Jerry_Atrick

Noone seems to have heard anything, bur @red750 have provided the last confirmed sighting ;-)

I don't know and haven't heard of any special permit required for international travel to the UK. Best to contact the British consular services/embassy for details, It may be a requirement for stopover destinations.. will have to check with the airline or those countries' consular services. There is a legal requirement to self-isolate - you will have to tell the Border Force/immigration where you are self isolating and they may do spot checks (my guess is they won't). This will be a good read: Just as Air Travel Is Picking Up, U.K. Imposes a Quarantine My guess is most people will ignore it as the chances of a spot check will be low and even if they get issued a £1,000 fine, who is going to make them pay it? By the time you arrive, the self isolation requirement would likely my removed anyway, but even so, airlines are suing the government over it: Airlines Challenge U.K.’s Quarantine to Boost Travel Market BTW - many happy returns to your mum...

NPPL is National Private Pilots License. It has a lower level of training required and it is either a self declared medical or a GP checks you to the standard of a truck triver or something. Anyway, requirements are here: UK CAA Nation Private Pilot’s Licence (NPPL) – Ravenair and on reading it is basically a PPL with lower hours required (for the SSEA version). The alternate is the EASA issued LAPL (Light Aircraft Pilots Licence). Not sure of the training requirements - I think it is the same. But as I understand the medical required is virtually a class 2 medical.. So mamy don't bother with it (over 50, an EASA class 2 is required every year and every two years they require an ECG. When you have to do the ECG, it becomes an expensive undertaking). Either is required to fly "Permit" aircraft... i.e. LSAs.

CASA?

OK..back to the thread... Seems to have been a good outcome regardless.. Different people react differently.. And they react differently to the same situation... Any of these factors (and more) may play for any given flight which may cause a different reaction in the same pilot to the same circumstances: ‘IM SAFE’ Illness – are you suffering from any? Medication – are you taking any? Stress – are you suffering from any Alcohol – when did you last drink? Fatigue – are you well rested? Eating – have you eaten recently?

Menthol outlawed here now.. but... (never had a cancer stick in my life...)

Slightly off topic, but except for a jobsworth I have a run in each time I fly there, I love Lydd airport. Near Dungeness (a nuke plant I have done some work at), downwind leg over the channel, reasonable priced fuel that they take the VAT (GST) off for you before you cross to France.. and a couple of honeys on the desk... Food is great (have flown in for the Sunday Roast). The coastline in raw, too.. flat.. not spectacular.. but turquoise waters make it worth it. Unf, the art deco terminal building has been remodelled and is no longer art deco. The jobsworth always comes out of his office as I am waiting to pay the landing fee to tick me off for not wearing a high-vis. I always ask how did he know and he always responds he saw me walking across the apon without it. So my response is, if he could see me, it is not needed.. I know I am being fecetious.. it's their playground and they can set the rules as their (and their insurers) like, but if they are worried about us walking into a prop, they should make the props high-vis.. BTW, again off topic - do they require high vis in Aus?

I thought you quit, Cooperplace ;-)

Blimey - welcone back to the land of the living - glad to have you back! Take it easy squire - want a few more years out of you, yet. Not enough pommies on here, as it is!

I took at look at Red750's video in post #6 and noticed a lot of what looked like Bristells had their flaps down. Is it normal to park them with their flaps down?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm7Ljy1nFcQ:2

@Butch - really sorry mate.. but couldn't help myself (and a bit of pot calling kettle black looking at some of my typos over the years... but your post did evoke some great visions...) Nope - don't think they had any Beaufighters or any other of these: Bristol Built — Aerospace Bristol.. . I have to stop inviting Wolfie around.... Also, YBDG - great airfield... when I moved back to Aus in 2003 with the (then young) family, we lived in Bendigo for the first 6 months... The bloke I worked for was Bob Downing - had a vineyard in Heathote... Great bloke.

This place is a walking encyclopedia of aircraft...

Congratualtions, squire... Will you change your handle? ;-) Looks really nice... You'll have to keep us updated on your adventures!

G'day, Squire!

