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Old 20th May 2012, 11:15
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peterh337
 
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I have never flown to Deanland but have been there by car.

They were not keen on visitors, especially in "big" planes which is basically PA28/C172 or bigger Noise / NIMBY reasons, as usual. My TB20 was absolutely banned (and anyway the runway is too short, in most conditions, for it).

The runway is short but any pilot with a PPL should know how to work out whether a runway is OK for his aircraft.

A C172 is fine for Deanland but you cannot come in at 85kt and hope to bleed the speed away gradually You have to treat this as a max performance landing, and takeoff.

A number of people from my locality seem to have pranged their planes at Deanland.

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