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Old 15th Jul 2007, 16:24
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Contacttower
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One very rarely sees situations developing that could be dangerous unlike the circus of a busy A.T.C. airfield that has P.P.L. training taking place along side commercial operations.



I have to say that in my experience A/G airfields are much more challenging; on a busy Sunday afternoon dozens of planes from ultralights to twins wizz round and round all at different speeds, some trying to do glide approaches, some at 600ft, some at 800ft, all trying to land on the same 800m strip of grass, half don't even have radios. Occasionally military aircraft invade the ATZ, there are a mix of crosswind, base and overhead joins, sometimes it does seem like death on every corner. Having been cut up on finals on several occasions by non-radio cubs and the like I rather suspect that A/G airfields are much more dangerous from a traffic spacing point of view.
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