Video Archives - Jon Hunt, The Flying Reporter

28th October 2019

I made it to Rotterdam

Further to my video update yesterday, I’m pleased to say that I made it to Rotterdam today, setting off a day earlier than planned. To view this content you need to be a member of The Flying Reporter Supporters’ Club. If you are already an active member, please sign in. Not a member? Join the Supporters’ Club now! Become a Club member now, and get access to bonus content, exclusive behind the scenes footage, live member-only hangouts and watch my episodes ad-free up to a week before general release. Find out how to sign up.

28th April 2018

My last landing at Biggin Hill (as a based pilot)

After recent events at Biggin Hill, and an increasingly anti-light aircraft atmosphere there, we have decided to move our PA28 to Redhill.

19th January 2016

Video: WW2 forts tour

I have been curious for some time, about several mysterious landmarks in the Thames Estuary, that feature on my Southern England aeronautical chart. It turns out they are a network of former World War Two, Army and Navy sea forts.

17th December 2015

Video: Cloud surfing in Kent

This is my first solo IFR flight after obtaining my UK restricted instrument rating. I was keen to get the rating, so that there were more opportunities for me to fly in the UK, despite it’s pesky, rotten weather.

1st October 2015

Video: Light aircraft transit of Gatwick Class D Airspace

Once again, I tackled a flight through Gatwick Class D controlled airspace in a PA28. I took this route, as it was the most direct course from Biggin Hill where I’m based, to Shoreham where I intended to land.

1st October 2015

Video: How light aircraft avoid collisions

When flying light aircraft, in uncontrolled airspace, mid-air collisions are primarily not avoided by instructions from radar controllers, or by using sophisticated cockpit equipment. Instead, pilots avoid collisions by using their eyes..a concept called ‘see and avoid’.