The Realities of Rural Flying.

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4 ай бұрын

Come and join my on a flight from Andrewsfield to the rough little farm strip at Easton Maudit with a cool controlled airspace crossing of London Stansted's Class D on a beautiful mid-summers evening.
So strap yourself in, because here we go.
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My name is Terry Kent and I am a General Aviation PPL private pilot operating out of Andrewsfield EGSL about 25 miles to the north east of London in the UK. Short Field is my channel focused on the lighter side of General Aviation including flight and airfield reviews, equipment unboxing and review plus all things private pilot related. I use various cameras to record my videos including GoPro and Insta 360 and stills and edit them in Adobe Premiere Pro, I am an animator as well and often use animations to describe situations more clearly I use Blender and Adobe After Effects for these. I always attempt to post my videos in the highest possible quality, normally 4k.
I fly a 2011 Pipersport two seat single engine aircraft that is also known as the PS28 or SportCruiser in the USA (America) it is known under the FAA as an LSA or Light Sport Aircraft and can be flown on a very basic license. In the UK it is a Part 21 airplane which requires a full licence but it's generally cheap to run, affordable maintenance and great value for money. It cruises at 100 to 105 knots and has superb short take off and landing or STOL capabilities. I visit farm strips, back country and short airfields, some of them dangerous and I try not to crash :-), as well as international airports and try to learn something new every time I fly.
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@peanuts2105 4 ай бұрын

Love England in the summer. Those beautiful fields of gold roll by your window as you fly over. And when you land at your remote field, the warm breeze washes over you to be accompanied by a singing Skylark overhead is just bliss

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Lovely comment, thank you.

@FlyingDarkLord 4 ай бұрын

God I miss weather like this 😢 A great video to keep our spirits up, thanks Terry 👍🏼

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Geoff.

@grahamlees4394 4 ай бұрын

Hi Terry. When I was based at EGSL Sunday evenings were always a hive of activity during the summer. The bar was open and quite a gathering of spectators assembled in front of the club house to watch local based aircraft doing aeros over the field and late returners from further afield. How things have changed....

@davebuggins2198 4 ай бұрын

You can’t beat strip flying on a lovely summers evening, this winter has gone on far too long, roll on blue skies, light winds and dry strips. Another Great quality video Terry.👍😎

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

I know Dave, I bet even your place has been US at points during this winter.

@johammond400 4 ай бұрын

This is what UK aviation is all about! God I can’t wait until summer flying weather, particularly on a grim day like today. Great video as always Terry.

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Couldn't agree more! Thank you so much.

@rolandsinclair-brown2970 3 ай бұрын

Back in 2019 22 June to be precise, Remember delivering a X-AIR G-BZHJ to East Maudit stopping at Castle Bythan (another interesting Airfield for your logbook, coming in over the chalk pits "interesting") because my passenger needed the tiolet, back on our way we landed East Maudit to be met by Andy in is Helicopter 😊 for the return back to N/Coates via Fenland for our dinner then flying over Winglands to wave to Jenny (makes lovely lemon cakes) along the the shore line over the Wash we're at low tide you an see Landing craft in the sand, all in all a good days flying ood

@briansnell9179 4 ай бұрын

That looked like a lovely evening flight. I'm looking forward to sunny evenings like that one. Really getting tired of the consistent rain and waterlogged runways we have had for many weeks now, especially in the south.

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

You and me both Brian, at least we are on the right side of winter.

@LeeRussell 3 ай бұрын

The radar controllers for Stansted are brilliant. A nice early call to them and at worse a couple of orbits..... across you go! Nice video Terry.

@ShortField 3 ай бұрын

I agree, thanks Lee.

@geoffreycoan 4 ай бұрын

Lovely summer flight Terry. Such a shame some GA airfields close in the evening - one airfield I was at there were signs up proudly announcing “late summer evening flying” to 7:00pm ! Easton Maudit, another strip near to me I’ve not been to. Grr

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Geoffrey, we lose so many flying days in the winter months it should be law that we get SR to SS flying during the summer.

@LetsGoFlying 4 ай бұрын

Ahhhhhh a flashback of better weather! Just what I needed!

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Roll them on. Thanks Nick.

@GolfFoxtrot22 3 ай бұрын

Its always cool to over fly the runway ;).

@Orzorn 4 ай бұрын

Looks like a beautiful summer afternoon, absolutely perfect. I need to get into my local club and get back to flying.

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

You should! Thank you.

@InducedBank 4 ай бұрын

Fantastic Terry - certainly a bumpy runway, but I guess that's just as you say, just a part of the reality of it - and part of the charm/challenge/adventure 😁 Only 5 weeks left now until the clocks change and evening flying is back on 😁😁😁

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Yes need spring right now Mike.

@sahhull 4 ай бұрын

Theres quite a few rough grass strips around the UK. Its when they stay open during the damp seasons that really churns them up. PPL(H) FTW. Unless I approach across a dry cut straw field and make the dust fly :-)

@Colin_Holloway 4 ай бұрын

I love your flights. Thank you for sharing. Sitting at my desk here in Queensland, Australia, your flights are the perfect mental escape!

