Fife Glenrothes Airport: Friends & Families' Fly-In, Saturday 4th July

[Scott Diamond]

Fife Glenrothes Airfield Fly-In, Saturday 4th July

Just to let you all know of the Fly-In this Saturday at Fife Airport (EGPJ), in Scotland. Free landing fees, aircraft on display, interesting visitors & a BBQ. Here's from the website:

We hope that you can join us either to help run the event or to come along and enjoy the great weather and all the activity at the airfield.

The open day is for all aviators and their friends & families and all are welcome to join us. There is NO LANDING CHARGE so tell any non-Fife pilots to get an aircraft and come and visit us. We will have various activities throughout the day to keep kids young and old occupied such as:

Aircraft Ground Displays - Aircraft will be out the hangars for visitors to view, we also hope to have some interesting aircraft flying in.

Kids entertainment - Various activities to keep the kids amused such as a bouncy castle and various amusing "village fete" type games.

Flight Sims - We hope to have a triple monitor Flight Sim system running with head tracking software...come and try it out. Also we should have a Radio Control sim so come and see how easy/hard it is to fly an RC plane.

Full BBQ/Restaurant and licensed bar. (Alcohol can only be consumed in the usual public areas such as the Tipsy Nipper and out by the public picnic table area).

We wil no doubt have some interesting aircraft fly in but as this is NOT an Air Display we do not know who will fly in or what they might decide to do overhead...

I will update this first post as more information is available, in the meantime if you are able to assist us in running the day please post below or let a member of the committee know by emailing info[at]fifeflyingclub.co.uk or contact Alan, the Chairman, on chairman[at]fifeflyingclub.co.uk.

PLEASE tell your non-Fife based friends and aviators to join us. The sun will be shining...

[atceng]

Does anyone know when this shindig starts,or will you have to kill me after telling me?

atceng

[cats_five]

Please be aware that Glenrothes is close to the Portmoak gliding site, which is one of the most active in the UK. It is marked on the chart, please make sure you are aware of it. Hopefully Glenrothes can provide further advice if necessary.

Most launches at Portmoak are by winch and flying into a wire is very dangerous so do NOT overfly the airfield.

[140KIAS]

Im reliably informed that it's 11-4. Although you will be welcome at anytime but the burgers mind be a bit rare.

[Scott Diamond]

11-4 was the info I've been given but standard A/G times & free landing fee's throughout the day. I hear also the holding point markings have been given a fresh paint in time for the fly-in... lol.

[atceng]

Thanks for the info gentlemen.
T/O EGPG 15:30 too late to fly in so early surface xport and bike from end of lane,anticipating car park full (hopefully).Will need that hamburger before pedalling back upwind.

atceng

[140KIAS]

atceng

I dont think the're anticipating a big local turnout so car park should be fine. Plenty of overspill anyway. Weather still a big question mark. Hopefully see you there anyway ?

140k

[fisbangwollop]

I'll be on duty at Scottish Info 119.875mhz......give us a call on the way in or out just to make me jelous.......have a great day to you all that manage to get there......:ok:

[atceng]

Metcheck,taf,synop, seaweed,who knows,but a light crosswind looks prob.so should be interesting watching the experts.:)
(really just a bit of trivia to put the thread to the top)
Not sure about fisbang 'all that manage to get there',veiled crit of navigational skills?;)

atceng

[140KIAS]

Thanks for the support ATCENG. Looks like the weather is going to be kinder than initially forecast. Fingers crossed for a good turnout.

[fisbangwollop]

ATCENG......no veiled crit at all......I mean those that can manage to escape cutting the grass or spending the day in IKEA with SWMBO....right now I am off in the huff!!!:=

[atceng]

fbw
OK, come Sat afternoon after 'pass your message' I'm going to be so pedantically complete that the only supplementary you can procedurally ask is 'when did you last see your father?'.:)

Flying club
All the best to Glenrothes/Fife or whatever they are calling it this week for good weather and attendance,even if they wouldn't let me register on their website.:{

atceng

[Unusual Attitude]

If all goes according to plan you might even get to see all 4 Scottish based Tipsy Nippers putting in an appearence, possibly even in formation....! If there's a strong wind that should entertain the crowds for about 5 mins as we fly the length of the runway !

I do love my Nipper but by god its no speed machine....

[140KIAS]

The sun is shining, fingers crossed it holds. Looking forward to seeing all the Nippers.

[fisbangwollop]

Hope you have a great day guys....I am on duty at Scottish Info at 1300....look forward to speaking to some of you on your way in or out......have a great day...:ok:

[Captain Smithy]

Well how did it go then folks? Weather wasn't half cracking today :ok:

Smithy

[fisbangwollop]

I certainally spoke to a few inbound to the field today whilst on duty at Scottish....the Nipper being one!!...hope it all went well....maybe next time I could come over on my bicycle!!!:ok:

[Unusual Attitude]

A very good day out indeed with all 4 Nippers making it along, think thats got to be the most ever at Fife!

Wasnt me you spoke to however as I only had a 15min flight over from Perth so just chopped straight to Fife, that'll have been Paul on his way back to Inverness.

[CRX]

Twas me 'Fisbang' (hence my 'speak to you online' ;-) )
A good day had by all I think. Pics uploaded to 'Tipsynipper.com' for those interested.
I will try to put one on here... If I can see how.

Cheers all.

Paul.
G-NIPR.

[fisbangwollop]

CRX......Thanks for that glad you had a good trip...from one Paul to another Paul.:ok:

[fisbangwollop]

CRX....when u not in the Nipper you still with HWY????

[CRX]

Fis,
Negative, switched to 'Jersey' on the DH8D still out of INV,
do you also take 127.275, or 126.3? If so speak to you next week...

CRX.

[Crash one]

Yes, Good day had by all.
fisbangwollop, thanks for your traffic info, I'm the Emeraude with the not very good transmitter, flat battery.

[fisbangwollop]

CRX......no just the FIR 119.875....that said if your heading back to PE from the south and you want early weather without the drag of listening to volmet give me a call and will oblige....should get you at Dash levels anywhere north of manchester!!:ok:

[140KIAS]

Excellent day, weather was very good. Many thanks to all who attended. About 40 visitors and nearly 200 movements by all accounts. Hope everyone had a good time.

[Scott Diamond]

Fantastic fun, many thanks to the Spitfire, tippsy nippers' and Dave Cryster & Alec Hastings and everyone else who flew in.

Hope to see you all again when the LAA fly-in on the 15th of August!