Chicken House: Croydon is in Surrey, lol. Might be a Greater London Borough but in Surrey it is. Lived in South Croydon for 15 years!!
Captain Kremmen: fit a fuel pump and not only becomes a Group A you even get an extra 30kg for MTOW. Wonder if added another layer of paint and could callsign G-XXXX heavy, haha.
Performance speeds in a Eurostar no different, or not much, from a C150. Not as though Easy fly into Biggin. Think it's more snobbery.
Have found Andy Shaw (paragliding instructor) and GreenDragons at Warren Barn Farm on Warlingham/Woldringham border. 700M but a field so could be a bit too soggy.
And typically the wx is mucking it all up.... days and days of lovely flying wx and now +RA possible TS. May have to drive it after all.
But thank you all for your help.
Ought to have a "AIR-STIPS" section