June 12, 2015
Flight test: Diamond DA40 NG
Shining brighter: powered by the 168hp AE300, the ‘New Generation’ DA40 Star promises more performance than Diamond’s previous diesel-engined singles
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May 22, 2015
A great future for Bicester Heritage
Britain’s best-preserved 1930s RAF airfield is enjoying a resurgence as a centre for historic vehicles of all kinds, as Philip Whiteman discovers
May 22, 2015
SKYFARING – A Journey with a Pilot by Mark Vanhoenacker
Mark Vanhoenacker has written a book that could be a career-changing inspiration for any pilot who harbours ideas about becoming an airline pilot.
April 17, 2015
AERO 2015 – the Bulldog spirit
Pilot Editor, Philip Whiteman, reports from AERO 2015 in Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. Buoyant US manufacturer Cirrus refines the ‘digital’ SR series, Diamond pursues turboprops and experiments with a hybrid-engined tilt-rotor, Flight Design says the…
October 24, 2014
Go Commercial: Industry Round-up
For our annual round-up, Pilot contacted leading UK flight training organisations from across the industry; CAE Oxford Aviation Academy, Caledonian Advanced Pilot Training, CTC Aviation and Tayside Aviation. Providing a wide range of training, these…
March 25, 2014
Farnborough ACP consultation: what TAG isn’t telling us
Some very interesting facts about the TAG Farnborough Airspace Change Proposal (ACP) emerged from the briefing hosted by Lasham Gliding Society on Sunday 23 March.
January 22, 2014
A career in aerial surveys
Not all commercial pilots fly passengers or freight: rapidly-expanding environmental survey company APEM offers professional pilots a very different kind of flying
November 8, 2013
CAA GA Unit reception: our verdict
After Wednesday’s informal reception at CAA House in London, we were left with the impression that the Authority really has been moved into action by the Government’s General Aviation Red Tape Challenge.
October 30, 2013
e-Go makes first public flight
On 30 October the prototype e-Go SSDR (single-seat deregulated) made its first public flights in at Tibenham Aerodrome in Norfolk the hands of test pilot Keith Dennison.
August 14, 2013
Flying with the Tiger Nine
The world’s only nine-ship Tiger Moth formation display team could be seen to be ‘doing it the hard way for the sake of it’ — but boy, is this fun flying!
May 22, 2013
How much alcohol is too much?
In mogas, that is: the flying magazines and forums have been alive with of subjective accounts of how mogas containing ethanol has supposedly caused problems with aircraft fuel systems, but rather less has been reported…
