FLYER Magazine

10 June 2020

In the Summer 2020 edition of FLYER. When you want an aircraft that’s nearly extinct, and you can’t buy the sole survivor, then you can recreate one. David Beale set out to do just that with his fantastic Percival Mew Gul replica, but found out that just like flying one, it’s not for the faint-hearted… To turn back or not? Prompted by two particular accidents, David Joyce examined 20 years of statistics for engine failure after take-off accidents in the UK, and wonders if a new approach is need to turning back after an engine failure on take-off… With comments by Steve Ayres – FLYER’s new Safety Editor In First Solo, we talk to Paul Dye, keen aircraft homebuilder and the last Mission Controller for NASA on the Space Shuttle Program. The impairing side effects of medicines can last well past the first few hours of relief the medicine brings, so in Accident Analysis, Joe Fournier asks, when it comes to accidents where do mistakes end and impairment begin? In Flying Adventure, after a brief sojourn in Germany – and a nod to the Spanish Pyrenees – Garrett Fisher headed for the Swiss Alps to undertake a high altitude adventure in a humble 100hp Piper Cub around 82 peaks over 10,000ft. In Top Gear, Ken Lince and Louis Wang put their newly installed Garmin GI 275 to the test for us. Is this the most versatile digital solution for round instrument panel hole retrofits yet? PLUS… - FLYER Club members save a brilliant £35 with SIX FREE landings at Beverley, Breighton, Cottered, Fishburn, Holmbeck and Middlezoy. - Great columns from Dave Hirschman, Mark Hales and Ian Seager - Plus all the latest news