James Rodgers - Pilot NI

24/09/2025

Are you based in Northern Ireland and in the Lisburn(ish) area? I play the French Horn in this orchestra. I’d love you to come along!

🎶Our next Come and Play Event🎶

Would you like the opportunity to play with a full orchestra? 🎻

Here's your chance to join us at one of our weekly practice sessions. You will have the chance to play with a friendly bunch of fellow musicians as we rehearse some of our current repertoire.

💻 Register via our website - https://www.lisburncommunityorchestra.com/comeandplay

🗺️ Lisburn Cathedral Hall

📆 Thursday 25th September 2025

🕰️ 7:15pm

Our 'Come and Play' event is an opportunity to join us at one of our weekly practice sessions. You will meet a friendly bunch of fellow musicians in a relaxed atmosphere and get a chance to play along with some of our current repertoire. No commitment, free of charge and great fun !

19/09/2025

“Cloud Surfing into Oslo” taken on a flight from Dublin - my entry to the ! There’s only 5 days left to enter!

Don’t forget to enter! All you need to do is make sure you are following Pooleys, share your best aviation photography and tag in the post and use hashtag

You can enter as many times as you like.

The winning entry will receive:

✈️A £250 Pooleys Gift voucher plus a Pooleys 2026 Flight Guide package

✈️Will be featured on the front cover of the Winter 25/Spring 26 Pooleys Catalogue

✈️The winner plus 11 runners up will also be featured in the 2026 Pooleys Calendar and will receive a free copy.

Please share with your fellow pilots, the competition runs until September 24th 2025 so last few days!

Please note: This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with, Instagram GOOD LUCK!

19/09/2025

Day 2 of my colour-blind giveaway campaign! 👀🎨
Today I’m posting a couple of Ishihara plate images (the classic colour-blindness test you’ve probably seen before). If you struggle to see the numbers in these, you might just be the person I’m looking for…

I’m giving away 2 pairs of colour-blind sunglasses:

🕶️ One worldwide winner (shipped to you*)
🕶️ One Northern Ireland winner (who I’ll meet in person to try the glasses together!)

How to enter:
1️⃣ Comment “colourblind” + your location below
2️⃣ Drop me a DM so I can reach you
3️⃣ Take the EnChroma colour-blindness test (top of enchroma.com) and keep your result

* EnChroma glasses work for about 8 in 10 people with colour blindness, not everyone, and results vary.
* Colour-blind people do see colour, usually around 10% of the reds/greens others see.
* The glasses aren’t a “cure” or “full correction” but can make a big difference.
*
If you’re colour-blind and want in — comment + DM me today! 🕶️🔥

11/08/2025

Calling all people who are colourblind! I want to meet you and give you the gift of colour! I’m based in Northern Ireland, if you are too, then get in touch!

Next month is International Colourblindness Awareness Month and I’ve partnered up with to generate awareness for colour blindness and its effects.

I want you to try out the Enchroma glasses! Entirely for free! PLUS: everyone I meet to try the glasses will go into a draw to WIN a pair of Enchroma colourblind sunglasses!

So DM me today! Let’s blow up September full of colour for some lucky people to experience the Enchroma gift of colour!

Terms and Conditions:

- Must NOT wear or need prescription glasses for other vision issues besides reading or driving (wearing contact lenses is fine).

- Must take EnChroma’s color blindness test at the top of enchroma.com. EnChroma will ask the winner to email their result to EnChroma to confirm they’re color blind.

- Must agree to be filmed and have their reaction to trying the glasses the first time posted on social media.

26/07/2025

Pilot Ethan at the controls this week taking off on a flight to Navan! Ethan’s a regular in the skies of Northern Ireland flying the Ikarus C42 a lot of the time! In this video he talks through his take off checklists as he takes us into the sky!

27/05/2025

Airbus A319 G-EUOE taxiing at BHD for departure to LHR on 27th May 2025. Slightly smaller than the A320, BA operates 26 of these aircraft mostly based from Heathrow Airport. Photo taken on the ramp whilst boarding an EasyJet A319.

01/04/2025

JOIN THE RAF AIR CADETS! Don’t think, just do it - thank me later! What a day today visiting 13 AEF at the Royal Air Force ! I am blown away by the opportunities available for these incredible young people. The flying is of course amazing, but there’s so much more to it as well! If you’ve a young person in your family who you think might enjoy getting out, building life skills, plus doing some flying (for free!) - sign them up ASAP!

Please DM me if you need any help in reaching out to your local Squadron. I’d be happy to help ensure that people can achieve the opportunity to where possible!

Thank you very much to 13 AEF having me down today! much appreciated!

07/03/2025

Thank you everyone who tuned in this week! It was the best week ever! We loved filming it, the crazy thing is nothing is scripted - what you saw was what we were really like - all just chatting a load of rubbish most the time!

Time to go watch it again I think!

07/03/2025

I’ve been full of surprises apparently, but the best is still yet to come (in my opinion anyway!) It’s the final day of this week’s in Belfast! You can always rely on a week in Belfast to be chaos - it’s been amazing!

3 points of clarification - no those were not my school shoes,… I’m not 12…, and yes - I’ve NEVER had cheesecake!

What’s been your favourite moment this week? Let me know? Place your bets for the winner! It’s tight between Donna and Andrea, but can I cook up a soaring score? Find out tonight!

05/03/2025

Have you spotted me on Come Dine With Me this week? What a week it has been so far!

This experience was the most crazy experience I’ve ever done. It was exhausting but incredible! My group I was in was chaos, you might have realised that from the show! We bonded really well it the conversations were flowing! So much that we talked about didn’t make the TV of course!

What did you think of us this week? Do let me know!

03/03/2025

Did you spot me on Come Dine With Me tonight? Well there’s another 4 nights this week - let’s go! ✈️

If you were watching Channel 4 this evening you might have spotted a familiar airfield!

Our member James is taking part in Come Dine with Me all this week. Tune in to see how he gets on cooking up a storm! (he might even get a job running the club BBQ this year!)

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/come-dine-with-me/on-demand/75520-021

21/07/2024

I’m not normally a big military aircraft fan - but RIAT 2024 was a fantastic experience! I’ll definitely go again. I’m keen to go to Farnborough Airshow again too and see more civilian aviation. If you were at RIAT this year I hope you had a fantastic time. It was also awesome to get to meet lots of you who came to say hi!