After one false start which resulted in a postponement due to lingering fog, Saturday the 24th January was the first in the planned busy schedule of North Weald Flying Group fly outs for 2009. The destination was Old Sarum (EGLS), a 800m grass strip 2 miles NNE of Salisbury in Wiltshire which nestles nicely inside […]
Saturday the 6th of December was scheduled to be the last major North Weald Flying Group fly out of 2008 and amazingly the TAFs were pretty good. The day started well with a blue sky but typically a slight haze with the low winter sun. The destination was originally planned to be Goodwood, but a
Saturday the 18th October was scheduled for this year’s navigation competition fly-out ‘Bomber Day 2008’. Following on from last year’s highly successful and very enjoyable day, the idea is a back to basics navigation exercise with a slightly competitive edge. Various ‘targets’ which had been previously photographed were emailed to the competing crews, and then
Thursday the 19th June was the day re-scheduled for the North Weald Fly Out Group’s trip to RNAS Yeovilton in Somerset. I say re-scheduled, in fact it had been postponed from June 2007 when the South West was being battered by very high winds and storms. The weather in the early part of our week
Following on from the highly enjoyable group fly out to RAF Marham, our next destination was somewhat closer, but also extremely interesting. The 3rd May brought more good weather which was a bonus as it was the date of the ‘Pilot’ and ‘Go Flying!’ magazine open day fly in to which the North Weald Flying
When Gordon Horscraft approached me in ‘The Squadron’ at North Weald Airfield several months ago and asked if the North Weald Flying Group would be interested in joining a couple of other aircraft on a weekend trip to Koblenz in Germany it only took a nano second for me to say ‘yes’, and thereby volunteered
Friday the 25th April was the planned day for the North Weald Flying Group’s visit to RAF Marham near Kings Lynn in Norfolk. RAF Marham is the UK’s largest fast jet station operating four squadrons of Tornado GR4/As in various roles. Several months of letter writing, email exchanges and telephone calls had culminated in twenty
After one false start on the 6th Jan due to weather, the North Weald Fly Out Group managed to complete their first outing of 2007 in near perfect winter weather. It was the reasonably conservative destination of Lydd given the expected weather and short daylight hours at this time of the year. Three from North
With the Fly Out to the old Red Arrows base of Kemble having been cancelled on the 8th December due to the appalling weather over that weekend we had another try on Sunday the 16th. The sky was clear that morning and the TAFs reasonable with various levels of visibility forecast along the route. We
Once again we were very lucky with the weather for our November fly out. It could have been better but at least it was flyable and the patchy low cloud and slightly hazy conditions made the days task that little more interesting. November the 3rd was to be the second fly out with a difference
