Fishburn !
Breighton !
Bagby!
:d :d :d

And Sleap - great caff and friendly too.... Interesting visitors, upon occasion. :ok:

Well, I have to give my home field Lydd a prop. The tower is always very friendly and helpful. And calm even under high workloads. Taking the time asking arriving strangers if they need fuel and stuff (I know it's in their interest, but still). The cafe food is not amazing, but it will do the job.

Bembridge - only been once but they were rather friendly. And cheap.

Damyns Hall - really nice little airstrip close to London. Cheap and friendly and in the weeks very quiet. I recommend it for visits to London.

Did a cross country to Santa Barbara recently and the controller there went out of his way to help a non-native English speaker and US rookie like myself to copy his (for me) complicated clearance. He really took his time, slowed the R/T down and looked out for me. Nice people - hats off.

I last flew into Compton Abbass about 1982 - nice clean tidy field - excellent restaurant.

Around the same time - when Biggin Hill was virtually just private and club
(no noisy jets) I went with my small son into Biggins pilots cafe and purchased tea and lemonade. As I moved to take our tray over to a table Mary (the owner) shoved a tray of cakes towards my little son
saying " Here we are have one of these".

What I nice lady I thought as my son thanked her for the jam tart.

As we got up to leave this voice bellowed out for all to hear
"Hey you havnt paid for the cake" !

Earls Colne
Fenland
Fishburn
Headcorn

really friendly people, and very welcoming:ok::)

Carlisle - super all day breakfast
Wellesbourne - super all day breakfast
Shobdon - super all day breakfast
Sleap - super all day breakfast

... now I come to think of it, maybe that's why I enjoy my flying so much and why my trousers seem to shrink in the night.

Hells teeth you are going back more than a few years. Mary Dillows cafe was an airfield legend. (her husband had died in an aircraft accident many years earlier.) Used it myself on more than a few occasions.

27 years tends to change things.

Maybe one day we will get an airfield cafe and bar back!

Heathrow Director
 

Nice you should mention Fowlmere....

It s the people that make the atmosphere!


:ok::ok::ok:

Seething - had the best chips of my life there, and he put the fryer on just for me
Wellesbourne
Shobdon
Sleap
Goodwood
Popham
Ha'penny Green is OK
and I like Cambridge despite silly hi-viz &c. Expensive but not ridiculous, and friendly
ditto Gloucester, actually

Tim

Conington
 

I like doing a land away to Peterborough Conington. Clear airspace, easy to find and really friendly poeple with a great little cafe.

MM

Thanks for update on Marys Biggin pilots cafe Vino

Is there any comparable replacement cafe for PPLs at Biggin today ?

One for the white list:

I visited White Waltham for the first time on Saturday. Very friendly ATC, efficient fuelling, lots of interesting aircraft kicking around, clubhouse well stocked and friendly opps staff. Only downside was the runways were a bit lumpy in places, and the circuit / join procedues aren't the easiest in the world. Worth a visit.

Did WW fuelling mean Mogas or expensive Avgas only ?

mike.

I took Avgas, didn't see if they had mogas or not...It may have been expensive but was cheaper than my home base :*

We have paid a couple of visits to Sywell in recent weeks. It is an outstanding destination. Hats off to the AFISO there. The traffic is continuous and heavy with fixed wing using both hard and grass runways and mega amounts of rotary movements. It is all handled expertly and with the minimum of delay. The new hard runway is an added bonus. Presently only the hotel is open for food but it of a very high quality and reasonably priced. You really do wonder what is wrong with so many of the airfields mentioned in this forum in that they can't follow this example. If you are good enough you will attract the paying customers.