They would have known your times from the PPR request, no?
ATC sounded nice when I spoke to them on the phone, too.
Graham wrote:
@quatrelle looks like you got hard surface parking?
I think that it helped filing a FP both ways so they knew exactly when I was arriving and departing, I know that if I had stayed longer than 4.5 hours it would have been the grass, but that looked to be in good shape so it would not have been so bad.
ATC were really helpful (bit like Alderney) so that helps a lot.
@quatrelle looks like you got hard surface parking?
Do they consider a Jetprop fancy enough that they don’t call it ‘GA’? ;-)
How long you stayed there at Lands End, just a swim?
quatrelle wrote:
over Heathrow
Looks running a decent capacity given “the situation” !
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.
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
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.
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)
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.
This is a bit old but