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Old 15th October 2003 | 19:48
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Genghis the Engineer
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Or if feeling really ambitious, from one to the other!

Now there's a challenge, the Dusk to Dawn....


However, what I find very annoying is how few UK airfields are open at night - far too many only turn the lights on once a week for a couple of hours night-training - which then most of their pilots find hard to use. I tried to negotiate a landing at about 7pm at Wolverhampton Spaceport last winter - just because I wanted to stop in the vicinity, and they would have charged me a small fortune to keep the lights on. Just one of the reasons why travelling around the UK by air is nothing like so easy as travelling around the US on similar routes where they have sensible innovations like automatic nightlighting. Sorry, got myself all worked up there.

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