The new Land’s End Airport Website is up and running. www.landsendairport.co.uk The website contains information about the Flying School.
	Hot news !! Westward Airways made the front page of the Cornishman newspaper recently with an aerial photograph of a large fire taken by Pete from G-WU whilst being flown by Ben, an excellent result showing our photographic capabilities.
	We are looking for a Cessna 172, with IFR capabilities. The aircraft will be available for private hire and training with the addition of training for the IMC rating.
	Reminder that all Membership must be paid, for it to run up to December 31st 2006.
	All prepaid discount accounts are no longer available, we now only operate financial Holding accounts.

FLYING TRAINING
Land’s End Flying School thank Chris Winch for covering as CFI over the Christmas and New Year.
Thanks to dry weather from high pressure, the airfield is firm and dry. All runways have the full length available.

FLYING SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP
Full Flying Membership
£72.00
Has full use of the flying school facilities, no landing fees, but pays for hangarage and parking.

Family Membership
£82.00
As full membership but allows family members living under the same roof the same status as a social member.

Social Membership
£27.00
Has full use of flying school facilities, but can not get flying instruction or pilot a flying school aircraft.

BRITISH WOMEN PILOTS ASSOCIATION
The British Women Pilots Association (BWPA) is enjoying it’s 50th anniversary - a year long celebration, during which they aim to see more women take to the air and raise the current percentage of females flying in the UK.
All are welcome on Saturday 11th February, the BWPA and Land’s End Flying School will be running a ‘Learn to Fly’ seminar. We will have the two national winners of the BWPA competition take their flying lessons. The formal seminar will start at 1400 and finish at 1700. Having teamed up with ‘Flyer’ magazine anyone who purchases a flying lesson voucher on the day will be entered in to a competition raffle to offer one lucky person one years subscription to ‘Flyer’.

AERO CLUB EVENTS
Met Office Visit
A visit to the Met. Office at Exeter is being planned soon. The Met. Office have yet to promulgate the dates of their open days. Watch this space for further news.

Mid Week Fly Away
All Flying School aircraft & private aircraft will fly away, on a Wednesday in early March to Bembridge (Isle of Wight) with stops on the way out & back. All are welcome. Enter names on the notice board. Be quick as only limited numbers.

PREVIOUS EVENTS
Xmas 2005 Mince Pie Meet
All those who attended hailed this a resounding success. As well as a chance to meet the staff and other members, there was an exhibition of paintings by a local artist and a display of photographs taken by Alexis and Pete. The raffle and aircraft recognition competition, raised a good amount for charity. Andrew Evans won the quiz and Steve Tremaine the raffle. They each received headsets as their prize. Murray Hodgson won second prize in the raffle. Steve is particularly pleased as the headset he normally uses has the unfortunate habit of garbling his transmission. Apparently making St Ives Bay sound like he had said Penzance Bay, when asked for his location ! As it is often foggy wherever Steve is, this could have had unfortunate ramifications. Andrew Evans easily came top in the quiz, although he did fail to correctly identify Mark’s rendition of a Welsh Cob,which is the type of horse owned by our very own Christine. Strangely, considering Marks obvious artistic talent no one seemed able to identify this tie breaker correctly.

TUITION AND STUDENTS
Following our recent successful session of evening ground tuition it has been decided that another course will commence soon at a date to be decided.
All members are welcome and the price of £16 per person per session also includes tea / coffee and biscuits.
If you are interested in enrolling, please contact the Flying School.

First Solo
First Solo on January 11th for Dan Foster of Skybus.

CFI Mark Hillier is on the look out for more instructors and a scenic pilot for the new season.
If you are looking for that perfect valentines day gift, the Scenic flights and Trial flying lessons are up and running.
All are welcome to contact the Flying School to put forward ideas for new events in the 2006 season.