no excuse
Almost - but not quite I too could have landed at the wrong field - Being a newly qualified PPL and on my first real overland trip from Biggin to Hurn -with the final stage of the trip flying over the New Forest - which I beleive at that time still had two or three disused RAF airfields in close proximity to each other - with the outcome that most will now realise. So there I was giving my circuit position to the Hurn controller who acknowledged each call - placing me somewhere around Nr 3 downwind - (it was many years ago and memory may have lapsed) and only when reporting on base or turning final did the controller realise something was not quite right - and anxiously suggested could I be over Stony Stratford - or the other nearby disused airfield. Realising my mistake
at the 11th hour I had every good reason to be grateful to the Hurn controller that day !
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