Auxtank gets the banana - Florennes it is.

Just beaten to it ExAscoteer.

Happy for ExAscoteer to have the victory as going out for a bit now. (how do I make that not sound sleezy)

Or OH if he doesn't want it.

Florennes?

Bah, too late...………. slow update on my display

Blimey - are you not fibre ?

Fibre, yes - but for some obscure reason, the posts from around 1500 did not show until after my submission. Hence I added line 2.

How weird.

I have nothing to hand so OH.

Need big sleeve.

From my sleeve, quiet little place where I once slept in my cockpit while adverse weather prevailed.https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bd91885443.jpg

Looks distinctly and deliberately out of the way.

Are we in the US of A?

Helipad markings look american.

Deliberately out of the way behind the wire. Not in USA, and indeed thereabouts not very united at all.

Not very united at all could mean Spain.

Cyprus then?

United Arab Emirates? Terrain would seem to fit.

Looks like they're only interested in helos these days as no rubber on either end.

And looking at the tilt on GE suggests a bl**dy short runway anyway.

Mediterranean ?

I'm wondering if it's a drone operating site.

London Gatwick ?

Doesn't look like it.

(takes a bow)

Further in to the East maybe -

I gave away too much, and one of you picked up the clue. A lot of negative answers which I will cover in 45 minutes.

Breath suitably bated.

I'm sure we are east Med or in to sandpit territory.

As usual - I could be almost completely wrong.

Not Spain, UAE, or Sandpit. Drones? Not in my day back in 1993, only Drones then were in P J Wodehouse. Yes it was tight, wire at Northern end, but I operated empty to the main field. That much for the negatives.

Turkey maybe.

Delighted to state not Turkey. My first visit, to family home nearby, 1963 by DH106, final departure 767 in 1993. In the interim, in the local area, HP67, B101, Type 175, HS780, VC10, C130, BN2T. I think that is it. Please note that so far I am dealing solely with the negatives. Five airfields involved.

Does it get cold in the winter there ?

Current temperature locally 4 to 7. I have seen snow.

Now for positives. Yes to Eastern Med., I am sure that my next positive answer may not be necessary.

Of course, yes to Cyprus sorry you were last Chev.

Are we close to the Cyprus buffer zone ?

Looking at map, response soon.

Kingsfield?

Doesn't look like Larnaca, Pafos, Nicosia or Akrotiri. So it must be Dhekelia?

I fear that the only buffer zone with which I am familiar was in the 1963 dust--up when the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia became unavailable due to the division of hat city. Will it help if I state that village names close to this strip represent both sides of the division? The operator of the strip appears to express impartiality.

Jensdad wins with Dhekelia, where I kept my machine while operating at Kingsfueld. Sorry if a bit disjointed ce soir, water supply problems. House, not mine, and now fixed.

Thank you Jenkins, and to others who did all the hard work narrowing it down to Cyprus :)
Open House!

Nice one Jenkins. Sorry about water shortage...well played in any case.

Auxtank arrived home after his afternoon outing to find the Postman had delivered new ring-bound updated info.

So for a change a new angle on things...

I've Blurred the pertinent info but left the essentials.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8d06adecd4.jpg

And this is what a thoroughly unstabalised final looks like in to 27

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d25b2f78be.jpg

Back zulu UK in the morning. Good night all.

Alarmingly good TheiC

OH is called

...and the approach doesn't look too bad. A touch of right cyclic to regain the centreline, of course.

That's an understatement! :eek:

Obviously not a fast-jet man.