 pm. Somewhere to go for lun...

Yes Kevin could we have a non-Ipad version e.g. Android as suggested above would be great?
Saves weight in the cockpit!

That's good, jonkil, thanks. Looking at the map, Inishbofin and Cleggan are still sitting there uselessly, does anyone know whether any vote-hungry candidate might have promised to get them opened? It's even worse than some of the West of Scotland madness, to have two little airports that closed bef...

A Garmin-uploadable waypoints database would be great, along with a pdf version. I appreciate this could however result in a wider distribution than Kevin might intend .......

Kevin, could you change the indexing arrangement, I never managed to get the hang of it!
Also the airfield marked on the map as 2C3 does not seem to exist?
Great work.

A1043/10 - TRIGGER NOTAM AIRAC AMENDMENT NR 008/10 EFFECTIVE DATE 29 JUL 2010
INCLUSION OF EGLINTON STUD IN SHANNON CTA. 29 JUL 00:01 2010 UNTIL 12 AUG 23:59

The prowess of some of those Northern guys knows no bounds!

Various flyers from Ireland are planning to go to the RSA rally in July, preliminary plans involve assembling at Chaveney (west of Paris) on 15 July. Currently there are at least 5 interested aircraft. The RSA has adopted St Yan (north of Lyon) as an intended permanent home for the rally, which was ...

I recently did a little test with Maxol petrol advertised as having 5% ethanol, and Esso regular unleaded. First I carefully did the test-tube procedure, adding petrol to about 10% water and shaking, then seeing whether the interface between the water and the petrol moved. Neither Maxol nor Esso tes...

A small single engine swept wing jet passed this way last week, on long finals for runway 29 at Baldonnel. Are we being invaded? Defence Forces equipment upgrade?

I have heard reports of UK NPPL holders writing to the DGAC in France (CAA/IAA equilivant in France) and getting written permission from them to fly in French airspace Yes I know of at least one UK NPPL holder who got permission from the DGAC to visit France. My question was in essence whether the ...