PPRuNe Return to Popham Fly-In 29 August.

[Mike Cross]

Hey Mono I might have to do a worst landing there than you...it is after all a proper airfield.

That's a tall order, I trust you realise what you're up against!

I hope to be there lunchtime but almost certainly sans Luscombe as one of the other group members is taking it to Dunkeswell.

Mike

[BRL]

It is looking good for a lunchtime arrival. We will be in a Rans S6.

Will be wearing the famous pprune cap.

[DubTrub]

Being the boring git I am, I made this list from the thread:

BRL
Mono
Genghis
Nr Fairy
HWD
Kolibear
Skydriller
Aerbabe
Cos 211
Bletchlie tuggie
Brooklands
distaff_beancounter
Irv
Barcli
FBS
Whirlybird
Wycombe
Radar
WKW
jon the italian
Mike Cross
..
et moi makes twenty-two?

[Monocock]

That's a tall order, I trust you realise what you're up against!

Mike

I'll try not to replicate my last trip out to Popham...!!Oops



See you all there

[FBS]

Sorry I didn't get a chance to chat more chaps but the BRB (Big Red Bsssstd) wouldn't start and I had to go put some volts in the battery, then the neighbors turned up for flights and and Michael Turner wanted to take a photo of the aforementioned BRB.

Otherwise trips around the houses would have been possible on a let's share out the dinosaurs basis.

Hope you all had a good time and I am sorry about my legs.

FBS

[Whirlybird]

Got up EARLY , checked wx, NOTAMs etc. Looked out of window at VERY low cloud and drizzle, checked wx again. Phoned friend 20 miles south, as too early to phone airfields - wx same. Decided dissipating front hadn't dissipated as much as it was supposed to, and after two days of teaching hovering over the weekend, I didn't fancy a nearly four hour return trip of dodging low cloud and rain, even to see you lot - and I did want to see you lot, really I did!

So I went to Tesco instead.

Hope it was a good fly-in. I haven't been to one for ages, and I will make it to one someday, honestly!!!!

[M14P]

Nice to see some of you there but I was a tad busy so I really didn't get a chance to chat...
Good to see you Koli and some really top notch landings from HWD.
Bye
m

[bletchleytugie]

Had to do a bit of gardening whilst taxing to the hold on the way out - the perils of 17 metres of plastic!. hanks to MIke Cross for the trip in the Luscombe, to Koli for the cakesand to Mrs Monocock for looking after my passenger . Went back to Halton via the edge of the Chilterns to give madam passenger some ridge soaring practice (she'll get a shock when she gets to Sisteron).

Strangley enough we ended up in Tescos as well. Got back to Bicester and ended up doing a ferry run to Membury, the carrot being the opportunity to take a Chipmunk back to Cosford tommorrow

See some you soon again I hope.

Bletchlleytugie and Anna

[High Wing Drifter]

How odd. I ended up stopping off at Tesco for some Pita bread on the way back!

A rather splending afternoon. Really nice to meet and chat with some of you. Obviously whatever Kolibear sacrificed appeased the Weather Gods.

Thanks too to BRL and Genghis for organising

M14P,
Thanks mate Probably unrepeatable!

[DubTrub]

On the way down from oop north, I met up with Monocock , so we decided to arrive in formation. But Luscombes aught to learn not to fly too near cloud; it was a lovely flight.




The foggy cloud dispersed by the time we landed, and the weather was warm enough for lounging around on Popham's grassy knoll...




BRL gave me the pleasure of his company for a ten-minute jaunt over the Hampshire countryside, and he managed very quickly to un-learn PA28 foot rests.




I am sure that most who endeavoured to come did in fact arrive...even if I didn't meet you all.







A great venue with a great welcome (as always, thanks, Popham), and it was my pleasure to meet up again with those of you I already know, and to meet new Prooners for the first time.
Particular thanks to Kolibear and Mrs K for the tea & cakes (happy Birthday again, K!), and well done to Radar and his flying partner for making the trip from Holland.

Rob

[EddieHeli]

Finally made it to a pprune fly-in and met some of the ppruners.
Thanks for the cake Kolibear.

Trip to Popham and back from Sywell, rounded off a nice weekends flying which started with our first trip abroad on Saturday, when we flew to Grimbergen in Belgium, which is inside the Brussels zone, for the AYA fly-in.
We stopped at Calais both ways and met up with the Grumpy Gang. A great bunch who made us feel welcome and treated us like old friends.
My honorary moniker in Grumpy Gang circles now "Grumpy Chopper". Cheers Guys (and Galls) you know who you are (approaching BeachPig indeed!).

