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Trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina Sept 2019

This year’s big trip was to be to the Balkans and the two pilots who signed up for this longer than usual trip were James Barker and Jason Wright. Day 1. This weather for the duration was looking good and the initial plan was to get down towards Salzburg on the first day so that […]

The Longest Trip Yet

Between the 23rd and 28th September with much appreciated support from my friends at Freedom Aviation I undertook the biggest trip yet. 4000NM in 5 and a half days, 1400 litres of AVGAS burnt, 16 airfields visited and best of all 46 hours logged. Enjoy the pics.                 […]

A Pilot’s view of Fly-out Scotland trip by Adam Knee

Early morning on August 26th, two PA-28 aircraft, G-SACO & G-CFMX, departed Stapleford runway 21L for a 3 day adventure to Scotland. We left the circuit to the north east and followed the coast via Hull, Whitby and Newcastle, then cut across the north of England towards our first stop in Kirkbride. The weather was […]

Croatian Expedition by Jon Hunt the Flying Reporter

In May 2018 I joined three other aircraft on a five day tour of Europe, flying through France, Italy, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Belgium. If you’d like to do something similar, but lack the confidence, you might want to consider contacting my mentor for this trip, James Lee of Buddy’s aviation. James specialises in […]

Chasing the good weather around Europe

On my most recent trip I saw myself introducing a ATPL student to flying GA in Europe with its multitude of different classes of airspace that we are normally not used to in the UK. We had to chase the good weather as numerous thunderstorms were present all over the European mainland and in my […]