I flew to Welshpool on Saturday 20th April. My route was via BNN to HEN and then to Church Stretton and direct to Welshpool.
In the region of HEN there is a notified drone area of surface to 1150 feet and another to the south of that of surface to 1300 feet. As I was in that area on my return to Lydd at around 2,300 feet I saw a drone above us. I dread to think the damage it would have done had we hit it. I informed Farnborough at the time but there’s very little that can be done to find out who was flying it.
My reason for posting is to let other pilots know about the added risks we seem to be facing.
From here
Just got this from the airport
So they want 48hr PN, not 8hr PN which the AIP states
Well, they obviously don’t care if one notifies and doesn’t arrive, so one may as well do that.
I am thinking of going to Basle LFSB in a PA28. I can see the landing fee is Euro 40 but handling seems expensive. The information that I found on this forum is a few years old.
Does anybody have any hints who is the cheapest to handle at Basle or can one go to the Aero Club and self handle? Also people are saying that Mulhouse–Habsheim LFGB is only 10 minutes away by car so this could be a good idea. Is it safe to park there for 2 weeks?
Any help welcome 
Following the launch of Pilot Medical Declarations (PMD) in October 2016, 14,000 PMDs have been submitted.
A post implementation internal review of the PMD process concluded that the PMD process needed to be examined and potentially amended.
In addition, feedback received from the General Aviation (GA) community from the consultation on UK GA opportunities for change now that the UK has left EASA included a suggested review of the PMD process to enhance user experience and identify opportunities in the context of the simplification and rationalisation of GA flight crew licensing.
Pilot_Medical_Declaration_Consultation_CAP2408_pdf
They are saying 4% of pilots with the PMD are not entitled to it so they want to review it. I think this is actually an extremely good figure and would expect to find way more people not entitled to a Class 1, on the grounds of non-declaration of a relevant condition 
Also the CAA should be motivated by
Here is your chance to respond to their survey.
Should one expect acknowledgement from HMRC or Police with email filed forms?
It seems the only point is if you want to achieve ADS-B OUT, don’t need ADS-B IN (or achieve that via another route) and already have a compatible WAAS GPS.
But then I wonder what the GTX335 brings you. This gives you ADS-B OUT, also no ADS-B IN, and it has an internal WAAS GPS option (which is also available as an output).
Perhaps the ES upgrade costs less than a GTX335 installation? Not on the basis of figures I have seen.
One thing that I would have like to have seen come out of all this euro harmonization is a common VFR map and I’m sure this would improve safety and reduce infringements as well.
I’ve always thought that the UK CAA maps are pretty good and i’m also a big fan of FAA maps. I especially like the fact that you can get a 1:250 000 TMA maps as well. Wouldn’t that be handy for the London TMA?
I’ve seen that transair have produced a 1:100 000 map that covers the whole of the UK is this the same as the Jean Bossy map that covers France?
I should add as an instructor I never fly off the creases of the map anyway but I do dream about doing an IMC course thats takes us to some cheap approaches in france.
The map I currently have is out of date anyway but I do fly with a digital map which is upto date.
It seems the weather gods are smiling upon us :-) Currently, for the upcoming Sunday, there’s forecasted to be light cloud cover without precipitation, with temperatures a…
I’m considering purchasing a piper Cherokee aircraft that was registered G when purchased by the current owner back in October ‘21. It was UK VAT paid at that time. The owner then ex…
Then you can buy raster charts if you want national maps. I use the UK 500k ones.
Sounds unbeatable to me… oh no, another place I have to fly to 🙈
