SkyDemon adds frequency selector
Flight planning and navigation software specialist SkyDemon announced a new add-on at AERO 2025 today – a Bluetooth link to compatible aircraft radios allowing frequencies to be selected via Skydemon’s App. As Skydemon’s Rob Hart explains, the feature will allow Skydemon users to select a radio frequency from their tablet screen which will automatically be entered into an aircraft radio’s active or standby frequency list. The...
Elixir Aircraft soaring high at AERO 2025
The formal transfer of Egnatia Aviation’s first Elixir flight trainer took place this morning at AERO 2025. Egnatia’s CEO Dimitris Lymperakis joined Cyril Champenois, Elixir Aircraft’s co-founder and director of sales & marketing, for the formal handover of the first of 12 trainers ordered by the Greek flight training academy. “We’re delighted to take delivery of our first Elixir at the Aero Friedrichshafen air show....
AERO 2025 opens this week
Europe’s largest General Aviation trade show, AERO 2025, opens tomorrow at Friedrichshafen in southern Germany. Spanning 14 halls, housing 756 exhibitors from 38 countries, the annual show is Europe’s largest GA event, encompassing everything from short-mission drones to globe-trotting business jets. FTN will be roaming the halls over the next couple of days to report on what’s hot in the GA industry today,...
Private pilot licensing and training simplification project enters final consultation phase
The final consultation phase of the CAA’s substantial project to amend UK private pilot licensing and training has commenced today with the publication of AMC and GM documentation. The Acceptable Means of Compliance (AMC) and Guidance Material (GM) provide the detail of the proposed changes, which are being enacted to deliver a more simplified and cohesive training platform for private pilots following Brexit. After having left the EU...
Nottingham City Airport petition asks for eviction postponement
A petition asking Nottingham City (Tollerton) Airport landowners to postpone the eviction of businesses, resulting in the cessation of all flight activity at the Midlands airport by 06 June, has garnered over 1,400 signatures in just three days. As reported previously, Vistry Group, the landowners of Tollerton Airport, gave residents notice earlier this month that it was closing the airport ahead of planned redevlopment of the site...
Aerobility recruiting for new FI
UK Aviation charity Aerobility is recruiting for a new Flight Instructor to be based at the organisation’s Blackbushe Airport HQ. Aerobility says there is an element of flexibility as to whether the FI should be able to commit to working full time, part time or on an ad hoc basis, and are willing to be flexible and open in designing a schedule to suit them. Candidates will need to hold a UK CAA FI(A) rating and CPL in order to deliver...
