Air Racing, STOL, Rally, & More!

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What flying competitions can you take part in as a General Aviation pilot? There’s a surprising number of events and a wide range of sports, from air racing to short take-off and landing (STOL) competitions. For the tourers, there’s the Pooleys Dawn to Dusk Challenge, navigation exercises or precision/rally flying.

The SkyDemon tip is about integrated AIPs and airfield guides.

In the News we discuss:

• Old Sarum Airfield wins planning appeal
• Bicester Airfield hangar restored
• New helicopters everywhere at the Verticon trade show
• Fuel prices

In What Caught My Eye this week:

• Annabel intercepts a video from Sam Rutherford
• Dave spots a Spitfire
• Ed finds a real-life fantasy hangar that’s straight out of a Bond movie

Links:

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

Attend/Enter Real Stol event https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/g-for-george-1940s-weekend-2026-tickets-1966879179573

Spitfires.com circumnavigation https://www.spitfires.com/spitfire90

RRRA https://www.royalaeroclubrrra.co.uk/

British Aerobatics https://www.aerobatics.org.uk/

Top Nav https://rin.org.uk/page/TopNav

Precision Flying World Championship 2026 https://wpfc2026.pl/

British Precision Pilots Association https://www.facebook.com/groups/1687052261663401

Welcome to the Flyer show videos send to – [email protected] – Via WeTransfer

Timeline:

0:00 Intro

1:00 Start

2:49 SkyDemon tip

4:59 Weekend weather

9:21 News

18:08 Club News

20:26 Main story – Flying Competitions

39:27 What Caught My Eye

56:55 Events