Evening all, please forgive the short notice, but I have a request on behalf of my father. He's helping organise a charity fundraising event on Armed Forces Day Saturday 29th June in aid of Help for Heroes. They are hoping to have a helicopter land on site and maybe auction a short flight for charity. The event is at the Jolly Farmer pub in Cliddesden, just South of Basingstoke. It's running from 13.00 hours, all afternoon, there will be refreshments and a BBQ, all free for pilot(s) of course! They are aiming for 100-200 people in attendence.
The landing area is a large, long open wedge-shaped field behind the pub with permission for landing granted by the landowner. The field is in the Odiham MATZ (Odiham Approach 131.300). I've not seen the landing site, but a look on Google Earth shows the field being used for a kite flying event on the day the Google images were taken, and it appears to be large, open, free of obstacles and surrounded by hedges. It is right next to the M3 motorway. Access to the field will be restricted and marshalls will be present to keep public clear of the landing area. The organisers did have an aircraft booked to fly in, but they cancelled at short notice, hence the late nature of this request.
The coordinates of the field are 51.240594,-1.098536 and the grid reference is: SU 63015 49376
It's approximately 1550ft long, 300ft wide at it's narrowest point and 650ft wide at it's widest point.
Anyone flying in would be made enormously welcome and fed as many burgers/hotdogs as they can manage! And of course it's for a good cause.
Any interested parties please do PM me and I can put you in touch with the organisers to discuss it further.
