Fri Jul 01, 2016 11:56 pm
#1467449
It was a relatively sunny day and the plane was free, so I thought I'd pop back to the site of my first solo landaway (about 5 years ago!). Having learnt at East Midlands I thought it might be fun to try a zone transit (having only ever entered the zone to land there).
Managed to get straight through East Midlands' zone (not above 2000ft, via the VFR lane), a few minutes behind a BBMF display at the aeropark. Always good to keep brushed up on transits through controlled airspace, East Mids controllers being helpful as ever. It was a shame to see the now disused Hucknall airfield, and no sign of any developments there.
Gamston's still a nice airfield, and the cafe is still expensive! Good though, and worth a visit if you haven't already. Quite a wide variety of aircraft parked up too.
I took a direct routing on the return flight, remaining east of East Midlands controlled airspace. The video below is a quick overview of the flight, outbound and return. I've overlaid a the track from SkyDemon on the video too.
Enjoy!
Managed to get straight through East Midlands' zone (not above 2000ft, via the VFR lane), a few minutes behind a BBMF display at the aeropark. Always good to keep brushed up on transits through controlled airspace, East Mids controllers being helpful as ever. It was a shame to see the now disused Hucknall airfield, and no sign of any developments there.
Gamston's still a nice airfield, and the cafe is still expensive! Good though, and worth a visit if you haven't already. Quite a wide variety of aircraft parked up too.
I took a direct routing on the return flight, remaining east of East Midlands controlled airspace. The video below is a quick overview of the flight, outbound and return. I've overlaid a the track from SkyDemon on the video too.
Enjoy!