I have caught up with your last posts on this topic and would comment as follows;
I can see that FFF is perhaps a little put out that a slur might be inferred towards the field that he perhaps does his flying from. Good of you to defend it, I would mine.......most of the time.
However, the inference that I was perhaps not anticipating the local antics does not hold much sway with me. If I'm prepared to get in a plane on any given day, I make sure I'm up to it.
This chap was in possession of VHF, yet chose not to Tx until it suited him - i.e. when he informed me not to backtrack as he WAS landing. I may have been a little more aware of his location and intentions had he bothered to press the Tx switch downwind or frankly at any time prior to when he did.
I have been to aerodrome in question before. I was carrying an uptodate plate of the field and I do read the remarks entries carefully. I do check notams.
I have the AIP loaded on this P.C. and have just looked at EGS! a few minutes ago.
You're not wrong FFF - didn't anyone have time to provide any more pertinent information...
In support of my initial comment about vacating the runway due length of grass - N.B. UK AIP entry states that airfield maybe difficult to locate from certain directions "due to crops".
A question for you FFF, just in case I return in a plane with the Sharpshot logo on the tail
if departing runway 06, what is the local taxy procedure to get to the thr. for departure?
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YES and if you don't believe it.........
Most accidents happen during the landing or T/O phase. Do you recall the Pan Am 707 that tried landing on a fishing fleet at Pago Pago. Irrelevant you might say, but how often do pilots get disorientated even approaching their base airfield - I can recall several incidents that were potentially disastrous, but I would never air them on a public forum.