Spitfire flew over Stillorgan today at 1229, heading toward Baldonnel.

Several types of overview-type forecast data (3 days) can be found on the University of Basel website
http://pages.unibas.ch/geo/mcr/3d/meteo/

See also pictorial forecast representations at
http://www.pilotfriend.com/jump_to_fram ... _frame.htm

Flying at rather low level - due to wx - near Frankfurt recently Langen Info called us: "2 fast military aircraft in your 6 o'clock".

Fishtailing and a degree of - ah - pucker is the only useful reaction!!

A few years ago Galway attempted to charge VFR traffic just for passing through their zone. They seemed to have given this up, and there was a view at the time that it was illegal.

The website m gives details of the forthcoming flight by Steve Fossett in the Vimy replica. The Vimy is today(Saturday) at Rockcliffe airport, Ottawa, and is being moved to Gatineau where there's a longer runway, to fuel up before flying to Newfoundland. Maybe they'll try the crossing this week, wit...

I see the pilot got blown back onto the wreckage, I hope he was OK, it would be really bad luck to eject successfully and be injured by being blown back onto a fire.

Hum, I hope your tales of derring-do with exciting machinery will be collected into book form!

Last summer I dropped into St Cyr (LFPZ) for lunch, this is just a few hundred metres from the gardens of the Palace of Versaille. Nice little grass field, excellent lunch!

Well, I just keep my log in a spreadsheet. Any fields I like, any size I like, hours, minutes, fractions, currency, types, name of passenger, comments on wx, any info at alll ....... All regularly backed up with the rest of my stuff. Paper log only kept for legal reqmt. Hard to improve on spreadshee...

At altitude 10k ft and 10:1 glide ratio you have a glideable situation for 38 miles of the crossing. That's 63% of a sixty-mile sea crossing.

At 15k ft you have glideability for 57 miles (95%).

Thats why I want to get oxygen.

What an awful website, Abbeyshrule Airshow. Glitzy front page and almost nothing else.

Repeating a question above, can we fly into it? Who can we ask this? Do we then have to buy tickets?

Are there details about Saturday's fly in anywhere?

Nothing but questions.

Lionel, you dont need to change your licence! If you fly a G-reg around Europe, you won't have a problem. I have checked the status of flying G on an FAA licence (VFR) in many European countries. The answers have all been to the effect of either (i) it's OK, or (ii) its OK with us if it's OK under U...

Lionel:" I am not opposed to having a JAA/JAR licence, in fact I would like to have one, it would make international trips in EI reg aircraft a bit easier, but I don't see the point at the moment. " I understand there maybe a problem flying EI aircraft abroad on an FAA licence, is this what you refe...

If you have the money - and it seems you do - and the inclination, you'd be mad NOT to consider buying. Consider where you are going to keep your aircraft? Hangarage is expensive, and aircraft do not improve if kept outside. Would you be able to do regular maintance items yourself, or do you dislike...

Why is there a Notam about this? Maybe someone has the background ....

So, Lionel, you seem to confirm that my Class 2 FAA medical remains Class 2 for 2 years. In its second year it cannot be used in the USA except for private flying. It does seem that the IAA requirement for a Class 2 medical (for private flying) is satisfied for the full 2 years life of the FAA Class...