Pilot Magazine July 2025

Pilot July 2025 features electrifying PPL training as its lead feature, which reveals how H55 has built Solar Impulse technology into the Bristell B23 Energic. A leading contender in the race to become the first electric aeroplane to be fully CS-23 certified for flight training, the Energic’s power technology is a legacy of the great around-the-world Solar Impulse project.

The issue also features A Better Way to Fly? After years of hiring and owning aeroplanes, including classic ‘group A’ types, one experienced and active pilot concludes that microlights are the real answer to his and, very likely, your needs.

Plus, a look at extraordinary ‘Whizz Wheels’. Now becoming collector’s items, dead reckoning navigation computers may no longer play a part in everyday aviation but have a fascinating history – and are still there to save the day when GPS or the batteries fail!