The Diary

Events taking place over the next few weeks are as follows. Please check in advance of travel to ensure event is taking place especially during poor weather .

   

 

SHOREHAM

The guys at Shoreham have sent me a list of their events for the year, so something more to add for your future planning.

A number of Fly-Ins have now been confirmed for Shoreham in an attempt to try and get us back on the map and have some good old fashion gatherings as we did a number of years ago, Details as follows:



2013



Sat 6th/Sun 7th July Brighton Rock Fly-In with evening entertainment (Foreign Aero Clubs being invited)

Sat 21st/Sun 22nd September Vintage Fly-In with evening entertainment

Sat 2nd/Sun 3rd November Halloween & Guy Fawkes Fly-In with evening entertainment

Sun 8th December Pre Christmas Fly-In

 

Now the list of UK events in calender order:         

APRIL                         

24th to 27th Aero Friedrichshafen, Germany

28th Southend Airport Visit the Vulcan

 

MAY

4th  Evening Air Show, Old Warden

4th & 5th Microlight Trade Fair, Popham

4th & 5th Aerobatics, Sleap

5th Fly in, Breighton ( see nor=te elsewhere re access)

11th & 12th Fly in, North Coates

12th Fly in, Popham

17th to 19th Aerobatics, Fenland

18th to 19th Vintage Fly in, Old Buckenham

25th Vintage Club and US Classics Fly in, Sywell

26th IWM Spring Air Show, Duxford

26th LAA Andover Strut Fly in, Popham

31st to 2nd June, AeroExpo 2013, Sywell

JUNE

1st Aerobatics, Little Gransden

2nd June Fly in, Breighton ( see link re access)

8th Seafront Airshow, Folkestone

9th RAFA airshow, Cosford

9th Vans Fly in, Popham

9th Airshow, Welshpool

 

 

 

 

                             

 

 

             

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Old Buckenham Events

Many of you enjoy a trip to Old Buckenham so undernoted are their list of events for 2013 to help with your forward planning 

2013 

January 6^th – The Winter Fly In. Open to all aircraft and classic cars. Last year the Winter Fly In made Old Buck one of the busiest airfields in the country.

February 17^th – The Valentines Fly In. Once again the air will be thick with romance and avgas.

March 17^th – The LAA and Homebuilt Spring Extravaganza. Over 100 aircraft are expected for this celebration of home built engineering. We’re also celebrating

April 21^st – American Taildraggers. Celebrating the airfields status as a USAAF base, we honour the taildraggers that were used in WWII, along with the iconic machines that came afterwards.

May 18^th & 19^th – The Vintage Weekend. A celebration of everything vintage, we’ll have special displays of pre 1965 vehicles, aircraft and stalls. Saturday night will see a WWII themed hangar dance.

June 22^nd & 23^rd-  The Old Buckenham Airshow 2013. www. oldbuckenhamairshow.co.uk

July 21^st – The American Fly In. We honour the airfields first occupants, the USA, with a celebration of American machinery.

August 18^th – The Military Fly In. Military aircraft of all eras are welcome, with the vehicles of the East England Military Museum on the ground.

September 8^th – The LAA & Homebuilt Autumn Fly In. Another chance to celebrate homebuilt wonders.

October 4^th – 6^th Military Revival. For more information see www.militaryrevival.com

November 10^th, Remembrance Sunday. Wings and Wheels. Our now traditional Remembrance Service around the 453^rd Bomb Group Memorial punctuates this day of classic cars, military vehicles and aircraft of all types.

December 15^th – The Christmas Fly In. We finish the year by having an open event for all aircraft, with a good mix of classic cars to boot. 

Access to Breighton

Note, that although we are welcome at Breighton, access is only possible by becoming a member of their Museum Club. This costs £25.00 per annum (about £5.00 per fly-in) and you can bring friends and family along too and visit any weekend, not just on the fly-in dates. Access to all areas is allowed for logging and photograping the aircraft. See www.realaero.com for further details

Ports of Call and Google Earth

Google Earth Map Download - Clarification


The current instructions for downloading the Ports of Call Google Earth Map have resulted in some confusion when you are faced with a page of coding. A revision is being considered. In the meantime, follow these steps:

- click the globe icon on the main Ports of Call page
- click the globe icon on the Google Earth map Download page. You will get a page full of html coding starting with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

ignore the coding, just
- click "File"
- click "Save Page as"
- a dialogue box opens for you to choose which folder you want to save the file "ukairfields.kml" in (e.g. "My Documents")
- choose the folder that you want to save it in, then click "Save"
- either close the page of html coding or click the 'back' arrow of your browser twice to return to the main Ports of Call page
- go into the folder you chose (e.g. "My Documents")
- double-click "ukairfields.kml"

If you have done this, Google Earth should open and display the UK full of coloured markers.The airfields are listed down the side. Those with additional notes under them are underlined. You can double-click any airfield name in the list - it doesn't have to be underlined - to have the map zoom into that airfield.