@OME - I respect your throughts on this as you worked as a true public servant and probably understand the inner working of the machinery of government than most on these fora (I don't know anyone else who worked in the PS on here, except me.. but not enough to have real experience of the place). But, where we have what is claimed to be a hostile regulator that regulates a very small segment of the population, it may be a case of be careful what you ask for. While the public servant arm of CASA may simply seek retribution, can you imagine what could happen when the pollies get involved? They will smell an opportunity - to win votes.. Sounds good, except that they are playing to an aviation (especially GA and recreational aviation) illiterate population. They will feed the main media (mainstream, social, etc) to push a barrow they may have.. .can you imagine it? Foeign pilots a danger to society - close city and large conrubation airports and send them to some dust bowl where they only people the can hurt are themselves... Too far fetched? Look at ASIC. Despite the howls of protestation from the aviation media and the representation made by various representative bodies, these only preach to the converted. Mr & Mrs Smith don't read them nor care.. they take wahtever media distribution to sppon feed them so they don't have to think. Both the incumbent minister and opposition will be looking for votes... do they really care about a tiny part of the population when they can sensationalise things and get the gullible population to fall for it.. .make it look like they have saved their lives yet again from some foreign and internal threat, etc etc. They wil lremind the population at election time to get the votes.

Bloomin nora.. getting envy here.. Anymore C182 owners here? Glassairs very sleek and sexy... If you google N20TB, and ignore the AAIB report on the belly landing as it wasn't me, that is my shareoplane until Friday. The cockpit photo you can see is outdated - the LHS (whcih you can hardly see) is still analogue; the RHS is digital and we have replaced most of the avionics.

I am in Somerset in the UK (South West). Up until Friday, I have a share in a TB20 near Farnborough. While I was working in London it worked out well (except it spent 6 months in for a bare metal respray, which was most frustrating), but as I live c. 200 miles from the airfield, it is not practical.. .So am looking for something.. With the COVID crisis, I am holding off purchasing; Love TB20s and TB21s, but there aren't too many on the market, and those that are are way overpriced and under-loved. C182s are a great and versatile machine and a lot of people don't realise they have slightly better numbers that SR20s. So, once the clouds over the economy clear a bit, I will be looking at those, Dakotas (though not a fan of single doors anymore), PA32 Cherokee 6 300s/Lance, or similar. A mate over here, originally from Toowoomba, has a later mode C177RG.. they are cracking aircraft, too. I am thinking of crossing to LSA as within the UK, suitably equipped LSAs can be used for instrument flying.. but while they are good from some European countries we have reciprocal agreements with, they aren't good for all without bureaucratic faff. .. and you can't instrument fly them in any other European country. Way back in 1996, which was my last year in Aus before first emigrating, I worked in Traralgon servicing Morwell and Hazelwood power stations. Occasionally flew from YMMB to YLTV to go to work (lived in Melb), although in winter had to go rent a unit as I was only VFR... Still have a whizzwheel I bought from La Trobe Valley Flying Club.. good, solid metal thing... still use it, too!

thanks

Pardon my ignorance (which all of you are already aware ;-)), but what is SIS? Googled it and nothing relevant came up...

WHat do you fly.. Are you down gippy way?

That is a worry! Nothing to learn from, then...

How are ya, cobbah? Welcome to the club!

Wow.. that is educative. From my short stint in a state OH&S regulator in Aus, I know that they do take an us and them approach - it seems to be in the Aussie regulator psyche.. The CAA have their issues, but on the whole, they seem to be very fair about how they deal with those they regulate.. they do understand people aren't perfect and accidents happen. Naturally, complete stuff ups are unlikely to be tolerated, but submitting a report will not attract undue attention, unless it is falsified, I guess. If we are deined class D transits, we are encouraged to report it and people do. Not sure anything happens, but there is no fear of reprisal. Very sad as the system cannot improve if they are actively discouraging feedback - which sounds like what they are doing. And this cannot be in the short or long term interests of safety... Maybe their acronym stands fro Completely Against Safe Aviation?

Piper Cadet?