Flyer Magazine

The CAA's take on Infringements - The FLYER Show - 5th November 2026

A couple of weeks ago we looked at the UK’s airspace infringement hotspots. Since then, the CAA has come back to us with some information, so we thought we’d take a close

Dumb Stuff That Pilots (Sometimes) Do - The FLYER Show - 29th October 2026

It’s true, some pilots just don’t know how to start, taxi, park, use the fuel pump, and get in and out of the hangar without winding up other pilots. Here’s FLYER’s guide

Where are Britain’s worst airspace hotspots? - The FLYER Show - 22nd October 2026

There are more than 1,100 airspace infringement each year in the UK which sounds a lot. But many are in the same places known officially as Airspace Hotspots, or as we pr

Learning to fly : Where is best in the World? - The FLYER Show - 15th October 2026

Is the UK the best place in the world to learn to fly? This week, we compare the sub-ICAO pilot licences across the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe, lo

Your Own Aeroplane for the Price of a New Car - The FLYER Show - 8 October 2026

What do you choose? A new car or an aeroplane? Yes, after last week’s show where we talked about expensive new high-performance microlights, we go to the other end of the

Fancy a 200mph microlight? - The FLYER Show - 1st October 2026

Thanks to the latest Rotax 916iS engine with its 160hp max power, there’s a flock of superfast microlights becoming available - and the latest, the JMB VL3, has just been

Does GA Have an Organised Crime Problem? - The FLYER Show - 24th September 2026

Does general aviation have an organised crime problem? A report from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) looks at the use of general aviation for smuggling drugs,

CAA updates Instructor hour - The FLYER Show - 17th September 2026

New guidance from the CAA sets out what instructors should cover during the one-hour refresher flight for SEP revalidation by experience. They make it clear that the hour

It’s not all doom and gloom at UK airfields - The FLYER Show - 10th September 2026

Airfield, airport and air strips: They’re the life-blood of General Aviation. We take a look at what’s going well, what’s not and what’s in between. It’s a subject we’ll

Don’t let that LAPL expire - The FLYER Show - 3rd September 2026

The Light Aircraft Pilot’s Licence (LAPL) has been a popular choice for many pilots but as the CAA has sought to streamline licensing (for all the right reasons), so the

Tecnam takes aim at Cirrus and Diamond - The FLYER Show - 30th July 2026

We had so much material from this year’s EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (OK, ‘Oshkosh’ for short) that we decided to cover the left-out bits in the show. There’s some really good

What’s new at Oshkosh 2026? - The FLYER Show - 16th July 2026

EAA Airventure Oshkosh starts next week and there’s lots to see. The FLYER works through the highlights that we know about: aircraft launches, product updates, new propul

Big GA News from Garmin, CubCrafters, Cirrus & Dynon - The FLYER Show - 9th July 2026

Blimey, this has to be one of the biggest news weeks we’ve ever seen (and Dave’s on holiday!) Big news from Garmin with a new integrated and configurable avionics ecosyst

CAA answers our cardio questions - The Flyer Show 2 July 2026

Perfect aeroplanes for summer evenings - The FLYER Show - 25th June 2026

It ain’t half hot, Mum! With weather like this week’s, what we need is a nice, simple aircraft for a cool bimble in the evening air. The team chose three aircraft that ar

80 fabulous years of the deHavilland Chipmunk - The FLYER Show - 18th June 2026

“Why do people get all misty-eyed about an old oily piston single with only two seats?” But this isn’t any old piston single, this is the de Havilland Chipmunk! Yes, on t

GA and Drones plus dumb CAA advice - The FLYER Show - 11th June 2026

We call it YADS (Yet Another Drone Story), but last week the CAA launched YAC (Yet Another Consultation), publishing three hefty documents capable of curing insomnia even

Replica Warbirds - The FLYER Show - 4th June 2026

Few of us can afford a genuine warbird but there’s a world of replica aircraft out there, many built from kits, some from plans and others – the really dedicated – from s

Transatlantic flight, done! - The FLYER Show - 28th May 2026

For some, including Ian, it’s a bucket list item. For others, ferry pilots, it’s a job. Whatever, it’s not a flight to be taken lightly because of weather, distance, weat

AFFORDABLE WARBIRDS - The FLYER Show - 21st May 2026

So what’s a warbird? Any aircraft with a military purpose at some point in its life, is what we’ve gone for. But not the £MultiMillion exotica like Spitfires and Hurrican