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Following the Government’s latest advice to stop non-essential contact with others, the Bristol Strut and Bristol Aero Club have reluctantly decided that we can’t go ahead with our meeting on April 7th, nor, probably, with our other meetings up to our summer break.

Confirmation as to whether the May meeting is to proceed will be available on this website nearer the time.

UPDATE 26/3/2020
We live in extraordinary times! As you would expect, we have now cancelled the speaker for May as well as for April, and are re-booking them for next season. Rolls Royce have closed the Heritage Trust so unless conditions change our 1 June meeting is also cancelled.

This month our meeting will be the pertinent to us all and is to be held on Tuesday 3rd March in our usual Room 4 at BAWA starting at 7.30.

The speaker will be David Chambers who says:
“Time for some de-rusting prior to the start of another flying season. This month’s focus provides a quick refresher on R/T, not just the words to use but what they mean. What to say if you can’t comply or want something different? Are you clear on the difference between Air/Ground, FISO and full ATC?

David will takes you on a tour of the different levels of R/T interactions from unmanned grass strips to regional airports. Check your own understanding and walk away confident to request that next zone transit or self-announced arrival.”

Perception v Reality – recognising hazardous attitudes.

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 3rd December at 7.45 in Room 4. Bring some nibbles to share.

Aerospace Bristol, Saturday 23^rd November 2019, 11am

A tips and tricks seminar for existing users of the SkyDemon app for planning and navigation – Rob Hart from SkyDemon will discuss the intended workflow of the system, and will highlight some useful features which are perhaps less well known.

Seminar starts at 11am, and will be in the lecture theatre in the Concorde building.  The museum opens at 10am, and refreshments / lunch can be purchased in the museum café.

There is no cost to attend the seminar, but all those attending will have to purchase a museum admission ticket, either a group ticket for the day at £12, or an annual ticket at £16.50 for adults or £14.50 for over 65s, unless of course you already have a valid annual ticket.

Attendees are encouraged to bring their tablets with Sky Demon loaded

In the afternoon Concorde tours will be arranged for anybody who is interested.

For our next meeting we are fortunate to have a talk from retired RAF Group Captain Laurie Hilditch. Laurie is a graduate of the US Naval Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, a former Commandant of the UK Empire Test Pilot School, Head of Future Capability for Eurofighter and a Shuttleworth Trust pilot. He will be giving us a “Logbook Lucky Dip”  into his experiences. Tuesday 5 November, 19:30 for 19:45, BAWA Room 4, 589 Southmead Road, Filton BS34 7RG. Non-members welcome – contact Trevor Wilcock, chairman@bristolstrut.uk

The September edition of our Strut newsletter has been published today. Click here to read it now or have a look at the Newsletters section

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