Sad news.....

After running MSH Flight Training Ltd at Land’s End Airport for the past 2 years, I have reluctantly taken the decision to close with effect from Friday the 25^th November 2011.

Unfortunately there has been minimal custom for flying training, aircraft hire or sales of trial lesson vouchers over the last few months. This, combined with the poor economic outlook, means I have felt it necessary to close operations in their present form while the business is still solvent.

Although the flying school’s office at Land’s End Airport will be closed, trial lesson vouchers can still be redeemed (while they are valid i.e. within 12 months of their purchase date) with the FLY-NQY flying school based at Newquay Airport. Tel 01637 861744 www.Fly-nqy If you are contacting them to book your trial lesson please let them know that your voucher was issued by MSH Flight Training Ltd.

If you, or the recipient of the voucher if it was a gift, do not wish to fly the trial lesson with fly-nqy for any reason, a full refund of the voucher price can be arranged provided you inform us while the voucher is still valid (within 12 months from the purchase date).

If a refund is your preferred option, please e-mail your voucher details (voucher number, voucher recipient, purchaser’s full name and purchaser’s telephone number) to flymshft@btinternet.com. We will then contact you to make arrangements for the refund to be paid. Please note that refunds will only be made to the purchaser.

I am now the flying examiner for fly-nqy, and am available for checkouts, flight tests and revalidations. They have agreed to welcome all of my customers if they wish to continue flying with them.

I would like to thank everyone for their support over the last 2 years. This has been a very hard decision for me.

Mark.

MSH Flight Training.

Cabinets and codes...

We had a visit from one of the Pooley's sales team. He brought us a new cabinet along with some other goodies. Of particular note, is the fact that now anyone buying online with Pooleys can enter a code entitling them to a 5% discount. See www.pooleys.com. The code to use is MSHFT, which you need to enter during the ordering process.

Cleaning chores...

Nice weather today supported some good flying. A student this morning is wrapping up his training to revalidate his Pilot's Licence, and one particular Trial Flying Lesson this afternoon enabled a local air cadet to get airborne for 40 minutes.

The good weather gave us a chance to give G-EOLX a clean. Now approaching Winter, and with the frequent soft ground at the airfield, it is necessary to clean the aircraft regularly. It is just one of the chores that goes with the flying!

Square eyes and websites!...

Bit of a poor start with the weather today with low cloud and even mist. It brightened at 11am though, and has been a good day since. Keep an eye on the website, we are working on an update for it........we have square eyes now though!

Admin and Instrument Approaches....

Well, it's the start of another week here at MSH Flight Training. Unfortunately, no flying today due to the poor weather earlier on, and it's only now just clearing...typical! However, it gives us plenty of time for the most important thing outside of the cockpit, admin!

We have had one of students getting to grips with instrument approach plates today, under the guidance from one of our instructors. Instrument approach plates can at first seem very hard to interpret, but provided one is studied logically, it is actually quite simple. Have a look at some online on the NATS-AIS website.

Catch them young.......

A good amount of flying already this morning, with our youngest student Harrison (7) about to take to the air on his second flying lesson with chief flying instructor Mark! Harrison, in preparation for his flight has drawn a map of our Cornish coastline detailing where he would like to fly. Harrison's father has his film camera in hand to capture the event and is seated in the back of our Cessna 172, G-EOLX. You can see his excellent first video via our website. Just click the link under the Trial Flying Lesson prices on our homepage.

Some people may have noticed a multitude of changes to our website www.mshflighttraining.co.uk. We have added a Facebook link, but also our Land's End Airport weather page. It details current weather for here and airfields nearby, and also any pertinent airfield or local information of interest to pilots. We are still making changes, but take a look at the"Trial Flying Lessons and Vouchers" section of the site and scroll to the bottom. Remember to closely check the time and date of the weather observation though!

That is it for this week. We are back in the office Tuesday morning 9am - Tel: 07850 341 963. Right, off to check out some fireworks........

NEW EQUIPMENT IN G-EOLX

Since coming back from its annual service recently our Cessna 172 G-EOLX has been fitted with a portable TCAS. This is a new miniature warning device . TCAS stands for traffic collision avoidance system and ours is fitted to the top of the instrument panel and warns us of any other aircraft that are near, by beeping and displaying the height and distance of the other aircraft if it gets near, so we always know where they are. The airspace in Cornwall is sometimes very quiet compared to say the London area but it is still good to be able to know in advance where the other traffic might be.

GOODBYE G-OCPC....

We have said goodbye to our venerable C152 G-OCPC recently. It has been sold to a new owner after many years of service through the various flying schools here at Land's End Airport. Almost every student and pilot over the last 20 years remember fondly either their first solo or PPL skills test taken in it. Even some of the current Skybus pilots had their first flying lessons in "PC".

This leaves us with our C172 G-EOLX, for the coming winter months.

IMC Ratings and revalidations........

Strong, blustery winds from the South with a lowish cloudbase and drizzle is today's weather here at Land's End Airport. We've been working hard so far this week, with flying and lots of admin to go with it. RNAS Culdrose have been very helpful and accommodating for instrument approaches over the past couple of days, meaning our students doing IMC ratings can get to grips with SRA's, PAR's, ILS's, NDB's etc.

We have also had several people coming back to flying, and looking to revalidate their licences. Here at MSH Flight Training Ltd we can not only train, but also test candidates with our in-house examiner. Of course, we also examine for the PPL written exams.