Popham Microlight Trade Show 2014

GSAL will be at Popham Microlight Trade Show from the 3 - 4th of May, come and see our Fokker Eindecker replica, and find out about the aircraft kits available under the new SSDR rules. 

Yes the first microlight show of the year and the one we all look forward too, whatever the weather it's a great event to see new products in microlight aviation with many traders presenting their wares.

See you there...!!!

Dream Classic Kit Delivery

The GSAL team deliver Dream Classic kit GS-201 to Mike & Chris, here we see them checking through the inventory as we bring in the kit.

 

Chris signs the relevant paperwork, you can see the glee on Mikes face, he can't wait to get started on their new project.

Mike finishes the handover process with his signature and the Dream Classic kit is theirs. 

As a thank you for purchasing one of our kits, the GSAL team present Mike & Chris with a bottle of Champagne to drink after the maiden flight.

We will be monitoring their build closely and posting images on the blog, GSAL have designed a wing-fold system for the Dream Classic, which will also be a standard feature on our upcoming Dream Demoiselle.

E102 Passes the 100 hrs

E102, the first Eindecker kit sold in the UK has now passed the 100 hour mark.

Ian Brewster, who built the aircraft on a strict budget used a Fuji Robin 330 for the power plant with great success, see below:

 
During the build, Ian also incorporated some of his own design changes after consulting GSAL, this aircraft was always intended to be experimental and the sub 115 kg  SSDR category was perfect for this.

Now with the CAA's proposed changes to SSDR there will be even greater scope to build not only interesting aircraft but ones that will have a larger weather window for flight.

E104 Clocks up 63 hrs

Mike Clark, has clocked up 63 hours with E104 in 200 sorties, he clearly still enjoys flying his Eindecker.

Mike sent in a couple of images that look eerily like they were taken during 1915!

E105 Air to Air

Nice air to air shots of Steve flying Eindecker E105 on a lovely sunny evening.

Steve has designed a map holder for the Eindecker which allows him to keep one hand on the control stick at all times.

LAA Rally Review

Podcast review of the 2013 LAA Rally, please follow the link below and listen to Episode 66 of the Flying Podcast:

www.flyingpodcast.co.uk/exhibitions/episode-66-laa-rally-2013

GSAL are the first interviewed with George Simoni talking about our engine development program, followed by Robin Morton talking about additional kits to the Eindecker and Dream Classic, that will become available from the AA stable in the UK, if the CAA's intended deregulation of all single seat microlights is implemented.

SSDR Rule Change Proposed by CAA

This years LAA Rally was a great success and the weather was good throughout the whole weekend.  GSAL had a very good show and the new engine created lots of interest.  However, the most exciting news of the weekend was announced on Friday by the CAA, they are proposing a change to the SSDR ruling and deregulate all Single Seat Microlights. 

Providing there are no serious objections over the next six weeks of consultation the SSDR empty weight wing loading of 10 kg per sq m will be replaced with a maximum wing loading of 25 kg per sq m.  For GSAL this means we will be able to market more of the AA kits, such as the 80% Airco DH-2, 75% Fokker DVI, 75% Fokker DR-1, 75% Bleriot XI, 75% Morane parasol, just to name a few.

The link to the CAA website:
http://www.caa.co.uk/application.aspx?catid=14&pagetype=65&appid=7&newstype=n&mode=detail&nid=2276