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Old 1st Jan 2013, 07:32
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You're thinking of Stony Ridge which I think might be closed now, I think it's now a vineyard, It is/was to the west of the one that's in use now which is Reeve.

I've been into both, Stony Ridge was interesting but not difficult, even took off a few times to the north (uphill), well the first half is up hill, If I recall correctly if you had 40 knots by the time you got to the flat top half you were good to go if not you had room to stop. All landings were to the north from memory.

Reeve has some anal neighbours at the northern end hence the dog leg approach.

Reeve appears to be the much better (safer) strip of the two but has had more mishaps that I know of than Stony Ridge ever had. Perhaps a case of Stony ridge being taken more seriously than Reeve. They both can have some particularly nasty windshear etc. Reeve probably more so than Stoney Ridge.
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