Farm strip flying

Farm strip flying

There are a huge number of privately owned air strips around the UK which can be used by GA pilots with prior permission. They may provide convenient access for visits to friends, hotels, spas, restaurants, stately homes, the races or auction rooms. Private strips range from undemanding flat airfields of billiard table smoothness, to rough fields dotted with cow-pats, sloping runways, and airfields with challenging approaches. We will examine how to discover where these fields are, how to plan a flight to such air-strips. We will practice short-field techniques at a larger airfield before attempting approaches and landings at several different strips. We can tailor the course to the kind of airfield you plan to visit. All this will give you confidence to make your own flights.

These course briefing notes indicate some of the aspects to consider:

You should also read the CAA’s Safety Sense Leaflet 12.