Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:07 am
#1784350
I think this is misleading. Am I wrong?
Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:43 am
#1784359
Wrong about what
FLYER Club Member
Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:01 pm
#1784365
Maybe just that Aylesbury is the nearest place big enough to give a NOTAM readers a rough idea of where the parachuting is taking place.
If they'd said "Bicester", readers may have assumed o/h the airfield.
There's a number to call if anyone wants to double check.
Hopefully talking to Oxford App when passing by would give activity info.
If they'd said "Bicester", readers may have assumed o/h the airfield.
There's a number to call if anyone wants to double check.
Hopefully talking to Oxford App when passing by would give activity info.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:05 pm
#1784368
ArrowStraight wrote:I think this is misleading. Am I wrong?
Where is it, Weston on the Green?
There's only one 'F' in Fulham
Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:09 pm
#1784369
No - it surely would have said if so.
The centre of the NOTAM circle is about 6nm E of WOTG.
The centre of the NOTAM circle is about 6nm E of WOTG.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 12:25 pm
#1784371
Open countryside - wrong co- ordinates? (unless it's a breakout from the nearby prison 
)
)There's only one 'F' in Fulham
Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:30 pm
#1784382
There's just fields there, nothing other than farming. Not seen or heard anything of parachuting there. I saw the mention of Aylesbury on the NOTAM and was quite surprised when SkyDemon showed it much nearer to Bicester.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:35 pm
#1784383
The lat and long on the NOTAM appear to be different to the lat and long on the graphical display of SkyDemon.
CPL IMC FI (A) FE and owner of Blackbushe Aviation flying club
Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:36 pm
#1784384
Westcott would be a better name to use - much closer and the VOR means that most pilots know where that is.
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I am Spartacus, and so is my co-pilot.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 1:45 pm
#1784387
Sir Morley Steven wrote:The lat and long on the NOTAM appear to be different to the lat and long on the graphical display of SkyDemon.
Not much. Plotting the lat/long in the NOTAM gives a point on the Bicester-Aylesbury road just under the "U" of "Grendon Underwood" in the image above.
The NOTAM 'Q' line (which I think SD uses to plot) gives "5152N00103W" whereas the NOTAM body says "515226N 0010310W"
Sat Jul 18, 2020 3:38 pm
#1784405
I called the number in the NOTAM yesterday and got an immediate and helpful response.
Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:47 pm
#1784482
bogopper wrote:... which was?
"We've finished for the day."
Sat Jul 18, 2020 11:19 pm
#1784489
It’s quite a large chunk of airspace to commandeer .