Location for the next fly-in please.........
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From: Brighton. UK. (Via Liverpool).
Location for the next fly-in please.........
Hi all. Your ideas needed please for the next fly-in, due at the end of June, first week of July.
Gives us just over a month to sort something.
I will start with Shoreham of course, both tarmac and grass runways, excellent ATC, not bad food, two 'terminals'!
Gives us just over a month to sort something.
I will start with Shoreham of course, both tarmac and grass runways, excellent ATC, not bad food, two 'terminals'!
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From: Just South of the last ice sheet
I assume you mean Haverfordwest International Airport there Windy_M 
Sounds good to me, haven't been there for ages. Alternatively how about Old Buckenham (grass, tarmac and cardiac-arrest-on-a-plate All Day Breakfast) or have another stab at Elvington?
Sounds good to me, haven't been there for ages. Alternatively how about Old Buckenham (grass, tarmac and cardiac-arrest-on-a-plate All Day Breakfast) or have another stab at Elvington?
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From: Marlow UK
As a matter of interest, how does one recognise fellow pruners at the flyins, do you all wear badges/caps/sweaters.
We (self and wife) flew to from Sywell to Lands End on Sunday, stopping at Dunkeswell on route. We flew back on Monday, stopping at Compton Abbas. When I got back and logged onto this forum I realised that if we had stopped the other way around, we could have met up with some pruners, as you flew to Compton Abbas on Sunday and Dunkeswell on Monday.
Look forward to meeting some of you at the next one, now we have our own plane again.
EddieHeli
Now Flying AA1B G-BBWZ
We (self and wife) flew to from Sywell to Lands End on Sunday, stopping at Dunkeswell on route. We flew back on Monday, stopping at Compton Abbas. When I got back and logged onto this forum I realised that if we had stopped the other way around, we could have met up with some pruners, as you flew to Compton Abbas on Sunday and Dunkeswell on Monday.
Look forward to meeting some of you at the next one, now we have our own plane again.
EddieHeli
Now Flying AA1B G-BBWZ
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From: Belper, Derbyshire, UK
How about Sheffield....
1) While we still can - closing in a couple of years.
2) Pretty much in the centre of the country.
3) Easy to find - follow the M1 or M18.
4) Excellent cafe - fantastic choice of fillings for sandwiches, ciabattas, etc
5) Lots of room for the hundreds of ppruners who'll arrive.
6) I believe there are interesting things to see...if you don't spend too long eating and drinking, as we did.
1) While we still can - closing in a couple of years.
2) Pretty much in the centre of the country.
3) Easy to find - follow the M1 or M18.
4) Excellent cafe - fantastic choice of fillings for sandwiches, ciabattas, etc
5) Lots of room for the hundreds of ppruners who'll arrive.
6) I believe there are interesting things to see...if you don't spend too long eating and drinking, as we did.
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£21.00 to land at Sheffield! A bit on the steep side as I found out last week.
Never been to a fly in yet, but I would like to go, I would of assumed that it would be a small local airfield fly in? Therefore giving the small field much needed custom thus avoiding the larger businesses? Seems more practical? Or it might just be my Yorkshire roots pushing my money grabbing opinions forward?
YYZ
Never been to a fly in yet, but I would like to go, I would of assumed that it would be a small local airfield fly in? Therefore giving the small field much needed custom thus avoiding the larger businesses? Seems more practical? Or it might just be my Yorkshire roots pushing my money grabbing opinions forward?
YYZ
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From: half way between the gutter and the stars.
Sheffield is central as folks have said. I like it 'oop there.
Skegness?? Plenty to do there including buying knock-off goods from the nearby market.
Fenland - new chef does a mean Carvery by all accounts.
Tatenhill/Derby? just 'cause I've never been there.
Breighton? Lots of interesting stuff to see there.
Anywhere where Pilot/Flyer are dishing out free landings.
Skegness?? Plenty to do there including buying knock-off goods from the nearby market.
Fenland - new chef does a mean Carvery by all accounts.
Tatenhill/Derby? just 'cause I've never been there.
Breighton? Lots of interesting stuff to see there.
Anywhere where Pilot/Flyer are dishing out free landings.
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From: Brighton. UK. (Via Liverpool).
Some one mentioned Little Gransden, £5 to land, free if you uplift. It is grass too.
£21 just to land is a bit much for a fly-in.
The cheaper the better really.
Bums on seats as they say...!
£21 just to land is a bit much for a fly-in.
The cheaper the better really.
Bums on seats as they say...!
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From: Smurph Castle
Little Gransden is difficult to find the first time, I think. Or to distinguish from Bourne. Especially because O/H joins are discouraged (if I remember rightly) so you can't even get a good ID of the runway orientation. I found it eventually with my mate on the A/G going 'left a bit, right a bit...' 
On the other hand, it might be quite entertaining if that happens to a prooner!
Unless we all have GPS...
Has Leicester been done yet?
On the other hand, it might be quite entertaining if that happens to a prooner!
Unless we all have GPS...
Has Leicester been done yet?
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From: Old Sarum ish
EddieHeli
To be honest, some of us have known each other for several years now. It's not too difficult for those that haven't met any of us before though - just head for the large group of loud people. Or the person wearing the "Remove before flight" t-shirt.
how does one recognise fellow pruners at the flyins
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I didn't think we'd paid as much as £21 at Sheffield, but I can't remember for certain.
Tatenhill is central, cheap, has a good cafe at weekends, and if I'm instructing, I can hopefully take a break and say hi. And if I'm not booked up in advance, you can have trial helicopter lessons if you like.
Derby is friendly, but has shortish, fairly challenging grass runways....not for all aircrafts or pilots.
Tatenhill is central, cheap, has a good cafe at weekends, and if I'm instructing, I can hopefully take a break and say hi. And if I'm not booked up in advance, you can have trial helicopter lessons if you like.
Derby is friendly, but has shortish, fairly challenging grass runways....not for all aircrafts or pilots.
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From: SX in SX in UK
Penguina!!
Please write out 100 times - Bourn has a N-S concrete runway, Little Gransden has two roughly E-W grass strips.
(Although I have to confess that I've never found it either - another contender for The Invisible Airfield award maybe?)
AB - isn't it time you bought a new T-shirt?
Whirly - short grass runways? I'm starting to like them.
Please write out 100 times - Bourn has a N-S concrete runway, Little Gransden has two roughly E-W grass strips.
(Although I have to confess that I've never found it either - another contender for The Invisible Airfield award maybe?)
AB - isn't it time you bought a new T-shirt?
Whirly - short grass runways? I'm starting to like them.
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From: Europe
Tatenhil is nice with friendly folk but there is no cafe or anything of that ilk afaik.
Leicester has; Old Buck has one too and they do fantastic burgers. Further west is Shobdon with equally pleasing catering facilities. Sleap is nice, to the west and good food.
Anyway I will be good and shut up now, promise I won't come. Last 2 times I went to one I was alone on my own Caernarfon and Coventry.
Ah well, I am used to being unloved
Leicester has; Old Buck has one too and they do fantastic burgers. Further west is Shobdon with equally pleasing catering facilities. Sleap is nice, to the west and good food.
Anyway I will be good and shut up now, promise I won't come. Last 2 times I went to one I was alone on my own Caernarfon and Coventry.
Ah well, I am used to being unloved