CAA General Aviation Safety Information Leaflet (GASIL)
 

I posted the following on the Aviation History & Nostalgia forum but without response. Maybe, on reflection, that was not the most appropriate forum. Maybe this forum is more appropriate. We shall see!

Does anyone know if the monthly CAA General Aviation Safety Information Leaflet (GASIL) for the period prior to 2000 (it was published until 2012 but it's only the 20th Century issues in which I am interested) are available online anywhere and, if they are, a hyperlink to the website(s) will be much appreciated. I suspect that the answer is in the negative as although I've used all the key word permutations of which I can think, all my google searches throw up are isolated copies on a diverse range of websites.

For those with whom the acronym GASIL does not immediately ring a bell, it was the monthly bulletin, full of cautionary tales, that was pinned to the notice board in the flying club - and all too infrequently read!

With my thanks in advance.

FV

GASIL became incorporated into the GASCo magazine 'Safety Matters' from late 2011/early 2012. Safety Matters is still published by GASCo but the GASIL centre pages stopped when the CAA pulled the funding. Unfortunately GASCo no longer provides its magazine to flying clubs and others for free. It is now, sadly in my opinion, only available from GASCo by a subscription of £16 per year. Needless to say the subscription numbers for it are declining.

You can register with GASCo to receive its online 'Flight Safety Extra' for free, via its website.

Thank you, Fl1ingfrog, but it's the historical issues that I'm hoping to trace. If it was the CAA that pulled the plug on GASIL, it's unlikely that it will have uploaded copies of these to a website. But there's the remote possibility that someone else, with or with access to a comprehensive run of the bulletin, may have done so out of public spiritedness. However I think that I'm at the 'highly improbable' end of 'remote possibility'!

Is there somewhere that has a copy of everything published in the UK?
The British Library???
The accident summary in GASIL became redundant when we could all access the AAIB Reports online.

Probably, Maoraigh1, but there's a great deal of difference between being available in one library and being accessible online. Also bear in mind that the further one goes back in time, the more sporadic is the availability online of AAIB/AIB reports - until you get to a point in time, not too far back (in the context of British aviation accident investigation), when few are available online and a trek to the National Archives becomes the only option!

The UK CAA used to have a splendid library which they stupidly got rid of to save money. Allied to this was an even better historical archive of old manuals, books & documents of historical value that few people outside of the organisation were allowed to see..

They might still have such an archive but don't hold your breath..

If that's the same library which contained historical AIB/AAIB reports, I presume that it is now - hopefully in its entirety - lodged with the National Archives at Kew. Certainly that is what the AAIB intimated to me. If so, its only available to personal visitors, not online. The fact that the National Archives are in West London and I am in the West of France is the reason why I enquired as to the existence of an online source!