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Post license friendship - can club force instruction?
I had a very similar situation, although without a club involved.
The chap who taught me to fly through my local flying school in the early 2000's was the same guy I got back in touch with in 2016 ...
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Can I share ACARS messages online?
As I'm sure you're aware, this portion of the Wireless Telegraphy Act is essentially unenforced for casual and personal airband scanning, with many airports, and air shows openly promoting and ...
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Does rain affect VFR criteria?
Rain or no rain is not a factor for meeting the legal definition of VFR minimums.
However, at those minima, which is roughly 1 mile/clear of cloud in North America, it is dangerous.
I would fly in ...
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Does rain affect VFR criteria?
Not directly, however heavy rain will tend to reduce visibility, and obviously you need a certain visibility to remain VMC.
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Post license friendship - can club force instruction?
This is pretty much a legal question: about aviation law & regulation, and the flight club's right to dictate matters of this nature.
I'm not a specialist in UK aviation law, hence I advise you to ...
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Where can I go to sit in the cockpit of a Boeing?
If you're in the South West then take a look at the full motion flight simulator at Jet-Ex Simulation. It's a full 737 cockpit on a moog motion base with 6-dof. They're based in Frome, Somerset.
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Where are some of the most challenging airfields in the UK?
This sort of question is more interesting when we don't narrow it down to one country but have one answer per country. In that spirit, this answer is for:
United Kingdom
Short
There are a number of ...
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What aircraft can an NPPL SSEA holder fly?
A Cessna 150 might have been manufactured in the US (or Reims in France) but that doesnt make it a "US" or "French" aircraft for the purpose of licensing. What matters is the state ...
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What is being proposed for converting UK NPPLs to PPLs?
For a little background, in 2023 the UK CAA launched a 3 phase consultation on General Aviation Pilot Licensing & Training Simplification. Much of this seems to have stemmed from the request to ...
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Can I share ACARS messages online?
Related regulations are local, but are the implementation of obligations agreed by all member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the UN, so most countries have ...
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