Lack of airfields
Apart from Valley, Shawbury, Lakenheath.....
Valley and Shawbury? No military helicopters at either!
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Likewise, the Red Arrows make (fairly) regular refuelling and stop-over visits into Farnborough... when one would think that Odiham would make more sense - unless Odiham can't take Hawks any more?
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As a reminder of how many airfields we used to have in Cornwall, there is a Kipper Fleet story of a Shack transmitting abeam downwind at St Eval, finals at St Merryn and landed at St Mawgan. Allegedly.
There was also the West German Noratlas pilot who was flying to St. Mawgan, lined up for a perfect approach to (disused) Portreath, and was shepherded onto the correct airfield by St. Mawgan's GCA controller.
So the story goes, on being asked if he had been to St. Mawgan before, the pilot reportedly said, "Ja, ja, but you vere shooting at me last time!"
So the story goes, on being asked if he had been to St. Mawgan before, the pilot reportedly said, "Ja, ja, but you vere shooting at me last time!"
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Shawbury & Valley no longer operating rotary wing stuff?
Yeah but most 'civvy fields' don't have the intensity of North Sea helicopter traffic that Humberside does and thus aren't approved by the CAA for hot or rotors running re-fuels.
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Staverton , a few weeks ago ... 2 flts of Grobs on navexs from 2 RAF stations. Not enough bases to make x-coutries viable .
Here in Wessex , Pumas , Apaches , Squirrels , Wildcats [ green and blue ] , Blue Dauphin , passing Grob or two . All seem to like our grass strip on an hill . Maybe it's the lunches or the 'gurls'
Last week of C130ks , we had one low pass East to West , wet , gloomy we'd packed up ...... Lights on , wipers slapping time , wings waving , loady doing a star jump in side door . End of the rwy , pushed over and disappeared down into the Vale .
rgds condor .
Here in Wessex , Pumas , Apaches , Squirrels , Wildcats [ green and blue ] , Blue Dauphin , passing Grob or two . All seem to like our grass strip on an hill . Maybe it's the lunches or the 'gurls'
Last week of C130ks , we had one low pass East to West , wet , gloomy we'd packed up ...... Lights on , wipers slapping time , wings waving , loady doing a star jump in side door . End of the rwy , pushed over and disappeared down into the Vale .
rgds condor .
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me thanks condor for description concise of events.
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East Mids still gets some but not as much as when Afghan was at its peak, still get the Saudi Hercs transiting through though ( on the States run I believe.)
(Elton John was due to depart one evening and the FBO told us his party had virtually wrecked their allocated room!)
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Sad to say but as a proportion of the number of aircraft, we probably have more airfields now than we've ever had! In terms of landaway navexes, surely exposure to otherwise unfamiliar civil procedures is a big positive?
when one would think that Odiham would make more sense