A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere. Two solstices occur annually, around June 20-22 and December 20-22. In many countries, the seasons of the year are defined by reference to the solstices and the equinoxes. Basically the Solstice Point is the time on the date (twice each year) at which the sun reaches its maximum or minimum declination, marked by the longest and shortest days.

Cheap primer bulbs either split or rot out, I wonder if its E10 fuel ?

Brill vid, Paul. In the spirit of full disclosure I did watch Giles's vid first, but yours was ... ! 😆 Great to see you both showing what fun flying can be. I'm looking forward to seeing more adventures 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Another question is the nine rated as an ultra lite or a lite sport in US? I had thought ultralit and in US no license required and I don’t think it has to be regestered. Not positive about registration.

Giles sent me your way and really enjoyed . Congrats on the nine. One question please. I have the perfect place with my 12 acres but my barn only has a 20 ft opening. How much trouble to swivel or remove a wing ect🎉

Brilliant Paul. Absolutely loved this one. Fantastic Ariel footage. Really pleased you’ve got some sponsorship now. You’ll be running your own airline soon. See you soon. Work just isn’t the same. K

20th June 2024 was a memorable evening indeed. My instructor took my avatar shot at around 21:45, just before I landed from my GST. 😊

Another great video! Really enjoying the content, thanks for bringing us along.

❤ I like to fly

That sky as the sun was setting looked amazing Paul and in crisp clear 4k. Appreciate the great video and well done on the sponsorship, you're getting noticed. 👍

Another very enjoyable watch that really celebrates the freedom and blissful adventure that these aircraft bring. The solstice theme just brings that extra bit of magic. Nice. 👍😎

What a lovely evening Paul. Yet again beautiful scenery. 👍👍

I used Quiz Aero too. I also recommend them to students I talk with

That was a great flight. Thanks for taking us along. What about putting a strobe light on your machine. Thanks.

Paul, you're inspirational. The training course looks cheaper than buying the books. Summer solstice - I remember reading somewhere about an astronomer in Glasgow (?) Looking through a large telescope waiting for a particular star to get directly over head. I could be way off but that's all I remember.

That was an amazing flight. Really enjoyed seeing your perspective.

Oooh that was awesome, brilliant views, what an experience

What a fantastic flight. Bet you don’t do the winter solstice!

I wonder if full size pilots make good model flying pilots and vice versa?

At 1:53 I've never seen so much malt vinegar on sale. They must do a roaring trade there on chips to sell that much.

Are there any updates on the IMC proposals?

Hi Paul, This is why Drone Pilots are getting a bad name !!! in Scotland we have Muppets like this !!!! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLeSntmJm5azpqM.html his videos are just BAD PRESS !!!!

Turn the engine off! Now you have a Hangglider! All you have to do is turn high onto base leg, Have a longerbase leg. Then still with good hight on turn onto final leg useing the turn to get at the right hight. Bingo, your down safe & sound.

Looks like it was an awesome day out. 👏

It looked a bit soggy, but the Gyro display looked amazing.

Pity about the wet but it looked like an awesome day out. On my bucket list for next year.

Couldn’t go this year but went last year and it was epic. Would love to fly there but a bit of a stretch for the Peabee from Boston.

Bit wet this year but a very enjoyable few days at the show. Weston park is one of the best shows on the calendar, I never miss it ❤

Hi Paul, love your Vlogs. I do have one equipment related question: is there any regulation on what type of helmet you have to fly with in different categories of aircraft. I notice in most sub70’s people use a much lighter helmet than the one I use in the Quik I train in? Cheers. Colin

Hi Paul, which typ of headset / helmet set do you use? And which kind of microphone? I cannot hear any noise of wind. That is great. I would like to have the same kind of headset.

Love your videos. Giving me inspiration 🎉

CORRECTION: Un- Injured. Regards BATTS.

Hi Paul, REF: LANDING! If you walk away from one in-injured, It was a good One! Another great little Video.

Model plane flying is dangerous. It got me onto the RAF, and I only went in to take a closer look at the model Tornado that was in the window! Mum was well annoyed. 😅

so, in a severe departure from stable flight the airplane will basically snap-roll forward passing vertical into inverted (something which you called a whipstall)... in a smoother scenario, the nose will dip rapidly requiring a quick reaction to regain speed, but the aircraft remains somewhat controllable.... in the smoothest scenario, the airplane will just sink vertically, which does not develop into a flat-spin since you still have your roll control.

did the wing actually stall (exceed critical angle of attack with the airflow leaving the wing) in the first scenario, or was it just unable to maintain level flight and therefore in extreme sink... I ask this because I do not see any buffeting which really surprised me.

Any landing you can walk away from is a good one

TBF Paul, that landing wasn't as bad as the one I did on my GST........and I still passed! 😲 🙂

Can you spin a weight shift microlight?

well i tried one of these death traps. i have been flying over 50 years. so i said these arent even real airplanes. so i bought one. well i crashed it and it killed me. spun into a gas tanker. it blewup. then it went vertical and crashed into a a 10 warthog which thought iw as trying to shoot it down then it opened fire on me shot me all to pieces. was a bad day. but im better now. lots of superglue works everytime

Not too sure that first one was a fully-developed stall. I think you were still flying, whilst descending - at or close to vmin - unless you genuinely felt it break. What does the handbook say about spiral dives btw? They really are bum clenchers in flexwings, so I wouldn't recommend you do those for fun unless your very-much across entry & recovery! I nearly offloaded lunch the first time I did one of those in an old F2A.

What a great video Paul, love the editing and quality every one gets better and better. I would like you to show us what the real world take off and landing distances are in your flex and what the shortest runway length an average pilot could operate it from on an average day and as a bonus could you show us it's short field performance (you knew I was going to ask that) 😛

Good video mate!

Hello in the comments.

Great vid, Paul.Keep them coming! 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Can’t speak for flex wing folk but I fly a within GA. Under NO circumstances would I ever practice engine off landings. Glide approach and PFLs away from the airfield is enough. Honestly, I think it would be crazy-stupid to even go onto one Mag, let alone switch the engine off. No chance!