Helipads, hotels and Others: Requests, Recommendations & Rip-offs

[500e]

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[notar]

HLS Caterham Surrey

Hello Everybody !

I am looking for a landing site near Caterham and not having any success. If anyone knows of one could you let me know please. It needs to be closer than the usual suspects at Biggin or Redhill. Can't get in contact with Ops at RAF Kenley at the moment but will keep trying.

Thanks

[topcat28]

Having flown at Kenley many years ago, as I recall the airfield is only active when the VGS are flying at the weekends.

Don't know what number you've got, but if you google Kenley's VGS you might well find a mobile number for the OC. I suspect that if you were talking about going in while they were active, they might well see the benefit for the cadets to have a guided tour around a shiney helicopter...

That said, I'm pretty sure the site is owned by the local council - so it might all be too tricky.

Best of luck...

[VeeAny]

Try googling Selsdon Park, not sure if they take helicopters, but they are in my list.

[notar]

Thank you for your help!

[Ready2Fly]

Landing in Bellagio/Italy

I am looking for infos to land in Bellagio (Lago di Como). I would appreciate some "parking space" for 2 nights as well (JetRanger or BO105) but if it is not possible to stay there, never mind.

The one contact i have does not speak english very well....and my italian is....non-existant...

Thanks in advance

[md 600 driver]

there a hangar at como where the water planes come from you could then catch the water taxi to belaggio

[docstone]

This is interesting

http://www.hurst-house.co.uk/PDF/HH-helipad.pdf

Anyone flown in here, seems to be heli friendly

[tonge]

I flew in there last year in a R22, its not that hard to find, the hotel is lovely!!

[500e]

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Not stayed but had a meal , very friendly, when enquiring about HP told please don't land on Cricket pitch there is a bridge over stream, Look for red brick chimney in factory 100 yds to south and also disused quarry 1/4 mile to east.
Helipad near Wells Somerset
The hotel offers guests the facility of arriving by helicopter. The coordinates are North 51 12.237' West 002 Helipad
Accommodation Cheddar Gorge Shepton Malet Bridgwater

[toptobottom]

HLS in/near Letchworth Garden City anyone?

I used to regularly land my 44 at The Letchworth Hall Hotel but new directors got twitchy so now I'm looking for a new site. as close as possible to the town centre and happy to let me land once 3 times a month or so?

[Baldegret]

North Wales

Any suggestions from fellow Rotorheads for somewhere to stay this weekend in North Wales? Looking for a decent hotel with room to land a R44 and excellent food. Anglesey or anywhere near the coast would be ideal.

[tegwin]

I have eaten here a couple of times and its a fantastic location....

Wales hotels, Maes-y-Neuadd Country House, Snowdonia

They do have a helipad if you phone and ask I have not landed there but made enquiries in the past Close enough to Caernarfon for fuel etc

[toptobottom]

Wales hotels, Maes-y-Neuadd Country House, Snowdonia

I've landed here before - great place, but the helipad is the front lawn which is quite tight and surrounded by trees - so be careful!! A better alternative is the Seiont Manor hotel which is an old favourite near the menai straits.

Finally, I would avoid Caernarfon like the plague - £30 landing fee for an R44, even if it's just to uplift fuel - RIP OFF! Llanbedr will be open for business soon, but use Welshpool in the meantime - no landing fees at all and very friendly.

[smallville]

Seiont Manor Hotel, Snowdonia

We stopped at the Seiont Manor hotel on May Day bank holiday, great hotel lots of room for landing.

Landed in Caernarfon Airport for fuel and was charged £15.00 landing fee for R44 but did have over 100Lts of Fuel and found airport staff very unhelpful will avoid in the future.

[docstone]

Hotels in North Wales for helicopters - Seiont is good, hotel tired, food used to be excellent. Tyn Rhos - loads of space, rooms pleasant, food variable. Port Tocyn, on the end of the Lleyn Peninsula - wonderful food, rooms so-so, loads of space, great location, not hugely close to Angelsey - owner Nick Fletcher-Brewer can be Fawlty-esque at times.

[g-mady]

One to AVOID!

A Ramada Jarvis, Hemel Hempsted near Junction 7... Hemel VRP.

Stung with a hefty landing fee! Their loss

MADY

[scooter boy]

How much was it G-MADY, do tell!

A Jarvis too - (YUK) and in lovely Hemel Hempstead!

Greedy blighters, although in mitigation it must cost them a few pence to have some Polish bloke mow the lawn every few days.

SB

[61 Lafite]

Landing point, Aviemore Scotland

Anyone know of a decent landing spot near or at Aviemore, where I can leave an R44 overnight?

Visiting a friend, so don't need a hotel, but happy to pay for a landing and the overnight stay of the aircraft

Lafite

[g-mady]

£100, double the most expensive aifields I know!

And the grass WASN'T even cut!!! There were some white slabs to mark out the HLS though....

It was the grimey curtains that got me though! Felt a bit like Colditz after passing the first 3 blocks!

MADY