[jhb] Re: es9 farmstrips
- From: "Paul Reynolds" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:41:05 +0100
Not forgetting Gen-X photoscenery, preferably v2 though I'm happy with v3
though I haven't gone looking for supposed anomolies there may be from
upgrading since patching.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Gerry Winskill
Sent: 19 August 2011 10:51
To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jhb] Re: es9 farmstrips
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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>>>
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