General Aviation Infrastructure Network launched
A new national Community Interest Company (CIC), whose mission is to ensure the survival of a minimum viable strategic network of UK General Aviation airfields, has been set-up under the name of the General Aviation Infrastructure Network (GAIN). GAIN also seeks to ensure that airfields identified as part of this network are guaranteed protection from development and change of use and also aims to help vulnerable UK General Aviation...
AIR BP open new UK refuelling location
Air BP has bolstered its presence in the Southeast of England with the addition of a new location at Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey (EGKR). With immediate effect, Air BP will be the sole fuel provider of Jet A-1, AL48 and Avgas at the aerodrome. Redhill has training, business aviation and rotary activity, the latter of which accounts for some 80% of its traffic. The airport has recently installed a new fuel depot in order to meet the...
The Mike Langley Foundation
A fuller appreciation of our friend and colleague appears elsewhere in this issue of FTN. Suffice to say that, predictably, there was standing room only at the service to celebrate Mike’s life and to say goodbye. It was also only fitting that there was as much laughter as tears on the day and many examples of Mike’s legendary wit and sense of fun were relived amongst his friends. One of Mike’s legacies is the ‘Mike Langley Foundation’...
UK CAA launches Skyway Code
The UK CAA has launched its much anticipated ‘Skyway Code’ – intended to be an aeronautical equivalent of road user’s Highway Code. The idea of the Skyway Code was first mooted within the CAA up to 10 years ago, with a remit to condense the thousands of pages of aeronautical legislation into a ‘pocket-sized’ guide to the principle rules and regulations that govern General Aviation flying in the UK. The CAA say that the primary focus...
Wg Cdr Mike Langley (Rtd.)(Rtd.)(Rtd.)(Rtd.)(Rtd.)
It was 2011 when I attended my first Mike Langley retirement party. The festive farewell took place at a restaurant in Woodstock, a couple of miles from his office at Oxford Airport, where he’d just retired as Commercial Director for Oxford Aviation Academy. Mike Langley retirement parties were always enormous fun and, as befitted the generosity of the man, numerous… But maybe I’m getting ahead of myself. Mike was born on February 15,...
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