Start to fly
To many of us the appeal of flying an aircraft is so strong, and to some it has even become an ambition, that they want to find out the next steps to take in learning how to fly. There are a number of sites that offer various types of advice on this subject but they do not always provide a combination of expert, unbiased, comprehensive or clear and easy to understand information to help find out what it takes to become a pilot. Start to Fly has been written to overcome this and more!
Start to Fly is written by experts who are passionate about flying and want to encourage other people, of all age groups and backgrounds, to share this amazing experience with them. To this end they have prepared 30 articles to help anyone know exactly what is involved in taking to the skies.
It is a unique site where you can find out just about anything you need to know about starting to fly albeit as a career, hobby or even just for the experience of taking a trial flight.
This site is normally able to answer most questions and provide details on what is involved in starting to fly such as cost, duration of training, exams, medical requirements etc. There is even a panel of experts that you can put questions to if you cannot find an answer to them in these articles.
Click on this link to visit the site: starttofly.co.uk
French AIS
The French Aeronautical Info Service is a tad more user friendly than our own dear CAA version. Whatever, it's worth a dabble. It's at... Service de l'information Aeronautique. You need to click on the little flag top right to get the English version. Cursor on NOTAMS then click 'Narrow route'. Put in your flight details and you get Notams along whatever corridor you specify.
Flying Information
AvBrief great site for weather and NOTAMS, especially when coupled with NotamPlot
Flyer is a source of information.
For those dreaming of a career as a professional pilot, a good source of information is PPrune.
Various Aerodromes
Biggin Hill http://www.bigginhill.co.uk/airport.htm
Lydd http://www.lydd-airport.co.uk/
Blackbushe http://www.blackbusheairport.co.uk/
Rochester http://www.rochesterairport.co.uk/
Popham http://www.popham-airfield.co.uk/
Headcorn http://www.headcornaerodrome.co.uk/
Shoreham http://www.shorehamairport.co.uk/default.asp
Fairoaks http://www.alanmann.co.uk/FairoaksAirport.html
Southend http://www.southendairport.net/airfield_data.htm
Stapleford http://www.flysfc.com/
Elstree http://www.elstree-aeroclub.i12.com/index.htm
Earls Colne http://www.anglianflightcentres.co.uk/Airfield-Info.html
Maypole http://www.maypoleairfield.com/index.html
Manston http://www.london-manston.com/ or http://www.btinternet.com/~ashmoleum/tfly/
Chichester/Goodwood http://www.goodwood.co.uk/aviation/
Sandown http://www.isleofwightairport.co.uk/index.php
Bembridge http://www.eghj.com/
A great place to check out: Compton Abbas Airfield
Useful Information
Use this one for the new NATs site: http://www.nats-uk.ead-it.com/public/index.php.html
Use this to get registration details on aircraft UK Aircraft registrations
Club Documents and Forms
Day Membership form (Word)
Full Flying Member Application form (Word)
Security Awareness dcoument (PDF)
Club Rules (Word)
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