Private landing site needed. LEEDS
Or why not just go by train?
Coney Park is miles out of Leeds. It should be renamed Ilkley Moor Heliport.
Nelly - wouldn't you have been better off driving from Doncaster to Leeds...?
Joel - The Hilton is now Holiday Inn - must have been a few years since you were there ;o)
Coney Park is miles out of Leeds. It should be renamed Ilkley Moor Heliport.
Nelly - wouldn't you have been better off driving from Doncaster to Leeds...?
Joel - The Hilton is now Holiday Inn - must have been a few years since you were there ;o)
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So ......
I have a 120 sat on the back lawn, and I should drive or get the train to Leeds ???
Train, when it works.......
Car 40 to 60 mins....
Heli, 10 mins...
This year I am trying to get everywhere without using a car....
It's 6.00am and the traffic outside our house is stood still already.....
Nelly
I have a 120 sat on the back lawn, and I should drive or get the train to Leeds ???
Train, when it works.......
Car 40 to 60 mins....
Heli, 10 mins...
This year I am trying to get everywhere without using a car....
It's 6.00am and the traffic outside our house is stood still already.....
Nelly
Nelly - avoiding the car sounds good but realistically;
- Time spent seeking out landing sites & gaining permission
- Preflight
- Start-up & Shutdown
- Postflight
- Walking to/from A/C (often parked further away from building than the car park)
- Waiting for the Taxi to turn-up
- Transfer by taxi to your final destination
It might only be a 10-minute flight but on this occasion would alternative transport modes not have been more practical?
- Time spent seeking out landing sites & gaining permission
- Preflight
- Start-up & Shutdown
- Postflight
- Walking to/from A/C (often parked further away from building than the car park)
- Waiting for the Taxi to turn-up
- Transfer by taxi to your final destination
It might only be a 10-minute flight but on this occasion would alternative transport modes not have been more practical?
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Nelly - avoiding the car sounds good but realistically;
- Time spent seeking out landing sites & gaining permission
- Preflight
- Start-up & Shutdown
- Postflight
- Walking to/from A/C (often parked further away from building than the car park)
- Waiting for the Taxi to turn-up
- Transfer by taxi to your final destination
It might only be a 10-minute flight but on this occasion would alternative transport modes not have been more practical?
- Time spent seeking out landing sites & gaining permission
- Preflight
- Start-up & Shutdown
- Postflight
- Walking to/from A/C (often parked further away from building than the car park)
- Waiting for the Taxi to turn-up
- Transfer by taxi to your final destination
It might only be a 10-minute flight but on this occasion would alternative transport modes not have been more practical?
I think you've forgotten that important little phase inbetween Start-up and Shutdown, that make all those other phases of the trip worth it.
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Found a nice little landing spot today near pontefract...
On our way back from a great day out up and around Windermere..
The pontefract hotel is called kings croft hotel, nice little helipad. Just south of pontefract race course.
Off to try their lunch tomorow...
Landed at the in on the lake today on ullswater lake,
Scenery was amazing ......
I suppose I could have got in the car and drove for three and a half hours, to get there also, and then drove for another three and a half hours home .
Mmmmmmmm
I will let you all know the sp, on the hotel in pontefract....
Nelly
On our way back from a great day out up and around Windermere..
The pontefract hotel is called kings croft hotel, nice little helipad. Just south of pontefract race course.
Off to try their lunch tomorow...
Landed at the in on the lake today on ullswater lake,
Scenery was amazing ......
I suppose I could have got in the car and drove for three and a half hours, to get there also, and then drove for another three and a half hours home .
Mmmmmmmm
I will let you all know the sp, on the hotel in pontefract....
Nelly
at Silsoe - please re-read my post, and then re-read it again slllllloooooooowwwwwllllllllly."It might only be a 10-minute flight but on this occasion would alternative transport modes not have been more practical?"
A QUESTION not A STATEMENT.
Nelly - the following map may also be very handy for Yorkshire landing sites (some club members are nearer to Leeds city centre than the Holiday Inn at Garforth). The Kings Croft is listed there too and is very good. As for driving to the Lakes - it's a pleasant one but I think I'd be tempted to fly there too (having had the fortune to land an Air Ambulance up there on several occasions!);
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Enjoy The Kings Croft. MB
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