FlyingInIreland

It is amazing how, sometimes, a little research brings forth an unexpected answer The UK position is set out at http://www.nationalprivatepilotslicence.co.uk/New/FAQ.htm Q What do I need to do to fly microlights on my light aircraft (SEP) licence? A You may fly microlights without any further traini...

This is a very, very difficult discussion because one solution cannot be devised to suit everyone The 'Light' end of the spectrum - say stall <45kt - needs very little aerodrome assistance - the I/R Multi trainer needs a lot more At the 'Light' end what is nowadays the risk of a fire on the field? W...

But it is so, so, simple If something happens to call into question something in the licensing standard at an ICAO Annex 14 Licensed field in Ireland,the matter is deflected to ICAO If something of this nature happens at an unlicensed field being used under an IAA relief-from-ICAO scheme then the bu...

A very healthy proportion of fields are potential airfields : you only have to walk them, and maybe drive the car along at 40 m.p.h, to see if you can safely use them as an aerodrome The idea of a grass runway only arises when you would like to invite your tricycle friends to fly in, or maybe get a ...

Remember that the incentive to give tricycle gear and yokes - as a opposed to sticks - to small aircraft was simply to make them more saleable to the motoring population. The great plus about the taildragger as a trainer is verh simply that it 'puts manners on ye' No amount of coaching by an instruc...

If there were enough tail-draggers around so that everyone could be trained to First Solo in such an one how much more complete and comprehensive and less costly would be our training. Conversions later to nosegearare simple as the taildragger isn't required to do anything which to him seems against...

Yes - Everyone who possibly can shoulld support this It could just be the tipping point that will eventually get, for everyone who does not need an ICAO Licence for the flying they do, a suitably focussed National PPL General Aviation tried very hard for this 10 years ago, under the auspices of the ...

This has been a most informative topic - and special credit to friend 'Pilot' who has produced the fruit of excellent research But I wonder is 'Nosedive' not very lucky indeed to have survived regulatory cremation Mother of all our Regulation, the Chigaco Convention (ICAO), has to be our focus for I...

How nice to hear But I wonder how recently is recently? I believe thaht in any timescale claiminf recency such a flight would have had to carry a clearance from Shannon - I forget which great leap forward made a clearance as well as a flightplan mandatory for VFF operation in a control zone - an I s...

I read this in New Zealand A wonderful and magnificent man - and, with his like-minded colleague, Terry Rown - a colossus who modernised Private Flying in Ireland by sheer example With much pride I remember, as an instructor, 49 years ago, sharing with Denis Geene the honour of attempting to get him...

God be with the times when we'd go out to Culmullen field on Chrismas Morning, harness up the Tiger Moth, (partly then the property of he who is now ATC Operations Manager), perform a few loops over Collinstown to show their Zone was free when abandoned - and return to Christmas Dinner They stopped ...

Instal a small ATIS device on Eglinton Field

This to broadcast continuously whether Stub has IFR traffic

Boradcast info good for 15 mins after receipt

Eglinton to handle grant of any stub clearances via R/T only

If stub down to 1,500 amsl, then not much room East of Newtown C

Best cheer

Maurice

Hello Whiskey Tango We shouldn’t be too far adrift in our thinking : I used to be Whiskey Romeo - licensed to prowl! I think one’s attitude to Forced Landings derives muchly from what was inculcated at training. We were never encouraged to control approaches by the use of power until CPL/IR stage It...

"Information only" sounds a pretty good idea" But I don't think it has ever been promulgated 'Request Radar advisories - I think has But I have heard there are some difficulties -simple for this from Doc 4444 What abouit the non-Radio batallions - they are not stupid, just simple - if they are no lo...

As someone who spent some years of his flying life toodling round Western Europe in aircraft which didn't even have electrics, let alone COMs - VHF R/T hadn't come to the aeronautical mobie servce and H/F morse was impractical in a light aircraft - I am immensely heartened by 501 telling me that his...