Take off from Popham made only slightly hairy by a YAK decending onto us at the hold as he was well to the right of the runway, resulted in my having to take avoiding action, and then my take off accelleration was a bit slow meaning I had to do a zoom climb and turn over 26 to avoid the trees at the end of 21.

Lovely flight back to Sywell and saw loads of traffic so quite a few enjoying the weather.

Cheers

EddieHeli (and Missus)

[Monocock]

What a great day.

Once again, it was good to catch up with everyone although I'm still sure that there were certin people hovering around and not making themselves known!!

It was perfect day for flying and my son loved his trip back. I was slightly concerned when he announced on landing that he hadn't actually eaten his Mini Cheddars on the way home, he had flicked them out of the open window... There is a little trail of mini Cheddars heading NNW from Popham for approximately 25 miles if anyone's peckish



Great to see you all.

P.S Who was the person with the AA1? I wanted to catch up with him but never managed to find out who he/she was.

[Kolibear]

Just like to thank you all for a perfect day. It was actually my 50th birthday, hence the promise to buy tea & cakes. I can't think of a better way to spend a birthday than with friends, flying and with such glorious weather.

Big thank you to Mike Cross who took me up in his Luscombe. This was my first trip in a tail-dragger and I'd like to apologise for my poor taxiing, as in the Koliber, we use the rudders vigourously for taxing but not much during flight. But it was alovely flight, a few gentle aeros and a smooth landing - Mike, you made it look so easy

Mrs K enjoyed herself too, as a non-avaitor she's always a bit apprehensive that she'll be left out, but she had a lovely time.

Hi to M14P - nice to see you again.

We routed back to North Weald via WOD and gave Wycombe a wide berth due to the gliders.

As the put the aircraft to bed, our resident Spitfire whistled down the runway, landed and taxiied past.

To round the day off, we had a couple of drinks with Rallye Driver & Aerbabe outside The Squadron.

[EddieHeli]

Monocock,
That would be me in the AA1 G-BBWZ
EddieHeli

[Mike Cross]

a few gentle aeros

Chandelles are generally not classed as aerobatic (Luscombes not being cleared for aeros in the UK) however they are fun to practice.

The sign language for you have control/I have control seemed to work OK following the passenger's headset failure but I think I have to work on the difference between the pointing signal that means "Fly in that direction" and the identical signal that means "I've just spotted an aeroplane over there coming straight towards us"

Good to meet everyone again. Thaks for the cake Kolibear and many happy returns to Mrs K who I believe has a similar occaison imminent.

[italianjon]

Thanks to all I met.

Wonderful day out!

Thanks for all the advice for my upcoming training.

Looking forward to meeting you all again,

Thanks.

[BRL]

Had a great day yesterday. Started out with a longish drive across Sussex to a farm strip near Heathfield to join Whiskey Kilo Wanderer and his Rans S6. A superb little aeroplane flying out from a grass strip, that is what grass roots flying is all about really isn't it, what a superb way to spend a bank holiday monday.

It was good to meet you all, the old faces and new ones, great to put names to faces etc, I agree with Mono though, I reckon there were people knocking about not saying anything...!

I also had my first trip in a taildragger, DubTrub kindly offered me a ride in his and off we went, he even let me have a go the mad fool!!!! Anyhow, many thanks for that Dub, it was great fun.

We also popped into a fly-in on the way back at a strip near to Bishops Waltham, I can't remember the name, little or long something, anyhow, very nice place, warm welcome and a free bbq thrown in! Nice place.

A few pictures........ For now, no room on my web space bit so will sort it out later.
Cockpit of DubTrubs Taylorcraft









Monocock.









The Rans S6

Nice T-tail.

[Whiskey Kilo Wanderer]

Grand Day Out

Nice to meet up with everyone, particularly with BRL doing all the hard work there and back.

Thanks to Koli for the tea and cakes. It just shows how far people will go for a free landing and food!

Hope to see everyone at the next fly-in.

Safe Flying.

Richard W.

[BRL]

Dodgy picture but this is the approach to the grass strip I can't remember the name of!!!

[Wycombe]

Lots of thanks.....

Thanks to Brooklands for taking me along in G-YFZT.

Thanks to Koli for the Birthday tea and cakes

Thanks to Genghis for the great trip in the Thruster (and for letting me fly it and try a landing at Chilbolton to boot)

Thanks to the the folks at Popham for waving landing fees and making some nice lunch.

Thanks to the weather gods for some great weather on a Bank Holiday Monday.

Thanks to BRL for getting it together.

I think that's it.....great day.