Essential Downloads:
VFR Flight Plan - Instructions (be patient - a bit slow)
Customs Declaration Forms (This is the General Aviation Report)
- Excel 2000 Version of GAR front form (copied from above)
- Excel 95 Version of GAR front form
Form HO 60 - Fuel Drawback form (Print double-sided) - This is a PDF flie that you fill in, print and send off.
- See HMRC Website for latest drawback figures
- Also: Fuel Drawback Advice....what you can and can't claim for.
PA28 Safety Card - Solent Flight
Passenger Flight Safety Info - Dauntless SW
UK Airspace Classification Form
Intercept Procedures - AOPA - It is a legal requirement to carry intercept procedures throughout Europe.
CAA Safety 'Leaflets' (pdf) - Lots of useful information for GA Pilots
These have been downloaded from various sources on the Web as 'free to download' and some pdf'd by myself. If such a download is yours and you wish to be acknowledged on this site then please let me know by e-mail: wingcommander@theflyingmonkey.co.uk
Weather & Briefing:
3 Day Weather Forecast - www.theyr.net
SkyLink - weather site for aviators
Preflight:
MOD - Aeronautical Information Documents Unit
- You really must use and support this facility (The Terminal Charts are Tops!)
gCAP Ltd - UK Airspace IFR Plates simplified for Cat A aircraft (CAA Approved).
Aircraft Checklists:
Cessna 150M - Dauntless SW
Piper PA28 - 161 Warrior II - Dauntless SW
Piper PA28 - 181 Archer II - Dauntless SW
These have been downloaded from various sites from the Web as 'free to download' or sent to me. I have put the Author's name where I have found it. If you find your checklist on my site and wish to be acknowledged on my site, have your site on my page or object to the offering of your checklist to the GA community via my site, then please let me know at wingcommander@theflyingmonkey.co.uk
For a more extensive set of checklists (and other great GA stuff) covering a wider range of aircraft, please visit:
Dauntless SW - Lots of great and useful GA stuff
Maintenance - only one place to get it done!
AVIONICS
Avionicare - Southend
Lees Avionics - Wycombe Air Park
Gatwick Avionics - Stapleford
LX Avionics - Filser Mode S Transponders
Other Useful Sites - Great for GA Resources and Tools.
Pilot Friend - Loads of Useful GA stuff & Links
McCurtain Technology - Service Manuals and Spare Parts Catalogs on CD ROM
Fly-Croatia.net - Gen info on flying in Croatia
UK Powered Paragliding - Paragliders do it in harnesses!
Training Links
Pilot Supplies
Cheap Life Jackets - 'silly name, sensible prices'....From £32 for 'Aviation' Life Jacket
Buy a plane
Places to Stay or Drink
Elysian Heights - Accomodation in Latchi, Cyprus
Chateau La Chassagne - Burgundy, France