Glider flies across four nations in one flight
On 18 March 2025 an Arcus M self-launching motor glider, flown by Chris Gill, Manager and Chief Flying Instructor at Denbigh Gliding and Geoff Burtenshaw from the Southdown Gliding Club, made an epic journey flying across the four nations of Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland and England, in a flight lasting nearly nine hours, covering a distance of 382 miles and attaining a height gain to 19,000 ft over the Eryri (Snowdonia) National...
SkyDemon adds frequency selector
Flight planning and navigation software specialist SkyDemon announced a new add-on at AERO 2025 today – a Bluetooth link to compatible aircraft radios allowing frequencies to be selected via Skydemon’s App. As Skydemon’s Rob Hart explains, the feature will allow Skydemon users to select a radio frequency from their tablet screen which will automatically be entered into an aircraft radio’s active or standby frequency list. The...
Elixir Aircraft soaring high at AERO 2025
The formal transfer of Egnatia Aviation’s first Elixir flight trainer took place this morning at AERO 2025. Egnatia’s CEO Dimitris Lymperakis joined Cyril Champenois, Elixir Aircraft’s co-founder and director of sales & marketing, for the formal handover of the first of 12 trainers ordered by the Greek flight training academy. “We’re delighted to take delivery of our first Elixir at the Aero Friedrichshafen air show....
AERO 2025 opens this week
Europe’s largest General Aviation trade show, AERO 2025, opens tomorrow at Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. Spanning 14 halls, housing 756 exhibitors from 38 countries, the annual show is Europe’s largest GA event, encompassing everything from short-mission drones to globe-trotting business jets. FTN will be roaming the halls over the next couple of days to report on what’s hot in the GA industry today,...
Private pilot licensing and training simplification project enters final consultation phase
The final consultation phase of the CAA’s substantial project to amend UK private pilot licensing and training has commenced today with the publication of AMC and GM documentation. The Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM) provide the detail of the proposed changes, which are being enacted to deliver a more simplified and cohesive training platform for private pilots following Brexit. After having left the EU...
