'live' airfield

Yes air testing happens and flights in and out worth parking up on the road behind the airfield overlooking the farmers field you get a nice view.

DX is open for flying from 10:00am to 16:00 at this time of year and generally 10:00 to 18:00 in the summer. Resident pilots/operators have a dispensation to arrive or depart outside of these times to fascilitate returning from airshows/or occasionally early departures to such events. It is generally unusual to find flying earlier than 10:00 as ATC don’t like early starts and like a liesurely breakfast and the magic fairies that put the aeroplanes nicely in pretty rows for the photographers don’t like them being made untidy by pilots taking planes away until after their 10am tea-break…;) Oh and pilots just don’t like getting up early as they apparently need all the beauty sleep they can get so that the ladies swoon over them and their dashing deeds…:rolleyes:

Private pilots soon bore of the standard £100 burger (Get in rented aeroplane, fly to another local airfield and land, eat burger in caff, return to aircraft, fly back to base, pay bill of about £100 total – In fact nearer £200 these days).

Venues like Duxford and Shuttleworth provide much more interesting destinations. So yes they are ‘live’ to some degree or another most of the year.

Roobarb is guilty of one serious piece of misinformation though. Pilots (or Sky Gods as is preferred) are uniformly devastatingly handsome*, even after a long night on the town servicing the needs of the eager doxies and rising at dawn to prepare for their dashing deeds.

Moggy

*Or beautiful in the case of lady pilots

😀 The last two posts are the funniest thing I’ve read on here in a while…. brilliant! :diablo:

Roobarb,and MoggyC, thank you so much for that ; it confirms what I thought whilst looking for my teeth,wig ,glasgows(rose-tinted), false leg and hearing aid this morning,or maybe the mirror(s) were steamed up…

they apparently need all the beauty sleep they can get

Which would be why devastatingly handsome engineers who don’t need beauty sleep would still be up late at night posting on forums, eh Roobs? 😀

Pilots (or Sky Gods as is preferred) are uniformly devastatingly handsome*, even after a long night on the town servicing the needs of the eager doxies and rising at dawn to prepare for their dashing deeds.

Moggy

*Or beautiful in the case of lady pilots

Undoubtedly to be followed by Breakfast and medals, no doubt 😉

You can have my bacon & eggs if I don’t make it 🙁

Moggy