Enjoy.

Any problems, please advise us on pocmapping@laasdata.com

Ports of Call, Websites

PORTS OF CALL WEBSITE ADDITIONS

Internet links to local spotters websites and guides to locations to spot from, are now being added to airfield pages.

If you know of any that can be added to those already included, could you please send them to pocmapping@laasdata.com

Ports of Call update

NEW - Ports of Call Website Developments

 

Three new developments have recently been added to the Ports of Call pages of this website:

(see also further development regarding websites at bottom of section)

 

1.    An ‘Airfield Search’ box has been added to make it easier to find an airfield using part of the name e.g. searching for ‘Cater’ will give 3 possible airfields at Caterham, or where a similar name is attached to different airfields e.g. searching for ‘Manor Farm’ will give a list of  22 possible airfields to select from.

 

2.   A Google Earth map can be downloaded to show the location of 920 airfields, together with the number of aircraft based there and whether an airfield is a dedicated one for gliders, helicopters, microlights or autogyros, or has a relatively large proportion of such types.

 

3.  A set of 920 airfield locations (the same ones on the Google Earth map) for downloading onto a TomTom satnav to enable an airfield to be selected for automatic  driving directions. Note that the airfield position is not that of the entrance but a point on the runway so you need to check the map on the airfield page of the website to make the necessary final corrections for your journey.

 

Please read the accompanying notes for the map and TomTom developments when you use them.

 

We would be grateful for any comments, criticisms, suggestions that you may have on the Google earth map e.g  its presentation, clarity or usefulness of the different features. Similarly for the TomTom data, and if you have a different satnav e.g a Garmin, and would like to help us to provide a file that works with that satnav then please let us know.

 

This is the first issue of these developments and we have some ideas for further developments but we need to know what you really want. If you have ideas on how these developments can be improved, or ideas for other airfield information that would be useful to you and fellow enthusiasts, please let us know, at pocmapping@laasdata.com.

 

PORTS OF CALL WEBSITE ADDITIONS

Internet links to local spotters websites and guides to locations to spot from, are now being added to airfield pages.

If you know of any that can be added to those already included, could you please send them to pocmapping@laasdata.com

Access to Solent Flight / Lower Upham Airfield

Hi all,
  Regards to enthusiasts at Lower Upham airfield and the recent events, we have made a few changes.After talking to the owner it has been decided that it is unfair that one 'prat' should ruin it for everyone else who has an interest in aviation.With this in mind, we have set up an email address and request that anybody that wishes to visit will contact us  beforehand.Emails are checked every hour and there will be no need to wait for a reply but insist that you make yourself known to a member of Solent Flight staff beforewandering around the hanger.Please do not be upset if permission is refused on the odd occasion, as there could well be work in progress on an aircraft, but we will accomodate as much as possible.
 There will be, over the summer, a few more aircraft arriving for minor work, albeit only for short periods of time, and more visitors,  which we will keep you informed.As regards to the Taylorcraft, we still wish that you contact Darren first as they are not always going to be on site due to work progressing fast.
 Upon entering the car park the proper and ONLY entry is to turn left before the main gate and follow the path around the left hand side of the hanger.Solentflight offices are behind the hanger and will always have someone to speak to.Obviously if another person walks across an active apron, or even worse the runway, then a name will be taken and if found to be on this list he/she will be responsible for a blanket ban.
Email address is lowerupham@gmail.com  Heres hoping this is a sensible solution to what has happened.
Current resident list is as follows:-
G-CGTA      Taylorcraft BC-12 65     2598
G-CGTB      Taylorcraft BC-12D       8054
G-FLYC       Ikarus C-42                 0503-6656
G-GRWW    Robinson R-44            10382
G-SFLA       Ikarus C-42                 0701-6867
G-SFLB       Ikarus C-42                 0709-6914
G-TCEE       Hughes 369HS            610326S
N201W        Bell 47D1                    83
N5315V       Hiller UH-12C               757
 
Regards
 
Damian ( DCFI Solent Flight)

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