Will the instructor hour become a pass or fail test?

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Will your revalidation refresher flight turn into a test? That’s one of the top three takeaways from this week’s news of CAA licensing changes.

Others include: Microlights are OK for Commercial Pilot Licence training and there are dark clouds ahead for instructors using a Pilot Medical Declaration. Plus: Return of the IMC Rating.

 In the news we discuss:

• Tayside Aviation faces being dissolved leaving students out of pocket
• Mooney Aircraft thrown a lifeline
• Aerotech to close ahead of Coventry Airport’s final day
• Airfield Petition receives 10,000+ signatures
• Microlight hero Malcolm McBride RIP

In What Caught My Eye, Dave fantasises over a final flight for Coventry’s Nimrod,  Ian congratulations the pilot of NASA’s Canberra after a sparky belly landing, and Ed tinkers with Shuttleworth’s de Havilland Comet (and sits in the pilot seat making noises).

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 Links:

#FLY2026: https://forums.flyer.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=139024

Airfield petition (ends 1 February!):  https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732869

CAA Wave 2 Comment Responses: https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-publications/publications/documents/content/cap3212/

Nimrod final engine run: https://youtu.be/hLgdt0uOgZs?si=5Lh5eraMdEKpFdHo

Shuttleworth Collection: https://www.shuttleworth.org/