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Old 22nd August 2001 | 12:08
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poetpilot
 
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oh and another thing. 500-700 feet past the numbers for touchdown point? At Barton that puts you a third of the way down our biggest runway. On 32 probably 2/3rds !!! Gulp.

Saw a student pilot once on his qualifying from Liverpool try that. He didnt go back to Liverpool by air that night. The 172 looked like an X-fighter after it had gone through the hedge. Nice bit of forward sweep.

You are using airliner/combat plane figures for light aircraft & light aircraft airfields here and they are just not appropriate for the UK and for small single engined planes.

You'll be ok if you stick to large concrete areas - and you're quite lucky in France of course, because they get local subsidies to build mega fields in the middle of nowhere, with all the facilities.
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