Flying into Coventry
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: South
Posts: 133
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Flew in there about a month ago in a 152.
VFR, no PPR, just used a radar service on the way in until they passed over to Coventry Approach with a freecall.
No problems at all with it.
4015
VFR, no PPR, just used a radar service on the way in until they passed over to Coventry Approach with a freecall.
No problems at all with it.
4015
rip off
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Yes
Posts: 28
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
There are 2 museums at Coventry.
Airbase - AIRBASE - The live air museum is the one on the airfield and will cost you £10 for entry. Interesting collection though I agree the entry price is a bit steep and the majority of the aircraft are hands off,
An easy walk off the airfield is the better value Midland Air Museum - MIDLAND AIR MUSEUM which will cost you £5.00 entry. Good collection of aircraft and if enough volunteers are on duty you can scramble up into the Vulcan and play with the controls in the Whistling Wheelbarrow.
If I had to choose one it would be the Midland which has a pleasant amateurish feel about it and a better display of aircraft, IMHO.
Airbase - AIRBASE - The live air museum is the one on the airfield and will cost you £10 for entry. Interesting collection though I agree the entry price is a bit steep and the majority of the aircraft are hands off,
An easy walk off the airfield is the better value Midland Air Museum - MIDLAND AIR MUSEUM which will cost you £5.00 entry. Good collection of aircraft and if enough volunteers are on duty you can scramble up into the Vulcan and play with the controls in the Whistling Wheelbarrow.
If I had to choose one it would be the Midland which has a pleasant amateurish feel about it and a better display of aircraft, IMHO.
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Job Centre
Age: 74
Posts: 169
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Coventry
One of my 'getting back in practice' trips last month.
Several unmissable VRPs, plus nice big roads nearby to point the way.
Birmingham App VERY helpful and friendly, as were Coventry, in the face of my little difficulty
Take a peek in the Air Park hangar if you can - what a facility!
Midland museum's Vulcan cockpit is a 'must' (when I last visited 15 years ago)
SD
(aside ... quite a nostalgia trip for me - my first job was hangar monkey for Ace Freighters / Midland Aeronautical Engineering at Coventry in the '60s. DC4s and Constellations)
One of my 'getting back in practice' trips last month.
Several unmissable VRPs, plus nice big roads nearby to point the way.
Birmingham App VERY helpful and friendly, as were Coventry, in the face of my little difficulty
Take a peek in the Air Park hangar if you can - what a facility!
Midland museum's Vulcan cockpit is a 'must' (when I last visited 15 years ago)
SD
(aside ... quite a nostalgia trip for me - my first job was hangar monkey for Ace Freighters / Midland Aeronautical Engineering at Coventry in the '60s. DC4s and Constellations)
