Essex Microlight Club

Useful Links

Essex member's aircraft building blogs and stories

• Tony's Rans S6-ES build log and blog
• Ginge's Tiger Cub build pages

Weather links for the South East:

• Isle of Sheppy Sailing Club weather station and webcam (based on south coast of the Thames)
• Met Office aviation weather
• WeatherWeb's 5 day forecast for the South East
• METAR and TAF [enter EGMC for Southend, EGSS for Stansted] If you are still learning your 'met', this site even translates METARs and TAFs into plain English!!  Just tick the translate box.
• Planning to land on Dengie Beach? Click here for tide times
• Latest UK wind map with trends and cloud info
• ...and finally a weather site for Steve S

Useful/interesting links:

• CAA info for flying the Triangle Of Death and getting a Luton zone transit (needs Adobe .pdf)
• BMAA web site
• Paul Bass' excellent Aerial Adventures site check out the picture and video galleries!!
• Al's Flight Club photo album
• Steve Elsbury builds a Kiss 400 microlight
• The BMAA microlight eGroup for general flying chat
• Whitehill Farm Aero Club (the long distance flyers club)
• Trevor Villa - Rotax engineer

Schools and local Airfields in or near Essex:

• Damyns Hall, Upminster
• Hunsdon Microlight Club, near Harlow
• Medway Airsports near Rochester, Kent
• Saxon Microlight School near Brentwood

Local Inspectors for Permit Renewal

• Brian Curtis    mailto:brian.curtis@tesco.net (flex and 3 axis)
• Gary Johnson   mailto:thehighflyer@aol.com  (flex and 3 axis)

Microlights for MS Flight Simulator 2002/4

• Incredible downloads from Island Microlights of Malta