Achtung Mobile Phone: Loose Objects
I was several hours into a tail-wheel conversion course with my instructor at my flying club. During taxi to the runway hold point we heard a ‘thump’ in the aircraft. My mobile phone had fallen out of my back pocket and onto the floor space at the instructor’s feet (the seating configuration of this aircraft type means the occupants sit in front/behind each other rather than side by side). The instructor picked up...
Applications now open for BWPA Spring Scholarships 2018
The British Women Pilots Association has announced that applications are open for their 2018 Spring Scholarships and Membership Bursaries. This year the BWPA are awarding up to five scholarships and two bursaries. For the Spring Scholarships, all applicants must be members of the BWPA (full or associate) at the time of application and at selection of winners during May 2018. For the Membership Bursaries, priority will be given to...
A little support for the journey
If you were contemplating a non-stop flight to Australia who or what would you take for support? Your partner or an entertaining companion? A couple of good books? A pre-loaded ‘box set’ of your favourite TV series? One of those inflatable neck supports? Or maybe a duck. For a number of years now, airline passengers in the USA have been entitled to travel with an ‘Emotional Support Animal’ to help them with the trauma of domestic...
APPG makes progress on airfield protection
The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for General Aviation has claimed an early win in its battle to protect GA airfields from housing development, announcing that a safeguarding measure has been included in the latest draft version of the UK Government’s National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). However, while the APGG has welcomed the announcement, chairman Grant Shapps MP has said that the Group still harbours concerns over GA...
General Aviation questions for Parliament
FTN has spoken to a number of prominent General Aviation experts who are inviting the GA community to suggest questions to be asked in Parliament on matters relating to the concerns of GA. These experts believe that asking Parliamentarians to table Written Parliamentary Questions is an important way of raising awareness of issues affecting GA in Parliament and in the Government, as well as getting answers directly from Minsters. Once...
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