50 thou aviation overlay question
Avoid imitations
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I used the Frensham Pond landing site some years ago. Unless it’s been altered, beware that what appears to be the actual pad is in fact a circular rose bed! Thankfully the scratches on the paint polished out….. 
What made me even more surprised was the adjacent grass microlight strip a couple hundred metres away, which would have been far more suitable to land on. It wasn’t marked on the chart back then!
What made me even more surprised was the adjacent grass microlight strip a couple hundred metres away, which would have been far more suitable to land on. It wasn’t marked on the chart back then!
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Yes, sorry. Mystery over….it is indeed an H…but the wire overlay and other clutter made it look very like an N, honest. Even my copilot thought so, but we did have a combined age of over 110, and the light was poor, and I didn’t have my glasses, and the screen was dirty, and….anyway, sorry!
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I used the Frensham Pond landing site some years ago. Unless it’s been altered, beware that what appears to be the actual pad is in fact a circular rose bed! Thankfully the scratches on the paint polished out…..
What made me even more surprised was the adjacent grass microlight strip a couple hundred metres away, which would have been far more suitable to land on. It wasn’t marked on the chart back then!
What made me even more surprised was the adjacent grass microlight strip a couple hundred metres away, which would have been far more suitable to land on. It wasn’t marked on the chart back then!
