Our club launched on 3rd March 2025.

We have a programme of events already planned, with 3 dates confirmed in March through May and many more to come.

Please come along to the events in the coming months and hopefully you will also join us and enjoy being part of a very enthusiastic general aviation community across west Scotland, and beyond.

Many thanks to those participating in our first event for West Scotland Flyers.

A special thank you to Derek Pake for his amazing talk and slide show on his 3 Dawn to Dusk Entries. Derek won the Pooleys top prize in 2023 for this Irish tour of the 82 WW2 coastal navigation markers. He also won the 2024 first prize for his flight over the main Roman roads across Great Britain. Lost of straight-line flying in that last one!

The club is now underway, please join us at a future event, we cater for anyone involved in aviation.

Mark Stephen takes to the sky’s as he heads to north Uist in a lite aircraft, to meet the organisers of the Sollas Beach Fly-in. A special annual event, where pilots get to challenge themselves by landing on a public beach.

First established in the early 2000s by John Angus Macleod, the Fly-in has grown from a few pilots landing on Sollas Beach, to an event that now attracts light-aircraft enthusiasts from all over the UK as well as further afield in Europe. 

Listen to the BBC podcast here: http://bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028vdk

2025 dates: 5th and 6th July

Photo from UK Airfield Guide: www.ukairfieldguide.net/airfields/Sollas

Following a normal takeoff roll, on the initial climb-out the aircraft’s engine lost power due to water ingestion in the carburettor.  The aircraft was observed to depart from controlled flight and it struck an area of rising ground, fatally injuring the pilot.  Investigation of the aircraft’s fuel system revealed significant water contamination that had not been removed during the pre-flight inspection.

This Special Bulletin contains preliminary information on the accident and highlights that it is possible that an entire fuel sample tube of water, drained from the fuel system, can still produce an odour of AVGAS when smelled.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/aaib-special-bulletin-rockwell-commander-112-tca-n4698w-fatal-accident-kinglassie-fife-23-december-2024

A FORMAL planning consultation has been launched for a proposed new 78MW wind farm on land between West Kilbride, Dalry and Fairlie consisting of 14 turbines at the site, each with a maximum height of 200 metres, sited up to 350m amsl in the Kilmarnock class G corridor.

Turbulence from the wind turbines causes potentially dangerous controllability issues due to severe wake turbulence that will be directly in the path of aircraft whenever there is a wind direction of north easterly through westerly of stronger than 10kts. This effect extends downwind 30 times the rotor diameter, thus impacting the safely of aircraft movements locally.

This is already a serious concern for the smaller wind turbines close to West Kilbride and would multiply the effect of turbulence in the area dramatically.
The General Aviation community using Bute airfield, just 7 miles to the west, believe this proposal brings unacceptable risks for the safety of local pilots.

The image below shows the approximate location of the new wind farm extension, in red outline, on ground rising to 350m with the turbines top of blade a further 200m. This is approx. 1600ft amsl. The green route is above 2000ft to clear the Hunterston power station restricted zone. The blue route is below 1500ft to avoid Prestwick CTA

This will be directly affected by the wind farm with current plans.

The public consultation has now closed. Your can monitor progress through this link: https://crosbiewindfarm.co.uk/