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07/03/2025

Have you been flying recently? The weather’s been lovely, so hopefully you’ll have plenty of photos to share with us for the chance to feature in our monthly PDF edition! Post yours in the comments below ⬇️

📸 Clive Mason

06/03/2025

Tune in to tonight’s Livestream for our International Women’s Day special at 7.30pm, when Ed will be hosting alongside three talented female aviators, and Annabel will be chatting with Australia’s first Reno jet racer, Tammy Camilleri!

We’ll have all the usual general aviation news, weather and SkyDemon tip, and in Fantasy Hangar, we’ll be picking an open cockpit bimbling machine for enjoying this lovely spring weather. See you later!

This week, we have an International Women's Day special!

05/03/2025

Nottingham City Airport – also known as Tollerton – is to close permanently on 6 June 2025. More updates as we get them, so keep an eye on this post.

Nottingham City Airport – also known as Tollerton – is to close permanently on 6 June 2025.

04/03/2025

FLYER Club members, your March free landing vouchers are here! This month’s selection gets you into:

✈️ Wycombe
✈️ Easter
✈️ Rufforth East
✈️ Spanhoe

With plenty of sunshine still to come, sign in or sign up to get your vouchers now: www.flyer.co.uk/membership

03/03/2025

Livestream announcement! 📣

This week it’s an International Women’s Day special, and we’ll be chatting to trailblazing pilot Tammy Camilleri about becoming Australia’s first woman to race jets at Reno.

We’ll also have an all-female presenting line-up featuring:

👩🏻‍✈️ Record-breaking balloon pilot Allie Dunnington
👩🏻‍✈️ Round-the-world Tiger Moth adventurer Amanda Harrison
👩🏻‍✈️ Cirrus Aircraft’s Director of SR Product Line Ivy McIver
👩🏻‍✈️ And of course FLYER’s own Annabel Cook, Deputy Chair of the British Women Pilots' Association

Join us at 7.30pm on Thursday 6 March!

28/02/2025

Today’s your last chance to get 25% off FLYER Club membership!

With the new flying season practically here, now’s the perfect time to become a member and look forward to a whole year of free landings, exclusive webinars and all the aviation content an avgeek could wish for.

Sign up at www.flyer.co.uk/membership and enter the code VALENTINE25. Choose between annual membership for the bargain price of £39 or monthly for £4 a month.

We’re looking forward to welcoming you on board!

27/02/2025

Airfields are the lifeblood of our flying, so if yours is doing a great job, tell us about what makes it special here!

Why? Because we’ve got an Airfield Special looking at what’s going on around the UK in tonight’s FLYER Livestream.

Join Ian, Dave, Jonny and Ed for an exciting chat about Airfields: The Good, The Sad and The Closed, tonight at 7.30pm… click the link below.

What's happening across the UK's General Aviation airfields? Is the government keeping its promise to protect a network of GA aerodromes?

26/02/2025

The battle to save Nottingham City Airport, known as Tollerton to many pilots, has had a significant boost from the Department for Transport (DfT).

The DfT confirmed that General Aviation airfields are 'important' and that planners must, by law, maintain the UK's network

25/02/2025

Livestream announcement! 📣

This week we’re doing a GA airfields special that we’re calling ‘The Good, The Sad and The Closed’.

🙂 In the ‘good’ category we have the likes of Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green Airport (pictured) with its recent infrastructure investment.

🙁 In the ‘sad’ category are the many airfields under threat, such as Wellesbourne

☹️ In the ‘closed’ category we have the ones we’ve already said goodbye to, such as Panshanger

Join us for a look at the state of UK airfields, plus all the usual news and views, at 7.30pm on Thursday 27 February!

24/02/2025

Don’t miss this month’s member webinar TOMORROW at 7pm, when CAA Safety Sense author and former FLYER columnist Ed Bellamy will be going through everything we need to know about carb icing!

If you’re not yet a member, it’s not too late to sign up and get access to this and ALL our previous webinars on all manner of useful topics. Sign up now at www.flyer.co.uk/membership - and there’s still time to use the code VALENTINE25 to get 25% off!

21/02/2025

On the latest Livestream Fantasy Hangar, the team went in search of dream places to live with your aeroplane that are currently on the market.

Ian picked a dream home for a seaplane owner on Seymour Lake in Alaska ($1.2m), Jonny an epic Spanish-style pad in Arizona ($19.5m), Dave found a beautiful pad in Monteverdi Marittimo, Tuscany that was so expensive there was no price listed, while Ed's dreamy small house and private airstrip that he found in Elk Creek, California had a price that could possibly see a fantasy choice made into reality…

Check out the story on flyer.co.uk to watch Fantasy Hangar plus find links to the four properties.

https://flyer.co.uk/feature/fantasy-hangar-homes-challenge/

And most importantly, tell us which one you would pick!

Inspired by a hangar home that’s for sale in the UK, on the latest Livestream Fantasy Hangar, the team went in search of other dream places to live with your aeroplane that are currently on the market.

21/02/2025

The 2025 British Airways Speedbird Pilot Academy scheme is open for applications (deadline is midnight on Friday, 21 February 2025 - that’s tonight!). We had a quick chat with BA’s Pilot Recruitment Manager Lucy Silvester about the scheme.

British Airways Pilot Recruitment Manager Lucy Silvester explains the fully funded pilot training scheme and how to apply

20/02/2025

Don’t forget to tune in to tonight’s Livestream, when ATC expert Darren Lewington will reveal three things pilots get wrong on the radio! He’ll also have a primer on everything you need to know about the new-look Manchester Low Level Route (now catchily known as the North West Transit Corridor). In Fantasy Hangar, we’ll be choosing our actual Fantasy Hangar, searching for hangar homes in the classifieds.

See you at 7.30pm!

This week's guest is Darren Lewington, who will reveal three things pilots get wrong!

19/02/2025

Aviator’s dream house alert! 🚨 This contemporary style barn conversion features an air strip and two hangars at Piltdown, near Uckfield in East Sussex. One for your wishlist?

FLYER's incredibly short list of Aviator's Dream Houses #: barn conversion plus air strip and two hangars at Piltdown, Sussex

18/02/2025

Draconian measures to reduce traffic at Gloucestershire Airport are in place following a series of near-misses in or near the airport’s Air Traffic Zone.

Draconian measures to reduce traffic at Gloucestershire Airport are in place following a series of near-misses

17/02/2025

Livestream guest announcement! 📣

This week we’ve got ATC instructor and examiner Darren Lewington on to talk you through everything you need to know about the new North West Transit Corridor (the Low Level Route, as was).

If you’re likely to be flying Manchester way any time soon, it’s a must!

See you there at 7.30pm on 20 February.

14/02/2025

The news that owners of fabric covered Piper aircraft have worried about for a while has come true: an Airworthiness Directive requiring replacement rudder posts to be fitted on many models.

13/02/2025

Don’t miss tonight’s Livestream, when we’ll be chatting with politician and pilot Grant Shapps about the future of aviation in the UK and putting some of your questions to him. In Fantasy Hangar, we’ll be picking not one but TWO aircraft each - one fast, one slow, both from the classifieds! See you tonight at 7.30pm.

This week we will be welcoming former Aviation Minister and Secretary of State for Defence, Grant Shapps!