Fife Glenrothes Airport: Friends & Families' Fly-In, Saturday 4th July
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:
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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...
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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......
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
Last edited by atceng : 3rd July 2009 at 10:14.
Reason: afterthoughts
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!!!
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.
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....
Last edited by Unusual Attitude : 5th July 2009 at 00:46.
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...
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!!!
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.
Last edited by Unusual Attitude : 5th July 2009 at 00:40.
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.
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