The best UK airfield diner - The Flying Reporter

[Music] hello from the flying reporter i'm away from home with bertie at the moment for easter so this video is a bit more rough and ready than you might be used to this flight was a recent one good friday in fact and i met up with friends for lunch clear prop it was a busy day three takeoffs and landings for zone transit and this film is a bit more like a traditional vlog a day in the life of the flying reporter if you like this is retro aerodrome information romeo time zero eight five zero hours automatic runway in use two six left red hill tower golf bravo mike india victor outbound with romeo qnh1026 message got brother mikey victor one on board parked opposite the tower request taxi via fire flight to tourist going a bit through man we've got no fuel back here [Music] roger taxi alpha one score three seven six seven golfing okay so we're going off to tourist and to get some fuel and then we're going off to gamston that wasn't the plan but as you heard on the radio just then red hill has run out of fuel um i last refueled la rochelle thankfully india victor's tanks are fairly generous i've got uh 30 minutes flying to towerstone 15 liters for taxi and uh take off and descent now for one quick run up here [Applause] [Music] [Applause] here [Music] departure not above altitude 1 400 feet gold brother mikey victor coming to victor runway two six left when calm clear take off good take off runway two six left on two basic services is increasing so coffee victor buckland request frequency change file brazil 133 decimal four four zero coming to square constructed free call farm bro bye support consecutive good morning golf brother mike in the inventor pa28ro red hill 2 tourist and vfr one eight miles to the east south east of you altitude two thousand two hundred feet qnh one zero two six uh requester routing through the zone to the east of the atcz guilford to whitley dolphin defector qnh1026 basic service squawk zero four six zero okay one zero two six basic service score zero four six zero go ahead golf brother mike india victor you are cleared to cross the farmer control zone vfr a lot altitude two thousand feet routine guilford to woodley fit cross fiber controlled airspace vfr not above altitude two thousand feet rooting guild for the woodley gold brother mike in the victim perhaps quite quickly quickly uh beginning our descent now for our crossing radar tango lovely day it's nice and smooth up here today no wind for gold probably a bit bumpy later it's going to be quite a warm day i'm feeling the bumps as i say just out of reading altitude 2200 qnh 1026 reaching blackbush to cambridge essentially this is a trial flight for a couple of new gopros that i've bought um also trialling the power installation we've got usb sockets in the airplane so i'm trying to power those now and uh seeing how we go with those basically getting as near as i can a permanent camera installation to save time and distractions um when i uh fly so uh lovely day you can see for miles and miles i flew the other day without my my normal paperwork that i carry with me i thought oh just i'll fly with it as i you know without it i'll use i used a sky demon plug and then on the way back i didn't really have very much by way of paperwork and i found it really difficult because i'm used to my habits i'm used to knowing where the information is little notes radar control radar control victor going through the extended center line mark off with the victor victor reset squawk zero four three three zero four three three golfing evictor victory contact me one two five decimal two five zero one two five two five zero golden emitter h1027 basic service q a one zero two seven basic service gold media individual running outside controlled airspace no atc altitude restriction so basically today we're going up to the plan was to go to gamston i was going to go direct to again gamster but as you heard with the fuel um i'm stopping at turbostone instead to get fuel from there and um meeting up with john my you you're probably used to him now on the channel in his tb10 and john is flying with sean and i think sean's brother and we'll go up to gamston we've booked a table at the restaurant there we've tried to get in there a few times but they've been fully booked and uh looking at white waltham over there but today they have space so that's all good i thought i'd go too high because we then got to come back down in 26 miles but i just want to get a bit of height away from the bimbling traffic below me victor request frequency change to western radio one two two decimal one even zero [Applause] to western radio good morning golf bravo mikey new victor one four miles to the south inbound request aerodrome information to join for runway two seven right qf's one zero one two two seven right qfe one zero one skirt to the left of thin mirror a little bit breaks undercarriage it's down three grains mixture is rich fuel is on the tank of the fullest radios tuned landing light copy victor final runway 2-7 to land uh airport information and joining instructions sorry there's two stations at once there i believe it was individual just turning fine on service windows light and variable runway you save some back for me do you so we've just put in 176 liters of fuel my tanks take 272 so it's just uh just under 100 liters we've landed here which is about two hours fuel so actually we've done quite well there we have loads of fuel so no problems at all but i'm full up now so that'll keep me going for a bit i've got a coffee now uh just talking to chris in the tower he says that actually a number of people flying has gone down quite a bit recently he thinks because of the cost of fuel cost of uh living it's not surprising isn't it i mean it really has skyrocketed i think they're charging about two pound 13 a liter including that here which is actually competitive so uh yeah it's uh worrying times for everyone isn't it worrying times good thanks thank you goldfinivic's only point charlie ready for departure doesn't even know in effect you're lining up after the landing page lining up two seconds are you happy yep well good cool mike india victor this service has been suddenly five knots runway is now vacant taking off runway two seven goblin victim my headset battery is a bit low i think seems very noisy t's and peas are in the green so help me look out for traffic if you see anything tell me where it is on my clock face 12 o'clock