maz,
Well done.
Sleap is a b***** to find, as you say. A few hints...find the lakes at Ellesmere, and go from there, look out for Wem, a largish village just outside the circuit, if coming from the south, go to Shrewsbury then head north. As for Shawbury controllers, remember that they train new controllers there, so the standard of THEIR RT varies incredibly! Some are very prfessional, some absolutely hopeless...or incomprehensible. Just keep telling the latter to say again till they learn to speak English. Talking of which, I'm just back from a ten day flying trip to France, half of it solo, and understanding French controllers can be.........impossible!!!!! More later; I may start a thread on it when I've time and energy; I'm suffering at the moment from......too much flying, would you believe? Not that I'm complaining; it was a great trip.