Has anyone flown there recently and is it worth a visit?
I spoke to someone 3 days ago who goes there. He said plenty of hard surface parking, a very nice airport, and great walks in the vicinity around the cliffs.
I’ve been there recently. Don’t be put off by the website which makes it sound very complicated it actually works very well. Although the amount of staff they have working must cost a fortune.
This airport and EGHE (Scilly) make as much money out of the tourist traffic to the Scilly Isles as Bristol made out of the slave trade
They don’t need GA, and indeed EGHE does absolutely nothing for GA, so anything is a bonus.
EGHC has had millions of grants spent on it and looks really nice from the air. We might pop down there and rent a car. Is there car rental? If someone has been there, it would be really great to have a report on our database.
This is a bit old but
I have just used the magical device called a phone
No hard parking.
IAPs not available to GA – apparently this is a CAA stipulation…
Parking £18 below 1.5T, £30 1.5-3T, inc VAT.
The man says the grass is good and well drained.
There is nothing alive over there on Sundays
Peter wrote:
IAPs not available to GA
I only flew there in Turbulent D31 in gin clear sky, but given the kind of low clouds weather that appears there out of nowhere I don’t think having an IAP restricted to CAT is reasonable, especially as alternates on weekends are limited (Newquay long way back & Scillies no fuel & Culdrose they may go to sleep between Friday and Monday)
Peter wrote:
IAPs not available to GA – apparently this is a CAA stipulation…
No approach controller. So part of the Safety case to get the IAP approved must have been restriction to their own CAT so that the schedule is known and so they know for sure there is only one IFR a/c in the vicinity of the approach.
We went there today, ATC could not have been more helpful and found us some hard parking, as Peter says £30 landing/parking which is very reasonable, a few rules to stick to but thats expected when they have commercial operations, the last thing anyone wants is holiday makers wandering all over the place
We cycled to Lands End but you could easily walk both ways along the coast
On the way there
Nice beaches for surfers, thats Perranporth airfield top right
Lands End
Finals 07
First and last house in England
Plenty of decent walks around here
A paradise for surfers
Even the local church supports the surfers
Back at the airfield
On way back, over Southampton, airfield top right
The numbers if anyone is interested ?
over Heathrow
All in all, a good day out
Thanks for the report Quatrelle. Sounds great for a fly-in.
BTW I asked about car rental. There isn’t a “shop” there but some rental firm will deliver a car to the airport.