Congratulations to one and all, and the very best of luck to you in your future careers. It is always great to see such investment and sacrifice paying off. Well done.

Damien.

My nomination is Kernan Valley in Tandragee Co. Armagh. One way, narrower than Letterkenny, two sets of high tension pylons , up hill and tight as well. Ticks most boxes. On the approach you will be higher than the first set of pylons, but your still very conscious of their position. approaching the...

28th sounds good to me too, I'm based in Granard , just a 10 minute flight from Abbetshrule, so I will probably fly down to Cork or out to Belmullet first just so as I can pretend it was a journey.

Damien.

Please don't pick the bloody one week I can't make. I'll be in Galway on my friends stag on the 31st. It probably does'nt matter anyway. my wife is populating my calender also, the following weekend is Cork to see her friends. She always has a nack of organising things when the weather is perfect, a...

Thats a great idea and I am definately in also. Unfotunately it's hard to plan with our unreliable long term forecasts. But a flyin/meetup could be called at short notice the Wednesday or Thursday before a weekend.

I'd love to take part.

Damien.

With the end of 2008 now approaching I decided to have a look through my log book, and count the hours back from January 2008. Altogether everyone will nodoubt agree that 2008 was a brutal year. The weather was crap, I mean really really crap, unfortunately it still is, even through the recent spell...

The safety evening is being organised by the NMAI as an NMAI event, and there will be 100 places available. Tickets will be sold firstly to NMAI members, any tickets left over will then be available for everyone else in the GA community. Again this is not to be seen as a political event, it is purel...

Mondays were the only days which the representative could come over for the Seminar, and he was only free on three particular dates. The 16th of March would mean that at least if people have to travel for the event, they will have a lie in the following day as it is a bank holiday.

Does it really mater who does it? I don't want this to look like a them and us thing. The night is being organised for members of the NMAI and an open invitation to anyone who flies an airplane in this country, whether big or small. The night is purely educational, not political. There are hundreds ...

Well you are all a lot stronger than me, I would'nt be able for that, I think I would have given up or gone foreign if it were me. I was lucky, I got my licence in 4 months during the winter, just 4 years ago here in Ireland. I think that was the last good spell of weather. I lost very few days of t...

I would usually call an Airport or an Aerodrome a licensed facility. After that it's really up to the owners of the unlicensed airfields. Most are called Airfields any way , whether or not there is tarmac. A strip is usually just that, a strip of grass cut out of a field, farmstrip is the same and t...

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Well done, that is a great service, every airfiled should have something similar. I think the best weather station I have ever seen is one at a small grass airstrip in Yorkshire called Eddsfield. It came in very handy a few times last year when a group of us toured around the Yorkshire area. You can...

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It's great that you got sorted out, I found Onrisk very personable and easy to deal with. It's hard paying a premium now knowing that another crap winter is on the way, summer was'nt much different this year. Loved seeing your plane last saturday, it's a cracker.

Damien.