Flyer UK – September 2018

In this month’s issue of FLYER:

- With the ink barely dry on its EASA certification, Europe’s newest GA trainer, the Sonaca 200 is about to start appearing on flying school fleets, including some in the UK. We have the exclusive first UK test!

- While it looks an old-timer, the Bücker and Funk BF139 is really a modern machine in a smart vintage suit. And if you’re thinking it’s one of those European types that we’ll never get our hands on, well, an EASA regulation change may be about to alter all that…

- In First Solo, we meet Patricia Mawuli Porter, the first woman in Ghana to earn a civilian pilot’s licence, and who is currently inspiring others with the WXYZ Plane building project.


- We remember test pilot and contributor John Farley OBE AFC CEng MRAeS, with a 2003 column about why ‘Being objective about strengths and weaknesses is critical to being a good pilot’

- When aircraft systems get complex, aviation engineers create procedures and checklists to enable their safe operation. But as Joe Fournier discusses, you can only rely on them to work if
you actually understand them

- Having crossed the Atlantic with their 1952 Beech 18 twin in 2017, Phil and Allie Dunnington venture to the Caribbean and Cuba, on another adventure, replete with their hot-air balloon…

- In Top Gear, we test navigation App, ForeFlight, which has just launched for the European market.

PLUS:

- Save £82 with six fantastic free landings!
- Great columns from Matt Dearden, Mark Hales and Ian Seager.
- All the latest news.