It is now 21 years since Polly Vacher was the first lady to fly solo around the world in a light aircraft via Australia. Polly went on to be the first woman to fly solo over the North Pole in a single engine aircraft and the first woman to fly solo in Antarctica in a [...]

Martin Ferid is a Class Rating Instructor & Revalidation Examiner specialising in helping qualified pilots discover the splendours of flying in Europe either as part of their biennial review or a few days at a time in the true spirit of the LAA on an expenses basis. He also writes the monthly column in 'Light [...]

This talk is not to be missed. Ten tours in Iraq, flying experience in combat zones in Northern Ireland, the Falklands and the Gulf War, Arfur has some 12,500 hours, roughly half on helicopters, half on fixed-wing. He has over 6,000 hours as an instructor and has spent almost 1000 hours on night vision goggles. [...]

Flying for the movies’ – Marc Wolff is the real star of scores of action films from James Bond to Mission Impossible and the man who dropped ‘the Queen’ into the Olympic Stadium. Marc is the man who puts the most memorable aerial thrills on the big screen. If you don’t know Marc Wolff, you’ll [...]