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PostPosted:Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:26 pm
by CaptChaos
We were at Sywell yesterday and the tower and refuelling team were excellent, friendly and very helpful. I believe you can use the pumps with a credit card out of hours as well which is a great boon for a late arrival/transits. It is a great place and just a shame the food service at both outlets is rather disorganised and slow but still pretty friendly. Get that addressed and it would be 5* all round.

Thanks to everyone there for being so helpful.

PostPosted:Sat Feb 22, 2014 11:32 pm
by Zaphod
Does anyone know what's happened to the Pilot's Mess, and if/when it might reopen?

PostPosted:Wed Mar 05, 2014 2:45 pm
by TLRippon
Zaphod wrote:Does anyone know what's happened to the Pilot's Mess, and if/when it might reopen?


Apparently the Pilots Mess is run on a franchise basis and they are currently without a franchisee. One is being sought though. In the meantime the food and cakes in the hotel are quite nice. Alternatively there is a family pub/restaurant a short walk up the road.

PostPosted:Mon Mar 10, 2014 9:30 pm
by Joe Petroni
The Aviator Hotel kitchen closes at 14:30, which I found out, to my cost, last week! :(

Pilots Mess Under New Management.

PostPosted:Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:26 pm
by TLRippon
The Pilots Mess will re-open UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT (mine) from the Easter Weekend 2014 if all goes to plan. 08:30 until 17:00 (Summer) and 08:30 until Sunset (or when everybody wants to go home)- Winter.

PostPosted:Mon May 12, 2014 9:01 am
by GrahamB
I had to mosey over to Sywell on Saturday to see one or two people about the forthcoming fly-in we are arranging there.

We grabbed ourselves a late lunch at the Pilots Mess, and full marks are due to Lawrence and team for its rejuvenation. Spotlessly clean, a warm welcome, a good set of menu options and Wifi available as well.

With the keenly priced fuel and the museum open at weekends, the airfield is well worth a detour or as a destination in its own right.

PostPosted:Fri May 16, 2014 10:39 pm
by TLRippon
GrahamB wrote:I had to mosey over to Sywell on Saturday to see one or two people about the forthcoming fly-in we are arranging there.

We grabbed ourselves a late lunch at the Pilots Mess, and full marks are due to Lawrence and team for its rejuvenation. Spotlessly clean, a warm welcome, a good set of menu options and Wifi available as well.

With the keenly priced fuel and the museum open at weekends, the airfield is well worth a detour or as a destination in its own right.


Thanks Graham, I'm pleased you liked the place.

We had a few service issues this Friday, we were caught by surprise with a sudden influx and although we have managed to serve hundreds of customers per day at events with staffing accordingly, this exposed a hole in the model, normal day, abnormal number of visitors all arriving within a very compact period of time.

We do of course apologise to those who waited a considerable amount of time for their orders. I have today employed an additional cook and we will staff Fridays in anticipation of a similar situation occurring throughout the summer. I've also made some adjustments to the menu to speed up service in these situations.

I look forward to welcoming you at the Pilots Mess.

PostPosted:Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:34 pm
by Desert Rat
We flew into Sywell on Sunday and must say we had a brilliant day.
Cars, bikes and some fantastic aircraft displays.
We went and had breakfast in the Pilots Mess and despite it being absolutely heaving with punters being such a busy day, Lawrence and the team did very well to serve an excellent full English which was reasonably priced and extremely tasty.
I'm really looking forward to making Sywell a regular stop.
:thumright:

Re: Northampton Sywell (EGBK)

PostPosted:Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:17 pm
by rdfb
Sywell is currently effectively closed to visiting aircraft at weekends, since it "is strictly PPR for all aircraft" and "PPR requests are monitored between 9.00am and 5.00pm Monday to Friday". See https://www.sywellaerodrome.co.uk/aviat ... drome-ppr/ for details.

Re: Northampton Sywell (EGBK)

PostPosted:Tue Oct 12, 2021 7:50 am
by skydriller
And there we have it... another GA aerodrome in the UK AIP that requires PPR, by telephone, only during working hours. Classic.

Re: Northampton Sywell (EGBK)

PostPosted:Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:34 am
by rogerb
Am I correct in thinking that sywell was at one time available for all without ppr in daylight hours who needed self serve fuel?

Re: Northampton Sywell (EGBK)

PostPosted:Tue Oct 12, 2021 11:12 am
by Paul_Sengupta
I wouldn't particularly trust this bit of information but those who are based there seem to say on a weekend you should just turn up and no one will be any the wiser. Of course I can't say you won't get into trouble for it!

Re: Northampton Sywell (EGBK)

PostPosted:Tue Oct 12, 2021 12:24 pm
by Flyin'Dutch'
rogerb wrote:Am I correct in thinking that sywell was at one time available for all without ppr in daylight hours who needed self serve fuel?


Correct.

But I was using that 10 years ago, sü for up to date info ring them and ask.

They are a friendly lot.