I came across an old article from 2000 where apparently the government had approved funding for building an airstrip on Tory Island. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/airstrip-dream-come-true-for-tory-island-1.280000 Obviously this never went ahead, but I can't find anything in the press about it bein...

I'm happy to meetup for a Team/Zoom call. We don't have a lot of time, but I'm happy to do so. I also agree with the idea of a 'joint response' but think it's also important that we make our individual responses too. One issue that is in the IAA's favour is that so few pilots responded initially. Th...

I heard a representative of the IAA (Regulator) was telling people not to speak out of turn, making them mute and virtually put their "hand up" if they wanted to speak. If this is true, they are only reinforcing our belief that what we say doesn't really matter! I should say that I think ...

Any explanation on the square zones other than "it's to protect IFPs Yes! But you won't believe what the explaination was! (Well maybe you will!) Mark asked what the justification was for expanding the circles into squares. The answer, very clearly was given as "The GA community said that...

My understanding is that if we are departing Ireland going to a non-EU airport, or coming into Ireland from a non-EU airport, that we need to use a full time customs airport. ie Dublin, Cork or Shannon. The ease of movement that we normally enjoy is only for EU airports, where customs controls are n...

That's great. Thanks Mark!

Is there an up to date list somewhere of flyins in Ireland this year?

Any links that I've had for such things seem to be gone now.

Thanks!

Hi Martins, First of all let's talk about the Irish side. There is a document that many call a GAR in circulation in Ireland. But your exact requirements for a departure from Ireland to another country or for your return from another country depends entirely on the airport that you are departing fro...

I wonder where the need comes from? There is hardly much commerical traffic going around at 5000-7500? I do sometimes fly at such altitudes. Lowering it wouldn't be such a major problem if access is easy to get. But if it just becomes an increased vectoring space for regionals, with no access becaus...

Feck all this Winter. A hour last month.

It was last October since I did a decent trip.

As some of you may know, I'm part of the beta crew with PocketFMS who make the EasyVFR app . Today we released version 3.9 which has a features that may be of particular interest to us Irish pilots. Some of you are probably aware of a new open source hardware called PilotAware . It runs off a Raspbe...

Indeed, a big step forward!

I feel a VFR flight between some of the regionals coming on

Unfortunately I don't think that this is a new problem. I did my exams in 2001, and remember similar problems. I remember one particular problem in the navigation exam. It asked to measure the true track between two airports, and give various answers. The precise answer wasn't there, but there was p...

I use EasyVFR by PocketFMS on my iPad. http://www.pocketfms.com/easyvfr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Perfect coverage of Ireland, and the Frequent Flyer Membership includes unlimited electronic flight plan filing. Flight plans are instantly transmitted to into the ATC sys...

That's sad to hear Mark.

Thanks for all the wonderful articles over the years, and I wish you guys the best of luck with whatever you decide to do next.