Cheers all for your comments!
MikeJ,
Yeah we soon cottoned on that if we were going to get down at all then we needed to do a nice steep fast app. It was good fun, I’v never been over the numbers at around 100Kts in a 172 before!
Cheers Spiney Norman. We had no Problem with the Congleton entry into the zone, we were expecting it. On our way out we were told that we could make an early turn west anyway back to Blackpool so that helped us out too.
As FFF says, I’m quite sure that you guys have better things to be doing than letting us trundle around on your airfield but it was a great experience! I learned an awful lot too, and I hope that the write up will help any other people going in to Manchester to be that little bit more prepared to make it all run smoothly.
Thats a good photo EL, i made sure that i got some good ones to! (well, FFF was the official photographer!
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Thanks once again!
Stu