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Oh thank you so much Colin, that flight was in the summer and it was almost Aussie weather.

@jonathannewman673 4 ай бұрын

I was in a Jodel syndicate with the owner of the strip and one other. It's a delightful place to fly from and the Jodel coped with the bumps well. But to find a day with the wind down the strip was remarkably lucky. With the orientation (dictated by the local geography) it's a great place to practice crosswind techniques.

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Tim was lovely and he told me all about the Jodel.

@jbot6902 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for another awesome video !

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

No thank you for the great support.

@GunniesLetsFlyVFR 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic as always .. !

@manuinsinger 3 ай бұрын

Man o man, I love your flying vids!!

@ShortField 3 ай бұрын

Thank you sir. 👍

@VRFlightSimGuy 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic flight thanks so much for sharing

@porkorosso7885 4 ай бұрын

What a beautiful evening flight. perfect!

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

It really was Vince, need this weather now :-)

@sarahcolliver7650 4 ай бұрын

That a smile to my face😊. Just so lovely

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Sarah.

@boblethbridge6292 3 күн бұрын

Lovely little flight, but your airstrips are plentyful and smooth by Aussie rural standards!

@107nthGalaxy 4 ай бұрын

what an awesome video! many thanks enjoyed that

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Thank you so much.

@kevchilton908 4 ай бұрын

Very timely and just what I needed, Terry! I'd almost forgotten those beautiful summer evenings (my preferred time of day to fly) and what it's all about. The Rockwell is awaiting parts from the US (a familiar story) before we can get her out of service, and flying seems a long way away. A great video, you looked as though you really enjoyed the trip. Thank you for reminding me why I do it 😆👌🏻👍🏻

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Perfect! Thanks Kev.

@flyingmissionary 4 ай бұрын

Looked like a nice, relaxing evening flight Terry 👍🏼

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Thanks Dollar 👍

@ess64cee 4 ай бұрын

Nice one, Terry. That helped see us through a wet February evening ! Cheers. 👌

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

So need summer again. Thank you.

@JodelFlyer 4 ай бұрын

Nice one Terry and looking forward to the summer and those longer, lighter evenings!

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Me too Tim, Nayland needs to be re-visited for a cuppa.

@joshuaarcher5404 4 ай бұрын

Great video as ever been a subscriber for a while now.Please come down to headcorn we have great facilities and I would love to see that video

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

That would be cool! Thank you.

@trytolookbusy 4 ай бұрын

I’m just about to do some airport hopping around the East Coast of the United States in my sky master. And I just have to say I absolutely love your videos! You do such a good job with the production quality. Maybe we’ll get lucky and see you at Oshkosh this year

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much for the kind words. Oshkosh would be amazing, I need to do it at some point. You are awesome.

@dasautopilot7097 4 ай бұрын

great video! i cant wait for the weather to be like this again.

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Same here!

@DeadReckoner 4 ай бұрын

Another great video Terry! I flew abeam that field a couple of days ago on a CPL nav out of Gloucester in a DA42 :)

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Very cool Scott!

@mrsaskriders 3 ай бұрын

Nice video.

@ShortField 3 ай бұрын

Many many thanks

@peteralan5557 4 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🙂

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Pete.

@keithhendrickson8522 3 ай бұрын

Owner books it out to the runway, probably to make sure he gets that landing fee.

@markallisonparamotor 4 ай бұрын

Great video, ah I remember Summer flying, I dream about it all the time. I'm wondering if Easton Maudit would allow paramotors in at some point, looks lovely and reachable from my airfield. Interesting that they route you over the threshold. What happens if a landing aircraft aborts the landing and needs to go around for some reason before reaching the threshold?

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

My graphic is a little wrong as you would probably be asked to hold short if there was an aircraft on final in an area that a go-around would cause a confliction. It's in the middle of nowhere so I don't think you would upset anyone, I'll give you Tim (the owners) number Mark.

@flyingkub 4 ай бұрын

I think that is one of the advantages of my slow little Kub as I would only cover a third of the bumps. 🙂

@ShortField 4 ай бұрын

Loads of advantages Algy, that great little plane is amazing.

@flyingkub 3 ай бұрын

@@ShortFieldIt really is a very forgiving, fun, little machine.

@Lukeflips 2 ай бұрын

Do you ever find ATC of controlled airspace’s sound visibly annoyed at smaller aircraft crossing?

@ShortField 2 ай бұрын

Sorry for the late reply. I always think that but no, they treat all VFR traffic the same, I hope :-)

@CalmingAnxiety 4 ай бұрын

Simply perfect. Ive just returned to paramotoring to fix that flying itch but now.... sold 50% of my old home (divorce...) and wondering.... do I return to some proper flying....

@sahhull 4 ай бұрын

When I see this... It makes me glad I never married and never had kids.

@FlyingDarkLord 4 ай бұрын

NPPL… do it! 👍🏼