This page is dedicated to announcing the achievements of our members.

Those will mostly be reports of success in examinations and flight tests but not exclusively so.  Several members have outstanding achievements in pursuits outside the club.

Harry Humphreys went on his first solo in Coonagh on 13th February 2010. He flew in EI-LFC. He has become among a very elite group or club pilots who have achieved solo flight around their 16th birthdays. We are not quite sure, at this moment, if Harry is actually the youngest man ever to accomplish a first solo in Coonagh, but he certainly has not missed out on that honour by more than a couple of weeks. What is much more interesting is that Harry is the third generation of Humphreys to be pilots at Coonagh. We are well accustomed to Gerry, Harry's father, flying upside down and scattering smoke around the field at all kinds of unpredictable moments, but of course Gerry's father also flew in Coonagh. What a wonderful family tradition, and thank heavens, and Dan Lehane, that the airfield is still here for long enough for the Humphreys family to achieve such a wonderful status.

Martin McMahon carried out his first solo on Friday 22 January 2010. Congratulations on that great achievement, and also for being the first to do it in the New Year.

Neil Rankin became a real instructor on Friday 22 January 2010 when he sent the first student on his first solo, that was Martin. A great team both of you.

Peter Cazalet has achieved his CAA (JAR) PPL on 4th June 2009. Peter has been working on acquiring his licence for many years, and recently he decided to travel to France to complete his examinations and flight test. Best wishes Peter and enjoy your success, we cheer for you.

Thomas Richter became a member of a very exclusive group within the club on 11 June 2009. He achieved his first solo in Coonagh on that day, with a total logged flying time of 7 hours 15 minutes. What is remarkable about his achievement is that Thomas is in a group of less than five people who have done their first solo in Coonagh in the past 20 years, with less than 10 hours logged time. A further remarkable point is that all the other very low time first solos, that we can remember, were considerably less than 20 years old, but Thomas is considerably older than that tender age. Well done Thomas, excellent performance.

Joe Hennessy's (R.I.P.) LFC Newsletter 5 part serial about his time spent as an Operations Manager for Air America in Udorn, Thailand was copied and filed by the University of Dallas for use as library research material.

You are invited to visit the the special page to get further details and read the full texts of the 5 articles.