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The CAA’s Head of General Aviation, Rachel Gardner-Poole, has written a letter to industry representatives in response to requests for financial assistance for the sector, as it attempts to recover…

Please click HERE to read the latest update on UK Aerodromes compiled by GAAC and AOPA board member, John Walker. Please note this relates to planning and other issues and…

Please CLICK HERE to listen to this new radio documentary outlining threats to airfields, ranging from housing pressures to Coronavirus-related economic problems. GAAC made itself available early on to help…

The UK CAA has issued CAP1925: COVID 19 – Preparing to Return to Normal Flying Operations for General Aviation Private Pilots. It supplements information already published (CAP1919). Note the latest…

The Department for Transport (DfT) issued updated guidance on recreational flying on 15th May 2020. GA flying (not training) "is now allowed": • From English airfields• If social distancing measures…

As flying schools in the UK prepare for a date when they can resume training safely, and guidelines which the DfT and CAA are preparing, this is an example of…

The CAA has issued Safety advice and tips for pilots returning to GA flying post-COVID-19. It states: For many pilots when they return it may be their longest break from…

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that Sir Stephen Hillier is the preferred candidate to replace Dame Deirdre Hutton as Chair of the UK Civil Aviation Authority on 1st August…

Please click HERE to view the latest EASA Safety Information Bulletin.

Please click HERE to view the letter sent by the APPG-GA to the Chancellor on 20th April. Signed by APPG Co-Chair Lord Davies, the letter stresses the critical situation now…