Following Alex Trevett’s excellent presentation on Managing Partial Power Loss on Tue 3 March, the link below is to the Australian Transport Safety Board report to which Alex referred. Well worth a read, even if you attended the presentation. I will print and place copy in Planning Room for reference.
Dear Member,
Four important points to note and action:
HAC CHRISTMAS SOCIAL – TUE 9 DEC
Just one week to go to the 2025 HAC Christmas Social. Starting at 1930hrs in the RAFA Clubhouse and finishing when the last one leaves! Cash (and card) Bar. Everyone welcome, inc family and friends. To make this a free event, we need everyone to contribute an item of food – not too many mince pies please!
CENTENARY DINNER – SAT 7 FEB 2026
We have now successfully booked the Chiltern Forest Golf Club and secured an outstanding menu choice. We can confirm that the ticket price will be just £39.50 per person which will include wine at the table (the Bar will remain open til 2359hrs and the prices are similar to a pub). We will write again next week to take bookings – tickets numbers will be limited.
HAC FOB REVIEW
The HAC FOB will be reviewed this week and updated on 1 Jan 26. Any bids for updates should be sent to opsman@haltonaeroclub.co.uk ASAP.
NIGHT RATING TRAINING – JAN-MAR 2026
We plan to conduct Night Rating training (probably at RAF Benson) in early 2026. Numbers will be limited and some members have already signed-up. If you would like to register your interest, please email deacon.brown@haltonaeroclub.co.uk
Regards,
Mark
M T MANWARING
Air Cdre
HAC Chairman
As many of you will be aware our Online Booking System (EBS) and the HAC Admin database (HACaS) are both home-grown systems courtesy of PBH and Michael Bailey respectively. Whilst they have served us well over the years, they are now beginning to creak at the seams and the EBS especially demands more IT support time than PBH can afford us and our system for recording flights is entirely paper-based and necessitates considerable admin time and effort to transfer the required data into HACaS and the necessary engineering logs for our CAMO(s). To address these and other admin issues and to underpin future growth, HAC has decided to adopt a new integrated application to replace the current EBS and HACaS. It is called PLOGBOOK and the links below will take you to some short overviews of the system. (Please note that these are videos which were prepared by PLOGBOOK to demonstrate capabilities to the Ops Mgr and we will be adding and amending some elements to better align with HAC’s processes before we go live.)
Over the next few weeks you will receive a series of slideshows and videos walking you step-by-step through using the various elements of the system as set up for HAC. The first of these – How to Sign Up to LOGBOOK (ie how to create an account) – is at the bottom link below. which will download the slides to your computer as a pdf which you can scroll through at your own pace. Your EBS & website login will remain as it is now – this will be a completely separate login; we will not be able to synchronise the PLOGBOOK login with the Members login as we do not have the necessary access control of PLOGBOOK to do so. We do need all members to sign up and create their own PLOGBOOK accounts so we encourage you to do that asap.
PlogBook tutorials have been added into the Member Resources part of the website. You can find it here: PlogBook Tutorials
The CAA Licence Rules are changing on 1st October 2025. Details can be found here
Please address any questions to Deacon!
RY and GA have significantly different avionics fits so Steve T has kindly developed a short list of the differences to help pilots manage flying both aircraft. A copy of the list is at the link and also at the front of RY’s Document Folder and the POH in the ac.