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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Which Aerodrome Mk III
Not Spain.
Not Switzerland, either.
bri,
Of course, it's Cowley. If anyone would get it, I suspected it would be you.
The Rocky Mountain lee-waves at Cowley are particularly strong, since the 15 nm long Livingstone Range has 4000' of relief on the downwind side:
The picture is from Cowley; Canada's Diamond mine. For anyone interested in wave-flying, this site is worth a look.
I particularly recommend http://www.soaring.ab.ca/Stalking%20...ain%20Wave.pdf
Cowley airfield was built in 1938 as an emergency landing ground for TCA's Electras. A weather station was built there too, hence the YY designation. Today it is the only YY airfield that is grass and does not have any commercial traffic.
I spent many idyllic days there over the years, towing , instructing and wave-flying, including a Diamond altitude. Chief Tow Pilot's briefing one day "The rotor is not rough unless the tow-plane gets rolled inverted."
cuefaye,
Why do you feel it is pointless? If it really is, from your point of view, then don't click on the link.
Of course, it's Cowley. If anyone would get it, I suspected it would be you.
The Rocky Mountain lee-waves at Cowley are particularly strong, since the 15 nm long Livingstone Range has 4000' of relief on the downwind side:
The picture is from Cowley; Canada's Diamond mine. For anyone interested in wave-flying, this site is worth a look.
I particularly recommend http://www.soaring.ab.ca/Stalking%20...ain%20Wave.pdf
Cowley airfield was built in 1938 as an emergency landing ground for TCA's Electras. A weather station was built there too, hence the YY designation. Today it is the only YY airfield that is grass and does not have any commercial traffic.
I spent many idyllic days there over the years, towing , instructing and wave-flying, including a Diamond altitude. Chief Tow Pilot's briefing one day "The rotor is not rough unless the tow-plane gets rolled inverted."
cuefaye,
Why do you feel it is pointless? If it really is, from your point of view, then don't click on the link.
Last edited by India Four Two; 15th Mar 2013 at 01:37.
I think this is a SUPERB thread. Highly interesting and keeping alive the memory of airfields both in the present and those long gone (but not forgotten), as well as those which are officially 'disused' but through the diligence of enthusiastic aviators, still experience some sort of activity.
If cuefaye wants to be a miserable git, let him, it won't affect my enthusiasm for the thread.
If cuefaye wants to be a miserable git, let him, it won't affect my enthusiasm for the thread.
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On behalf of the lurkers, I think it is a superb thread with lots of interesting nostalgia and sleuthing involved. Long may it prosper!
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List updated up to and including 18 March 2013
List updated today up to and including 18 March 2013. Unfortunately the Mods in their wisdom have decided that this thread should no longer be a "Sticky". I will endeavour to try to keep it on the same page.
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