Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:42 pm
#698859
Wonderful spot out on the Gower Pennisula. Two hard runways, 22/04 and 10/28. Both are well surfaced but undulate a bit and the intersection between 10 and 04 is dog rough and has a tendency to act as a ski jump ;-)
There's a parachuting club who drop from up to 10,000' and no overhead joins while they're about. The canopies land in the vicinity of which runway is not active.
Fixed wing, helicopter, and microlight school on site along with the air amublance so the circuit can get a bit busy on good flying days.
If you're there in the week be aware that the fastjets on their way to Pembrey ranges transit pretty close. They generally do call Swansea for traffic info and they're generally quite low by this point.
Air/ground are mostly very good, if occasionally given to sarcasm.
Landing fees are paid in the refuelling "hut" and are fairly typical.
Cafe is reasonable, very friendly and portions are large! It's only a pity there's no runway view.
The microlight club also have an R/C model aircraft shop if that's your bag.
It's definitely worth doing a bimble round Gower itself either on leaving or arriving. Local sightseeing traffic will tend to call "clockwise" or "anti-clockwise" and an altitude so everyone knows roughly what's going on.
One or two spots not marked on the maps tend to get used as unofficial reporting points. "Three Cliffs Bay" (easy to spot, the clue's in the name) just south of the airfield, and "Whitford Point", the disused lighthouse on the northernmost tip of the pennisula.
If you want to get into Swansea or out on Gower on the ground, the "green buses" that do the beaches and the circular tour stop right outside the airfield -- but only if you jump up and down like a maniac and wave at them. Otherwise they leave you standing there like a muppet. It's the 118 service. Day ticket is four quid and cheaper than almost any individual journey. Timetables etc are on the [url=http://www.countrygoer.org/wales/gowerexplorer.html]Gower Explorer page[/url]
There are footpaths all over Gower and one or two skirt right along the airfield boundary. The routes are gorgeous but signage varies from intermittent to non-existent, you'll want an OS map or similar.
There's a parachuting club who drop from up to 10,000' and no overhead joins while they're about. The canopies land in the vicinity of which runway is not active.
Fixed wing, helicopter, and microlight school on site along with the air amublance so the circuit can get a bit busy on good flying days.
If you're there in the week be aware that the fastjets on their way to Pembrey ranges transit pretty close. They generally do call Swansea for traffic info and they're generally quite low by this point.
Air/ground are mostly very good, if occasionally given to sarcasm.
Landing fees are paid in the refuelling "hut" and are fairly typical.
Cafe is reasonable, very friendly and portions are large! It's only a pity there's no runway view.
The microlight club also have an R/C model aircraft shop if that's your bag.
It's definitely worth doing a bimble round Gower itself either on leaving or arriving. Local sightseeing traffic will tend to call "clockwise" or "anti-clockwise" and an altitude so everyone knows roughly what's going on.
One or two spots not marked on the maps tend to get used as unofficial reporting points. "Three Cliffs Bay" (easy to spot, the clue's in the name) just south of the airfield, and "Whitford Point", the disused lighthouse on the northernmost tip of the pennisula.
If you want to get into Swansea or out on Gower on the ground, the "green buses" that do the beaches and the circular tour stop right outside the airfield -- but only if you jump up and down like a maniac and wave at them. Otherwise they leave you standing there like a muppet. It's the 118 service. Day ticket is four quid and cheaper than almost any individual journey. Timetables etc are on the [url=http://www.countrygoer.org/wales/gowerexplorer.html]Gower Explorer page[/url]
There are footpaths all over Gower and one or two skirt right along the airfield boundary. The routes are gorgeous but signage varies from intermittent to non-existent, you'll want an OS map or similar.
"Let's go flying"
Scribblings of a novice PPL
Scribblings of a novice PPL