Welshpool Flying?
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Flying at Welshpool
Can I please try to dispel some of the myths and ill-informed opinions about Welshpool (Mid Wales) Airport. It is a wonderful and beautiful part of the country to fly in and around. There is a fixed wing and a rotary wing school at the airfield and their aim is to provide first class training at an affordable cost using very experienced instructors. Pool Aviation is dead, deceased, joined the choir invisible...it is an ex-flying school! The new Welshpool flying School is a friendly place to be, for both students and PPLs, who are most welcome. If you fly in at weekends, bacon rolls are available. Why not place your order in flight to ensure that they are ready when you have landed! Many pilots are already doing so! There is always a friendly face here to answer your questions and give advice if required, and several local taxi companies are available to take you into town. They are Yellowcabs on 01938 553311 or Ambercabs on 01938 556611, and are well used to picking up weary pilots from Welshpool International! All I can say to the perpetrators of some of the garbage I have read on this forum is either they have not been here and are working on the basis of heresay, or they have been listening to "sour grapes" from the previous operator of the airfield. Please come and visit soon. You will not be disappointed.
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Wow, as blatant a piece of obvious advertising as I've ever seen survive for 12 hours on PPRuNe - even if true. 
And he/she registered on PPRune specifically to put this post too, from the looks of it!!! CPL/instructor/examiner...at Welshpool, perhaps? Starwing, I'm not getting at you, and I'm sure I must know who you are, though I haven't quite worked it out from your profile....yet. 
And I'm not a moderator, or a self-styled PPRune policeman. It's just that I think people should know that maybe, just...maybe...you aren't completely impartial.
And he/she registered on PPRune specifically to put this post too, from the looks of it!!! CPL/instructor/examiner...at Welshpool, perhaps? Starwing, I'm not getting at you, and I'm sure I must know who you are, though I haven't quite worked it out from your profile....yet. And I'm not a moderator, or a self-styled PPRune policeman. It's just that I think people should know that maybe, just...maybe...you aren't completely impartial.
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Last time I was down at Welshpool, I wasn't very inpressed with the place, and there has been a lot of debate about it's future, (Like loosing it's license a couple of years ago - but i think they've got it back again)
Of course you could come up to Mona or Caernaforn, Mona has training at £80/hour in a 150, £90 in a PA28 (I think)
WelshFlyer
Of course you could come up to Mona or Caernaforn, Mona has training at £80/hour in a 150, £90 in a PA28 (I think)
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I've been to Welshpool very recently a few times - a very nice friendly place every time, so don't knock it.
A hard runway big enough for me to see and land on, easy parking on tarmac (no getting stuck in mud on some radio's orders) and nice cakes - what more can one want??
I have been told to practically p**s off by somebody so it does happen but that was in N Devon.
A hard runway big enough for me to see and land on, easy parking on tarmac (no getting stuck in mud on some radio's orders) and nice cakes - what more can one want??
I have been told to practically p**s off by somebody so it does happen but that was in N Devon.
