special

My first lesson in a 1942 WW2 T6 Harvard at Earls Colne Airfield, Essex.

I finally get signed off on my tailwheel conversion, after practising wheeler landings, forward slips, and tarmac touchdowns.

I have spent all 470 hours of my flying in nose-wheel aircraft. It’s time to see if I can tame a taildragger.

In this special report, I travel to the Slovenian/Italian border to try flight in Pipistrel’s Velis Electro.  The world’s first certified electric aeroplane.

I visit a luxury fly-in retreat in the Scottish Highlands, and see a real example of why it’s always essential to carry fuel in reserve.

I learn how to fly a Piper Arrow 3, which has a variable pitch propeller and retractable gear.

I’m thrown into the deep end, and made to land a 737 simulator, after a hypothetical emergency on-board, that leaves the flight deck crew incapacitated.

I’ve been busy filming a new mini series, demonstrating aerodrome and radiotelephony procedures in the UK.

It’s the news you and I have been waiting for. Oscar Romeo is almost out of the sick bay.