so on okay golfing invictus clear to the north and uh changing to east midlands radar one three four decimal one eight zero roger have a nice trick john thanks for that height you need to kind of be at there is a standard but you do have non-standard aerodromes as well okay so it's not always the same you have to read up and see what they're doing okay temperatures and pressures are all okay we'll turn the landing light off we've got the flaps up we've got the gear east midlands radar golf bravo mike india victor request zone transit and basic service golf father mike indian victorians radar remain outside controlled airspace score four five five four and five four five five four golf brother mikey victor pa 28 arrow to weston to gamston bfr uh presently three miles north of uh delta tango yankee altitude three thousand three hundred feet one zero two six request transit basic service basic service 1026 requested routine by echo mike echo coffee victor standing by got right so we'll introduce you to my flying reporter video audiences um this is richard he's a short brother sean we've flown with a few times [Music] are you playing with sean a few times good enjoy it enjoy it's great yeah really enjoy it what do you do for work man um we sell irrigation systems okay for farmyard farms and yeah yeah sort of high-end irrigation drip systems [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] rivers beautiful during the summer so it's kind of yeah we've [Music] yeah just in different towns which are quite nice i quite fancy it i should take my son kayaking although probably it's good cap sizing and something ridiculous and there's quite a good i mean where we are in bedford there's there's quite a good loop i mean you can i mean you could kayak all the way to the wash if you really wanted to but north bed which is stunning really really quiet eastern controlled airspace not above altitude three thousand five hundred feet cfr routine by the echo there's a transit east midlands controlled airspace not above 3500 feet bfr uh via akamai kengo goldfield confidentiality correct and keep a lookout for traffic just to the north east of you possible glide and now high information i wasn't sure whether to go flying today i really fancy coming to this restaurant it's it's quite um it's got a reputation um we'll see whether that's uh justified good afternoon we've tried to get here a few times sort of on the far side of where that brown field is and there's lots of aircraft going in there looking at the map here i quite fancy against the coast uh this weekend but it's going to be so big the first sign of sunshine and yeah road to be rammed weren't they yeah just got back from thailand uh last week so that was nice i was visiting an old school friend over there where in thailand did you get um raider control girl when you're victor sorry whereabouts so my friend lives up near konken which is up north north east um so we stayed there for a few days um and then down to kochang and then back up to bangkok for a couple of days so thailand is amazing the people are so friendly the food is just wonderful my favorite country i have to say i say so yeah that's uh east midlands airport over there okay i might just see the runway how long how long is the flight time to get to where we're going now we landed one three four nine five [Music] [Applause] away from your victim helicopter so i'm going to listen really carefully now i won't talk very much about november starts roger surface wind 210 degrees less than five knots capsule radio golf bravo bike individual 11 miles to the south west inbound request join golf brother mike indian victor campson radio pass your message right hand circuit qfe1024 qp1024 uh request q and h and uh two one right hand circuit copy convicted q h one zero two seven one zero two seven see the runway over there actually about uh five miles away just light in line with the runway now and that way i'm gonna get the gear down now to slow me down with the alpha holding up bravo ready for departure season golf whiskey alfa rogers nothing known to affect your backtrack tuna golf whisky alpha backtracking 2-1 visual the uh the helicopter are down coffee victor entering the 80z from the south joining downwind right hand 2-1 golf into victor roger break break golf bravo hotel delta echo games and radio apache message the we are currently just to the west of newark on trent request airfield information echo roger runway two one right hand circuit qfe one zero two four two one right and one zero two four goal field for a helicopter steven golf alpha roger surface wind two zero zero degrees seven knots golfing victor midpoint downwind two one right hand to land the foxtrot final for runway two one uh all over the place [Music] so we enjoyed our arrival here into gamston um it wasn't too busy at all by the time we got here it sounded like it might be busy but it was all right and john's just landed in the tb10 so we're gonna go and try some lunch well you you did get five points for landing first yeah but sadly he didn't read the rules and as you transitive controlled airspace you need to lose ten points so i'm actually lost what do you mean i lose ten points to do control this oh he saw you oh that's not allowed is it not do you not know that you're worrying me there for a minute i thought i'd done something wrong no well you have yes but um i cheated this is what i'm having pork doesn't that look nice john's having a sandwich healthy option i think the healthiest richard's having salmon that looks lovely with asparagus and you're having a sandwich as well [Laughter] isn't it nice here i have to say that the lunch i had at gamston was probably one of the best ga airfield meals i've had here in the uk wow that was a lovely meal at gamston it's rare to go to a uh an airport an aerodrome ga air driver the setting was lovely service was great food was amazing so happy with that there are some close runners up the pilot's hub at red hill is another favorite of mine and norms and debs at earl's cone do a mean cheeseburger but for its ambience the service and the food top marks to the apron cafe and bakery you wait i'll be doing food reviews next i took the direct route back to red hill landing on runway one eight that's all for this episode thank you for watching fly safely my friends you

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Length: 23min 13sec (1393 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 22 2022