• Flying to Luxembourg

    Introduction – It’s long been an idea to fly to Luxembourg once I had got my Instrument Rating, however, due to COVID and other changes…

  • France for Lunch

    Introduction – We had originally planned to fly to Luxembourg from Friday to Sunday. However, for safety reasons, the weather on arrival in Luxembourg was…

  • Flying into Amsterdam Schiphol

    Introduction – Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the Netherlands’ largest international airport and one of the world’s busiest, with six runways, one of which is devoted…

  • The Key to Spain: El Cheapo

    Introduction El Cheapo is a pseudonym, for inexpensive and typically of inferior quality. Used in aviation it refers to anything cheap. In Spain, it’s often…

  • IFR to Ibiza

    Introduction – I visited this amazing island in 2015 and wanted to return, but this time in a light aircraft. Ibiza, one of the Balearic…

  • Italy’s Hidden Secret

    Introduction – With big trips to Slovakia and Zurich under my belt and armed with a new oxygen system, it was time to extend the…

  • Visiting Zurich

    Introduction – It’s always been a dream to fly to bigger airports, this time a country I’ve never visited; Switzerland. There were two choices to…

  • Golze In-Flight Weather

    Introduction – Golze Engineering is the leading supplier of Worldwide in-flight satellite weather products. Since 2012 it has used satellite technology to bring live weather…

  • Implementing SOPs

    What are SOPs? Firstly what are SOPs? Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are simply a specific way of getting things done and maintaining a steady consistent…