The official magazine of the Aircraft Owner and Pilots Association www.aopa.co.uk 789NM IN A STEARMAN CIRCUIT TRAINING TRIG'S LATEST Sue Girdler takes the classic Adam Winter offers advice on We look at the newest radios on aircraft from Kent to Prestwick how to correctly join a circuit offer from the UK's Trig Avionics Going Famed for its single-engine aircraft, Tecnam has switched gears with its 11-seat mini airliner. We get the inside with the track on the P2012 Tecnam Traveller MAGAZINE 02.2018 FREE TO MEMBERS WWW.AOPA.CO.UK 03 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE GA IS THE GLUE EDITOR David Rawlings THAT BINDS
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[email protected] efore Christmas, together with about 80 guests from the General Aviation community and Members of the Houses of Parliament and SUB EDITOR Lords, I attended a reception held by the All-Party Parliamentary Group Lucy Debenham B (APPG) on General Aviation. The Group’s Chairman, the Rt Hon Grant Shapps, used the occasion to announce the establishment of the Government’s CONTRIBUTORS first ever General Aviation Champion, Mr Byron Davies, who will advise and inform Adam Winter, Nick Wilcock, the Secretary of State for Transport, the Rt Hon Chris Grayling MP. It had been Pauline Vahey, Sue Girdler, recognised that GA was “…the glue that binds the entire aviation sector together…”. John Walker, John Pett Byron had been the first Chair of the APPG until he lost his seat in the June 2017 General Election. Both Byron and Grant are pilots/owners and long-standing PUBLISHED BY members of AOPA.