Ozplane,

Thanks for calling in, it was much appreciated.

The final count was 107 visitors with around 15 making it in on Saturday night for the party.

Thanks to everyone who made the event a success, especially the volunteers without whom we could not operate.

Cheers

Steve

Neil – the guys and gals at BBMF (especially Al Pinner and Jeanette) were all a great help. Landing at Coningsby and taxiing in to see so many people waiting for us was one of the highlights of the trip. The air traffic team were also very helpful both inbound and outbound.

Trapper 69 and Mike – many thanks for your comments.

Mike, glad you like the mag – I note you’re based at EGTK… in that case you may have seen G-AYEE that we used for the flight? She’s covered in our sponsors logos and somebody in EGTK tower commented that it looked like she’d been caught up an ‘explosion at a sticker factory’!!

If you get chance to come across to Pilot Flight Training sometime do come and say hello to the D2D team – most of whom are based there.

Cheers

Steve

Squirrel / Janie,

Thought you might be interested to hear how we got on?

Despite a two and three quarter hour delay due to fog at Oxford we finally got airborne at 07.15 to Coventry. We then spent a while on the ground at Coventry waiting for the haze to clear.

As the weather improved we vowed to complete as much of the flight as possible and – by just after 9pm last night we’d visited 14 airfields!

Total of 9.7hrs logged as far north as Blackpool and as far south as Goodwood.

It was an amazing day – one that Louise and I will remember forever.

Hopefully we also raised a lot of publicity for Flying Scholarships for the Disabled too.

Thank you to everyone who supported the flight – as well as everyone in our ops team and at the airfields who worked so hard yesterday to make sure it went as well as it did. You were all stars!

Cheers

Steve

I seem to recall there was an article in Today’s Pilot’s December issue called ‘Going Places – Wolverhampton Airport’… It was written by somebody called Bridgewater…!

In it he mentioned that the cafe had been completely refurbished and the airport was keen to promote itself to the GA community through fly-outs and fly-ins.

I also recall it mentioning that the Green was in the process of opening a new (unlicensed) grass runway.

Anyways – they seemed like a friendly bunch who were keen to receive visitors.

It wasn’t a bad article by all accounts…

Cheers

Steve

Steve Bridgewater
Assistant Editor – Today’s Pilot

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Deano 777,

Thanks for the invite, I’ll try my best to be at the forum fly-in – assuming work doesn’t get in the way. I’ll keep watching this thread and see what you’ve got planned.

It’ll be nice to meet some forum ‘faces’ at Tollerton on August 27 and at your own fly-in too.

Cheers

Steve

Stephen Bridgewater
Assistant Editor / Fly-In Co-ordinator
Today’s Pilot Magazine
[email]stephen.bridgewater@keypublishing.com[/email]

Hi Janie,

Glad you could make it at short notice – only sorry I didn’t have more time to talk. Hope the flight to Leicester was good and the noise ‘amelioration’ procedures weren’t too complex!

When I next see Seagull I’ll ask him about the competition and find out who won!

Thanks again, see you soon

Steve

Steve Bridgewater
Assistant Editor – Today’s Pilot Magazine