Can you remember the ICAO for Leavesden, please?

[Captain Tobias Wilcox]

Can anyone remember the ICAO four-letter designator for Leavesden, please?

Thank you if you can!

[Air Driven Generator]

My magic book of spells shows EGTI

[Buzzoff]

Well, you have caused a stir in Buzzoff House, tonight!

Aah, Leavesden, I sighed - did my IR training there, so into the old boxes I go trying to find an old Pooleys - found all sorts, photos, very large (dead) spider (embarrassing girlish yelp at that one) and have looked in all the old logbooks - to no avail. Now the place looks as if a large helicopter has passed slowly through - good job there isn't a Mrs Buzzoff, because I would probably now be out on my ear.

Thanks, pal! - and by the way, how is 'Coconut Airways'?

[B17 PLT]

Breaks my heart to fly over it now with the guts torn out of it. Hope the old Mosquito hangars have been listed to prevent wanton destruction.

[Captain Tobias Wilcox]

Thank you all for your replies. It breaks my heart, too, especially remembering that it was a good, safe, airport with a decent runway - and of course it closed leaving the likes of Elstree as the alternative!!

Happy days, indeed, and I am glad to have jogged my buzzzy friend's memory. Things are fine here, by the way, as we have found a more satisfactory method of securing the company emblem in the flight deck overhead, and thus bumps on the 'bonce' are fewer and further between!

;) ;) ;)

[Buzzoff]

Well, I reckon that's one of the best handles on PPRuNe. Still going to Barbados? Doing ID90s by any chance?.........!!

:)

[Captain Tobias Wilcox]

Yes, still serving Barbados - we did attempt to launch an Ibiza route last year, as part of the marketing for which we commissioned a new version of the company theme song from a popular 'teen' beat combo.

Sadly, on arrival of our first service to the Island, the crew (who had only heard of it through this ditty) mis-pronounced the name of the island so badly that ATC denied permission to land.

That's life, I guess. I'll pass on your compliments to Mr and Mrs Wilcox, my folks (not Brian though.....!)