I realise that we're talking about a previously occurred event now, but a word for the uninitiated about Sandown.
I've flown in there a couple of times (not within the last 5 years), so am not current on catering facilities and quality of serving fillies
, but seems like it's still quite good.
If you are flying into Sandown to land on 05, you have to overfly the edge of Sandown town, which can be a little off-putting (I was U/T at the time). Departure from 05 has caused at least one aircraft (PA28) that I know of that was on weight/balance limits to drag its undercart through the trees at the end of the runway and end up parked in them (fortunately no injuries). The runway has a marked uphill slope and when the grass is wet.......
Make sure you do your weight / balance and compensate for the slope / grass runway in your performance calcs before using Sandown!!
Don't wish to put a downer on Sandown (it's a nice friendly little strip) - just exercise a degree of caution (which we *all* do of course!!!
).