Choosing and Joining a Flying Club

Many student pilots seek out a “local” flying club to train in for their Private Pilots Licence (PPL) simply because they are aware of its existence in t...

Choosing The Right Aviation Sunglasses

To many people a pilot seems to have a certain mystical quality to their character. They possibly see a pilot as that person wearing a sheepskin-flying jacke...

Training To Become A Commercial Airline Pilot

Becoming a Commercial Airline Pilot is a dream shared by many aviators and non-aviators alike. The romantic idea of taking to the skies as a captain of an ai...

Human Performance & Limitations

Our minds are a very strange and complicated machine, which we constantly use it and to trust it to tell us what it is happening in the outside world. Unfort...

Aircraft General & Principles of Flight

Most student pilots, as well as qualified pilots, sometimes look out of the window during flight and wonder just what the heck is keeping this thing up here!...

Limitations of Your Pilot's Licence

There are currently two basic types of Private Pilots Licence being issued for use in the United Kingdom, the National Private Pilots Licence (NPPL) and the...

Tests & Exams For Obtaining Your Licence

A lot of people turn to flying for the apparent freedom that the skies offer. They are sometimes surprised and a little disappointed when they start training...

Radio Telephony and the Private Pilot

A typical flying student at the beginning of their training will jump into an aircraft with an instructor and diligently go through the aircraft check list a...

Introduction to Gliding

Gliding is a form of flying that can be as relaxed or as active as you wish to make it. It offers a very quite, peaceful and inexpensive path for taking to t...

Flying & Meteorology

The weather plays a major part in a large proportion of accidents in General Aviation (GA), your safety, comfort and even if you fly at all. Therefore it sho...