I’m trying to decide the same thing. I’m leaning towards Woodchurch — as y11f says, there’s only one display there but there’s many at Old Warden.

R! What time will you be at Wolverhampton on Saturday?

Moggy — yes, there is a sanity test in the medical. If you fail the sanity test, you pass the medical. That’s what the voices said anyway.

EN830 — the chap in the middle on the right hand side of your photo is Yakrider.

M

You haven’t got anything to do with Janie, have you (not that you would admit to it publicly, I guess – who would??!!)??!! 😀

I fear I’ve already been outed 😉

The RAF have various colour codes that categorise the weather conditions. If you Google for ‘RAF colour codes’ that’ll give you a couple of pages listing them. Blue is 8km vis and no cloud below 2500ft.

AvBrief have a NOTAM service, but you do have to pay to access that. Although that gives you access to all their other services as well.

I use the NATS one, and I don’t find it at all bad to be honest. Performance-wise it’s a lot better than it used to be. As I’m never sure what to use as a a good buffer zone around my route I tend to go for a Route Briefing, on the grounds that I’d rather have too much information than not enough. I’ll then read it through and decide what’s worth noting. I find it’s usually fairly obvious in the first couple of lines of a NOTAM whether or not it’s relevant to me. Plus there’s the occasional gem in there!

Oh no … it’s 11:20 and I’m still at work (though obviously not working right this minute 🙂 )

What’s the collective’s opinion on US flight training? It seems good value but there must be a catch.

The catch, if you can call it that, is that when you get back to the UK you have to learn how to deal with our weather, with our radio procedures and with airspace that’s on the whole managed quite differently to the US. None of that is insurmountable though.

The other thing is that you tend to have to pay up front. Allied to that is the risk that the flying school goes pop, taking your money with you. Unfortunately this has happened to a lot of them, either through malice or poor management. The way out of that one is to ask around and find schools that people have used before. I can’t give any recommendations there, I’m afraid — I did my PPL over here!