[jhb] Re: es9 farmstrips

  • From: Fred Stopforth <fredstopforth@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:43:21 +0100

Gerry , just to let you know I'm still enjoying the FS9 farm strips; just especially enjoyed a trip this morning X9GW to X4CE . Had excellent visuals and good real weather all the way, finding it very calming to know where I was along the way. The weather [very clear though] would have it that I had to use rwy 29 meaning to keep just above powerlines on the threshold and then smartly drop onto the rwy. Aye I did it mate. Fred 


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From: "Gerry Winskill" <gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 8:06 PM
To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [jhb] Re: Glassonby Airfield
Via the link I've just given I've unearthed 45 grass strips. Next comes a trip to GE, to see how many still exist. 

Gerry Winskill

On 18/08/2011 18:54, Fossil wrote:
Strange place for airfields is Ireland - they are far more transitory than 
in the UK.
When I first drew up a list of UK airfields in 1994 the list also included 
all known Irish airfields. Over the years only the paved airfields have
remained static and almost all grass strips I knew then have gone. Even some 
paved airfields have waning fortunes with the once very popular Castlebar
now closed after losing all its traffic to Knock.
Galway nearly closed too after Aer Arann fell out with the owner and moved to a new site at Connemara. It only survived because it had been earmarked 
for regional development (EU funding) and this duly saw the building of a
new runway - as also happened at Donegal, Sligo, Kerry and Waterford.
When I published the UK airfield data I decided that I wouldn't include the 
Irish listing as there was a site already covering this information.
Unfortunately this site disappeared some time ago so I don't think there is any online data for historical Irish airfields - just the usual sites that 
cover currently active listings.

bones

bones@xxxxxxx
http://woodair.net

-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 18 August 2011 14:16
To: JHB Restricted
Subject: [jhb] Glassonby Airfield

This month's copy of Flyer has an article on flying in the Lake
District. It covers not only Cark, Carlisle and Kirkbride but also one
of that's new to me; Glassonby Airfield. I set out to do it as a farm
strip but when I eventually located its co-ordinates it was to find
there's already an airstrip there!

So, if anyone has the Northern Version of the UK VFR Airfields, you
already have access to Glassonbury. Which frees me up to look at a
couple of farms in the Ireland photoscenery area.

Gerry Winskill

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