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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).

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Old 8th Oct 2017, 09:03
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A bit further away than that!!
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 09:22
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Ostend - or Oostende?
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 11:02
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Well done that man!!!

I was amzed to see it handles DC-10 and AN-124's..............

Over to you
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 11:17
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Thanks - the best I can manage right now:

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Old 8th Oct 2017, 11:53
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New Zealand?
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 12:31
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Perhaps a bit nearer to Europe, Spain?

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Europe yes, but not Spain.
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 13:18
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Somewhere on Sardinia?
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Sorry - should have said mainland Europe.
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 13:46
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Those look like Italian markings on the hulks in the foreground left. Italian Alps I reckon. I'm going for Aosta. Even though I'm not even sure there is an airfield there
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 13:47
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Aosta LIMW?

Open House if correct
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 13:48
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Bugger - Jensdad beat me by 15 seconds..................
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Aosta it is - I guess jensdad has it.
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 14:38
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I recognised the landscape as I passed through Aosta on the train a few years back. Had no idea there was an airfield there! Is that an old Italian Air Force C-54 lying there in bits?


Open House (or should I say 'Casa Aperta' / 'Maison Ouverte'?)
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Old 8th Oct 2017, 17:59
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Originally Posted by jensdad
Those look like Italian markings on the hulks in the foreground left.
That and the terrain is what led me to guess Sardinia. Admittedly it's more like Corsica but that comes under French 'rule' (until they have THEIR referendum 'cos they hate the French)
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Old 10th Oct 2017, 01:37
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Nowhere near Italy. I've paxed out of here twice and landed once.
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Old 10th Oct 2017, 02:04
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As it's you, I42, I'm gonna say Canada? I appreciate that, if correct, that doesn't narrow it down a great deal
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Aha, got you! Hook, line and sinker.

Contrary to popular belief, it does snow south of the 49th parallel.
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Old 10th Oct 2017, 06:31
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Indeed but look at the neat snow clearance - footpaths, roads etc etc - so somewhere that gets a lot of snow often and is totally set up for it.

Pretty flat so maybe Wisconsin - ish....................
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Yes, they’re certainly setup for snow, but it’s not Wisconsin. Much further south.
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