Airfield "Whitelist"
 

In response to the "Aifields Blacklist" thread, it's time for some optimism!

What about a thread for good airfields then.

My additions:

Cumbernauld
Dundee
Fife
Oban
Perth
Prestwick

Add as necissary...

Smithy

Jersey
Guernsey
Alderney (If you pay attention to the tricky approach on 09 & don't worry about the fence from the other thread)

Most French Airfields especially Cherbourg (Luc & Edith), Dinard (When Ryanair is not there), La Rochelle, Limoges, Lessay, St. Brieuc

And, a few years ago, Ostende & Luxembourg (4km runway)

Kemble
Dunkeswell
Gloucester
Wellesbourne
Caernefon (EGCK as I can't spell it!)
Shoreham (as long as you don't go-around!)
Kirkwall
Welshpool

Eddsfield
Cark
Dunkeswell
North Weald
Headcorn

White Waltham
Headcorn
Breighton
North Weald

and lots of friendly farmers strips where there's a warm welcome, no politics and no landing fees:ok:

Shobdon
and
Sywell (Mick, Flylight, Aviator Cafe and Bar and Mogas on tap)

also mention must be made of Halfpenny Green

Ha'penny Green?
 

When I was flying around that part of the world, about 6+ years ago, you were reprimanded by all at that airfield for calling it Ha'penny Green.
Including the Air Traffic bods in the tower (which was more of a climbing frame, not really tall enough for a tower).

Even though when talking to Birmingham & all other controllers, everyone knew it as Ha'penny Green.

It was known by all that used it, but based elsewhere, as Wolverhampton Intergalactic Space Port.

Obviously a positive management change.:}

I'll add Fishburn & add my vote for Eddsfield

Popham airfield?

Sywell

Arrived a week or two back in a Cirrus driven by a friend. Went into the fuel kiosk to pay (said friend attired in day-glo yellow).

"Which of you is paying?"
"I am" in me normal clothes
"That'll be twelve quid then. If had been him (in the day-glo yellow) it would have been twenty."

Popham
Lane Farm
Shobden
Croft Farm (low pass to clear the deer)
Compton Abbas
Leicester
Lyneham (Families Day)
Henstridge
Oaksey Park
Keystone (nice pub)
Quiberon (man on a Velosolex)
Avranches (low pass to clear the sheep)
Sackville Farm (ace barbecue)

etc etc etc

I forgot Avranches, DOH!
 

I forgot Avranches, super friendly people.

When I last went there, signed the club book as a visiting pilot.

I am not impressive, but it had Louis Bleriot's signature, as well as St. Exupery. I think Lindberg was in it too.

When they have their fly in, you camp on the field and they serve local lamb, fed on the airfield with self seasoning marsh grass.

<<When they have their fly in, you camp on the field>>

Reminds me..... Fowlmere.

Eaglescott
Old Warden
Oxford
Brimpton
Goodwood
Wick
Farnborough
Seething

And any where else without ridiculous security, with good coffee and friendly greetings.

Oh, and Eaglescott again because I spend so many days of every winter there waiting for customers and they are such a nice bunch of people.

SHUTTLEWORTH. £10 to land. Good cafe and includes entry to the collection! A day out doesn't get much better than that!

Oh dear mike,i hope i didn't offend your friend with my comment about paying double for wearing a high vis jacket,next time ill use the one about,"youre lucky i haven't brought my dog today,he bites people wearing hi vis jackets" :ok:

Nicest place I've ever flown to was Brac LDSB in Croatia.

In the UK, there are quite a few good places though many are PPR.

My only bad experiences in the UK were at Panshanger (where some "important" person on the radio demanded an overhead join with a RH circuit, despite not having any known traffic), and Stapleford/Wellesbourne where I would not fly on a sunny Sunday preceeded by weeks of bad weather, due to so many crazy people (often accompanied by instructors).

Eggesford - no landing fees and NO yellow jackets!!

Nice to see Seething get a mention :ok:

Southampton, not the cheapest place to go, but I've always had a really friendly welcome by staff who know what their doing and are very willing to help you.

We'd just come from Shoreham, where I gather they are terribly worried that the driver of the baggage truck whizzing around in the bowels of the terminal might not see you. I learned to fly at Shoreham in the 1970's and it was absolute carnage then because none of us knew anything about them and we got mown down left right and centre, I've no idea how the local A&E coped with the constant stream of mangled bodies.

Don't worry about Jon, he's Welsh so he's used to being offended.;)