I have to say, Jean-Louis and his wife are the ideal couple to be running this place. I’ve been a few times now and both the welcome and the meal were fantastic – and good value too.

I do have my reservations about the airpark idea though. A little bird tells me that the original plans have been changed, and JL is now only offering 5 year rentals on building plots with no security of tenure. It would be a brave girl that built her dreamhome on a plot of land that she might no longer have any rights to in 5 years time.

This time, plans are rather better developed, so my friend close to the Marshall family tells me. Expect to see rather a lot of pokey little houses on 23/05 within the next few years. That’ll make for even longer queues getting off the A14 in the morning.

Oh well!

For those that care, the Cirrus doesn’t actually have a Prop lever, just a throttle and mixture. That has tricked some people into thinking that it has some sort of FADEC-controlled prop. In reality, it still has a VP prop but the prop control is mechanically linked to the throttle. The resulting high RPM in the cruise does raise the cabin noise level a bit. Just as well most Cirrus seemed to come with Bose-x heasets plumbed in.

Is the runway open again yet? What is the update?