We would quite often get dropped off by Crabair Pumas in a field adjacent to Luftwaffe air bases after their closing hours. Apparently RAF didn't have the right to land in closed Luftwaffe fields, but could land anywhere in Germany in farmers fields...

We sometimes used to just cut through the perimeter fence to save walking around to the main entrance - another well earned BAOR privilege!

PPRuNe Pop, I so totally made that story up :ok:

ShyTorque, as a matter of personal interest, when was that?

TrimStab, when the Chinooks were new they did a drop off of some guy at I think Speke, as it was unauthorised and they knew they would get stung for landing fees, they circumvented it by hover taxying up to the apron, the guy jumped out and they threw his bag down to him, they then hover taxied out and departed, sure enough a bill arrived and they refused to pay it stating they never landed at Speke.... They had to after checking concur :E

I heard rumours that a certain Staish at EGDL, a Nav by trade, managed to convince his crew to land at a major international Turkish Airport. As opposed to the nearby military (destination) airfield. Rumour further said that a quick taxi round, lift and then landing at destination allowed all concerned to ignore the howler. You have to wonder why the pilot didn't notice all the civvy jets.

Smudge

Spent three years in India ('42 - '45). No ATC, land where you like, but have to buzz any pedestrians/bullock carts/elephants/water buffaloes/camels/goats etc off the strip first. Them were the days !

D.

Indeed Smudge.

I was there at the destination of Ankara Akinsi, having brought the lead aircraft in.

The following day, as we were preparing to depart for Incirlik, we were amazed to see the Staish's Albert overfly us inbound to Ankara International!

Oh how we laughed...

Ex Ascoteer,

Would have loved to have been your GE on that one! I think I first heard of it whilst doing a tanker rotation to MPA. I seem to remember we were stuck in Rio awaiting the weather clearance for MPA. Blimey, wasn't it a hard life.

Smudge:oh:

A very long time ago........ must have been about 28 or 29 years ago.... Ooer, I suddenly feel rather old! :8

ShyTorque, Still about 12 yrs after my time at Shawbury :sad:

BEags, the miscreant was Wally Black (OC2 Sqn IIRC); he was taking some aeros trophy to Shawbury on his own and made all the right calls to Shawbs but landed at Sleap.

Reminded me that a number of Valley QFIs back then had colours as names:

Wally Black
Derek Brown
Merv Green

Toodle pip ;)

Indeed I do .... but to be fair he didn't do too badly for a Buccaneer back seater!:ok: