A little ‘bump’ as the restrictions start Monday 12th. I’ve also put up a direct link on FlyOnTrack hot news to the index to all the AICs about restrictions, as well as the 2 direct ones for RIAT and Farnborough

I’ve now added a pamphlet about D&D into both the hot news item and the links page on flyontrack – http://flyontrack.co.uk/content/links.asp -first subsection.

I’ve amended the pdf newsletter referenced above to (temporarily) remove the quoted lat/long for the London City VRPs. (They are still there in VOR/DME form). Rob Hill (BMAA) was on the ball and wondered why they were in either Somerset or Holland – leading zero missing, he deduced. Anyway, they are being re-checked and will be re-issued in the pdf. They are correct in ‘official documents’ like the AIP but were wrong from this morning in this pdf from when they were ‘put up’ around 11:00 til about 14:25 UTC. When the lat/longs for the London VRPs re-appear, they will be correct, for the moment they just say ‘being checked’

ps: ‘Thanks Rob’

One idea I’m pushing to become ‘the norm’ is to get more value out of the 2-yearly meeting with an instructor.

Here http://www.higherplane.flyer.co.uk/bfr-ground.pdf is my current menu of ‘hot topics’ that I now show to anyone coming for a 2-yearly instructor flight. Some items will not be relevant to that pilot, some will already be known, but it’s a trigger mechanism for individual pilots to say that they want to know more about items on it.

The list is also up on the pilot’s noticeboard at my airfield so pilots do not actually have to wait two years to find out about something, it can trigger them to come for a briefing at any time, but they will definitely get the opportunity every two years.

For example at an strut talk I was giving I met a pilot whose ‘strip’ is under an ILS at a major airfield where a ‘listening squawk’ is being trialed. He hadn’t heard of the concept before but thought it a great idea. My concern was that these sort of things are not being discussed as part of the 2 yearly session with an instructor, which was seen as just a flight when it could be so much more. Not everyone follows forums or has time to read magazines

BUMP! (ends tonight)

Well three winners – quite a diverse group – one spamcan/Hinton Lark BWPA member, one Jabiru BMAA member with 278 ‘strips’/airfields in the book and one with his first licence issue paperwork sitting in the CAA right now! Over 50 entries, so approx a 1 in 18 chance of being a winner. – see http://www.flyontrack.co.uk – if you want to see names.

I would look up when the next chart issue happens (and next competition) but the CAA website is down!

ALSO: the list of known (at this time) restrictions for the Summer (red arrows, duxford, old warden) on the same site has been updated – look for the ‘eyes’.

(edditt woz too korekt speling)

Irv. The competition is a brilliant idea.

Thanks – If this one goes well, the competition for a half-million Southern will open as this one closes, as it is due out Mid March. (oh no, 😮 more Southern bias! I must look up when the others come out – let me think, where can I do that? – oh yes, it’s the sort of thing I’d find on Flyontrack links page! 😉

And with permission of the CAA, the infringement investigation stats for 2003 – 2006 are now available on flyontrack – see the ‘frowning face’ in hotnews on:
http://www.flyontrack.co.uk