Lowest Airfield in the UK

[gsora]

There is a thread about the highest AIRFIELD in the UK but who claims the lowest (discounting the SEA!)?

Mine Rufforth (York) 65` amsl Home of York Gliding centre

[Blink182]

Clear winner Marshfield............... - 6 feet

[TheOddOne]

Rufforth is positively an altiport compared with Fenland at 6' and Barra which is technically 5' AMSL but is submerged at high tide!

TheOddOne

[Them thar hills]

Blink
It's Marshland, not Marshfield ;)

[DBisDogOne]

What about Southport beach? Or doesn't that count? Have they succeeded in reopening it?

[kms901]

Proper airfields, not beaches > Shoreham is at 27ft, Caernarvon must be about the same.

[soay]

For airfields with a hard runway, Shoreham would take some beating, at 7 ft.

[ChampChump]

Stoke Airfield (Kent) at 5' rates - er - highly - in the list.


Why do I get the odd feeling this thread will be followed by more of the widest/narrowest/curliest/highest trees/lowest cables variety?

[Whirlybird]

Proper airfields, not beaches

Barra IS a proper airfield - it's licensed, has scheduled flights to it, and FISOs directing you on the ground. How much more proper do you want? Who said anything about the runway surface?

[combineharvester]

Sandtoft - 11ft, coincidentally the approximate depth of some of the potholes..

[C-dog]

Combineharvester, given your location I'm surprised you don't mention Dundee at 17ft or Dornoch at 3ft.

[READY MESSAGE]

AIP gives Caernarfon @ 14 ft, Southern half mil chart gives it as 1 ft. Take your pick!

[jonkil]

Clear winner Marshfield............... - 6 feet

I can really see some students mixing up their qfe/qnh at that one !

[Cpt_Pugwash]

Admittedly, only used for gliding ( at least until 631VGS moved out to Woodvale in 2006), but the grass strip on South Camp at RAF Sealand was only about 10' AMSL.

[fisbangwollop]

The lowest non beach strip in Scotland is Dornoch at 3ft......a great little place to visit once you have avoided getting shot down at Tain range!!!:ok:

[Bluebeard777]

Not quite the UK :} but Newcastle County Wicklow (EINC) has an official elevation of 1 ft, a statistic that those inspecting the runway state in the winter months will find quite accurate.

[tinyjohnston]

On EINC, Using Dublin's QNH it is 50ft below Sea Level......

[Cows getting bigger]

Newtownards at 9ft for all the tarmac runways?

[Genghis the Engineer]

I can really see some students mixing up their qfe/qnh at that one !

Not really, at 29ft/mb, QNH=QFE to the nearest mb.

(And even if you were working to decimal points, you'd never notice on the altimeter anyhow).

G

[FantomZorbin]

South Camp at RAF Sealand was only about 10' AMSL


Strange to tell but Sealand went up & down with the tide ... special arrangements had to be made for setting up INS tables in the MU.

[Bottlehead]

How about Sutton Meadows at 3 ft, microlight pace but with 3 grass runways of 400 metre plus each. good enough for C172 etc.

[Jumbo Driver]

Not really, at 29ft/mb, QNH=QFE to the nearest mb.

I agree Ghengis - but it becomes just slightly more critical (but still not significant) if you use the correct figure of 27.3'/mb (for ISA/MSL).

I expect it was a typo ... or perhaps it was just an "engineering approximation" ... ;)

JD
:)

[Wessex Boy]

Conington is on the top of a hill at the edge of the Fens at 26'

[silverelise]

No actual info to hand but Lydd must be up there (or "down there" as the case may be).

[FlapsFive]

Lydd is a 13 feet according to an out-of-date 1-in-half-million I have to hand...

Fenland, as someone mentioned earlier must be pretty close to the mark (6 feet according to this), but with sea levels apparently rising that could go down!!

[Rightbase]

in Blink182's post. Marshland elevation is minus six feet.

[Munnyspinner]

Barra?

Noted Saab D - thanks. Eleavtion ASML but with greater tidal range than one or two of the 'land based' airfields

[Saab Dastard]

Munnyspinner - please see posts 3 and 9 above.

SD