Originally Posted by chevvron
trying to identify the airfield.
From the height the geezer in the ultralight went round, he could identify the type of beer HF nearly spilt all over himself when he saw the goings on - for the record, a very nice pint of Spitfire.
Seriously, it could have been tears before bedtime as another a/c started rolling on 25 as the visitor decided to go round on 29. Disappointed it didn't stop to tell his side of the story - WW is a/g, so in principle and practice arriving and departing pilots can use any available runway, but to choose other than the nominated active without telling anybody, generally raise blood pressure and then just to hoof off is bordering on rudeness. WW has lots of non-radio traffic, and it all generally goes very smoothly, so I wouldn't buy this particular punter being non-radio as a mitigating factor.
Famous last words though....one of the assembled company this afternoon at WW is a Hawk instructor, and has a great story about a mate doing his QFI checkride on the Tucano....detailed to land at Shawbury, the poor sod had actually rolled to a stop at Sleap before the examiner in the back told him the bad news......