Is Perranporth Licenced?
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Is Perranporth Licenced?
Getting confusing info about this, all Google answers say "The airfield has two licenced tarmac runways" but looking in the AIP Aerodrome specific for EGTP there is no entry.
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Many airfields have given up their licenced status to save money since the recent CAA announcement that training no longer requires a licenced field.
This removes a lot of admin and expense for fields which are only used for private flying.
Licencing is still required for commercial operations so if the passengers are paying you can no longer land there.
This removes a lot of admin and expense for fields which are only used for private flying.
Licencing is still required for commercial operations so if the passengers are paying you can no longer land there.
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Licencing is still required for commercial operations so if the passengers are paying you can no longer land there.
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Helicopter landings are a different can of worms because they can land almost anywhere. Commercial helicopter operations would still need to operate from a licenced site.
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Why do you need it to be?
I don't.
I wanted to get proper airfield info and looked in the official source and found none, hence the confusion over what appears now on-line (Google)and is out of date.
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So if you are say operating a C172 on an AOC doing pleasure flights or photography, then you can only operate from licences airfields? During their notified opening hours, when ATC and RFFS are available?
Another reason why going unlicenced can be a shortsighted option.
In the end it all comes down to money, operating a licenced field is expensive and the owner needs to attract enough commercial operations income to justify the cost.
In the case of Perranporth the field has been for sale for a long time and it is being operated by the local flying club faced with the possibility of a sale to developers at any time.
The airfield is in danger and nobody is going to spend money until the situation is resolved.
The complication is that large parts of the field are a scheduled monument and English Heritage are involved in any potential changes. Scheduled Monument status is the big daddy of protection.
The only surviving WW2 fighter dispersal pens are protected to the same
level as Stonehenge or St Pauls.
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The CAA information is, of course, the one to believe.
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Perranporth is unlicensed
As always, the official publication, the IAIP, is the place to look (incidentally, it's published by NATS, NOT the CAA). There is no entry, of course. It was removed at the time of delicensing.
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Originally Posted by TheOddOne
the IAIP, is the place to look (incidentally, it's published by NATS, NOT the CAA)
UNITED KINGDOM AIP
1 Publishing Authority
1.1 The United Kingdom Integrated Aeronautical Information Package (IAIP) CAP032 is published by authority of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
1 Publishing Authority
1.1 The United Kingdom Integrated Aeronautical Information Package (IAIP) CAP032 is published by authority of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
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I wanted to get proper airfield info and looked in the official source and found none, hence the confusion over what appears now on-line (Google)and is out of date.
I also understand that visitors are still VERY welcome, call the new PPR number, as the airfield is now being run directly by the owners.
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I also understand that visitors are still VERY welcome, call the new PPR number, as the airfield is now being run directly by the owners.
Has it been quietly sold to new owners ?
BTW the website www.perranporthairfield.co.uk is broken.
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Highly recommended to keep the crap out of your browser.
It WAS the owners official site for the field but seems to have been neglected
and secumbed to bitrot and hackers.
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<takes a look>
No, it is a second Perranporth Flying Club site, incomplete and claiming to have 2 licenced runways (again).
So now they have 2 incomplete, misleading and amateurish websites, looks like the place is going to the dogs with driving lessons and trucks getting in the way of flying.
From ghoulies and ghosties and longlegged beasties and daft clubs that give us a fright, good lord deliver us.
No, it is a second Perranporth Flying Club site, incomplete and claiming to have 2 licenced runways (again).
So now they have 2 incomplete, misleading and amateurish websites, looks like the place is going to the dogs with driving lessons and trucks getting in the way of flying.
From ghoulies and ghosties and longlegged beasties and daft clubs that give us a fright, good lord deliver us.
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Give the guys a break.
Most of the staff are volunteers and have kept the airfield going through a very bad patch through their efforts. To criticise their website is a bit below the belt.
Whenever I've phoned them they've been helpful and informative, so if you have a question for them, speak to them.....
Most of the staff are volunteers and have kept the airfield going through a very bad patch through their efforts. To criticise their website is a bit below the belt.
Whenever I've phoned them they've been helpful and informative, so if you have a question for them, speak to them.....
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To criticise their website is a bit below the belt.