[jhb] Re: es9 farmstrips
- From: Gerry Winskill <gwinsk@xxxxxxx>
- To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 10:51:20 +0100
Hi Fred,
Great! They definitely have the addon effect of improving your aircraft
handling. Either that or you go through the far end hedge!
FSX strips, with Treescapes, are even better ..........
Gerry Winskill
On 19/08/2011 10:43, Fred Stopforth wrote:
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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