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Old 17th Jun 2011, 19:37
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AdamFrisch
 
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First time I went to Damyns Hall I got caught out by the power lines at the threshold and had to go around. They're in the worst possible place.

Maypole is hard to find and short-ish, but not really a problem.

Lydd can be hard to spot until you're more or less on top of it, but it's a nice and easy airfield. I also never manage to spot Headcorn for some reason and I always end up flying right over it when I planned on going around it. I bet they hate me there. I don't have a gps in the rental I fly there, so it's all a bit wide of target.

For some reason leaving Denham last time in the 152 it felt like those tree's at the end grew a 100ft after liftoff. Don't know what it was that pushed me down, but it was pretty windy that day and might have been some roll of the nearby hill.
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