UK: Quickie on pronunciation.....
 

EGCV, Sleap....


Crew room discussion going on.

...is it pronounced SLEEP (as in not awake) or SLAYPE (as in.....err, well....)???

Slaype last time I was there.

Is that Slaip or Slaipee? :confused: :E

My boss was impressed with the all day breakfast. They're a very friendly bunch at Sleap :ok:

Amongst the very best bunch I have ever come across at a club or school.

As for pronunciation. Think about a big monkey (yep, an ape). Stick a s and an l in front of it and you get the idea - slape.

The Wombat

Many years ago, as an ATC Cadet, I was quite excited when we were told that we were going to Sleap with the Girls Venture Training Corps.

Good preparation for life's many disappointments.

Anyway, in Cheshire, we weren't expected to pronounce it properly.

Great post :D

Want to hear some Irish pronunciation of some airfields..... cringe :}

Heard a German tourist on a tube train once talking to her companion about the next stop being "Oyston Skvarr".

More years ago than I care to admit I saw the FIR controller nearly fall off his chair laughing. When asked why he said he'd just had a call from an aircraft en-route from Little Snoring to Sleap.

I remember in the RAF Flight Safety publication (name escapes me - Air Clues?) in the late 60s, an article with a title along the lines of "Don't go to sleep near Sleap", reminding pilots that Sleap was used intensively for practice GCAs by the Vampires and Provosts from Shawbury, for the benefit of trainee controllers.

Put it this way, they refer to themselves on the radio as 'Slape' and I've never heard it otherwise...

Tim

Of course for Geordies and Wearside lads it's Sleee app:ok:

Aye the lads mon

Sir George Cayley