Northampton Sywell - new runway?
Northampton Sywell - new runway?
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hatzflyer,
I was at the LAA fly-in a month or two ago - I seem to remember landings being made on the original grass 03/21 with a few using the hard runway. Speaking to the chap in the tower a few weeks back, he mentioned the only hurdles remaining are involved with licensing - physically the runway is down and complete with markings.
I was at the LAA fly-in a month or two ago - I seem to remember landings being made on the original grass 03/21 with a few using the hard runway. Speaking to the chap in the tower a few weeks back, he mentioned the only hurdles remaining are involved with licensing - physically the runway is down and complete with markings.
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I had the pleasure of taking a twin in there a couple of weeks ago and the current runway whilst long enough does make me think the sooner the CAA get the hard runway signed off the better.
I wonder what the press would make of it if there had been an accident which a contributory factor was - despite requests the pilot was told 'sorry its not been inspected by the CAA so cant be used' although it would have given about 600 metres more of flat surface for the take off and was therefore forced to use a much shorter runway!
Come on CAA surely you are not that busy!
I wonder what the press would make of it if there had been an accident which a contributory factor was - despite requests the pilot was told 'sorry its not been inspected by the CAA so cant be used' although it would have given about 600 metres more of flat surface for the take off and was therefore forced to use a much shorter runway!
Come on CAA surely you are not that busy!
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Or you could argue that they have managed for nearly a century without a hard runway so a few months longer is not going to make any difference.
I did notice flying over it the other night that it seems to be marked as an Instrument runway.
I did notice flying over it the other night that it seems to be marked as an Instrument runway.
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'You could argue that they have managed for nearly a century'
Agreed - its just a shame the other runway is 546 metres shorter at the moment (if you include the undershoot bit)
Agreed - its just a shame the other runway is 546 metres shorter at the moment (if you include the undershoot bit)
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I heard that the hard runway still wasn't licenced, because someone from the CAA turned up with a tape measure and measured the size of the lines and numbers painted on the runway, and then pointed out that they weren't the correct size. Hence, still no licence. Nice....