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Exercise caution when driving through clouds. The silver lining may be another motorist.

If you find your wheels are aqua-planing on a wet road, pull up and climb to a safe altitude.

If you break down, try to guide you car onto the nearest soft-shoulder.

Make sure you have the owner of the flying car's permission before taking off for school.

Always try to arrive early as it will avoid being docked house points by Snape.

When landing try to avoid hitting a whomping willow. They are old and valuable and tend to smash your car when annoyed.

Once landed leave your car somewhere safe, like the forbidden forest. Giant spiders do not in general make good car parking attendants.

The practice of opening the window to make handsignals is to be discontinued above 30,000 feet.

Do not use your brakes excessively in wet weather. Use your air brakes.

Whilst driving over Tower Bridge is acceptable, flying through it will incur 6 penalty points on the driver's licence.

Do not park outside a flying school entrance

When pulling into the national skyway, be sure to check your mirrors, blindspot, sunroof, trapdoor and all points of the compass before making the manuevor.

Maintain a full sphere of observation around your vehicle at all times, paying special attention to jet-packing pedestrians, hover-horses and sky scooters.

If your vehicle breaks down, do not stand between your vehicle and oncoming traffic

Hand-signals are recommended should you stall

Use your fog lights when driving in fog ... or cloud as we call it.

Once airborne the dictum "rubber side down" does not always apply.

This is all pointless anyway-flying cars will never take off!

If you are flying particularly slowly, such that a queue of traffic has built up behind you, it is considered polite to land briefly so that traffic may overtake.

Joining the mile-high club is not advisable unless you have a chauffeur

If the bird you are following is an emu, gain height

Always make sure all is clear above and below.

On approaching home ground, do not hedge hop.

Ensure your speed is not faster than your thermals.

Do wear your goggles and parachute.

Don't crash land in a housing estate, look for a field without animals.

Keep your mobile phone in your pocket to give position if lost and need assistance.

Take a loaf to appease an angry bird.

Good luck!

Think once, think twice, think microlight.


If you are being closely followed by another, larger, aircraft (say a jumbo jet), pull over to let it pass, as its stopping distance is significantly longer than yours.

Slow when crossing migratory bird and butterfly flight paths, close the canopy when geese are near (taking care not to look up if they are above you), and beware turbulence as speed bumps will spill your travel mug of coffee.

Approaching slow moving traffic, undertaking is to be avoided..

Urgently flapping both arms WILL NOT slow
you enough to safely land...


Ensure your emergency water bottle is topped up prior to take-off.