Members' Stories

We would love to hear of your flying experiences and would be more than happy to publish them to this webiste, whether you would like to share safety tips or great flying experiences. Just drop us an email with your story attached, with your permission to publish the story and we would be happy to up the website.

• ANDARK Diving Centre
  On Friday 7th March a group of Old Sarum Flying Club Members went to Andark Diving Centre to be ‘DUNKED’. Read on...
  
  
• Boscombe Down Fly Out
  by Tony Horton
  
  Old Sarum Flying Club Members were invited to fly out to Boscombe Down to see the Empire Test Pilots School and to have a tour of the Air Traffic facilities at Boscombe. Read on...
  
  
• 14 Days in Romania
  by Neville Stops
  
  The Flying Farmers Association is a group of people with the common interests of both flying and farming. Linked is a short diary account of a recent trip we undertook. Read on...
  
  
• North by Southwest
  by Peter Todd
  
  A short poem. Read on...
  
  
• Our European Tour 2006
  by Mike Elborn

The plan was for myself and Adrian to depart Old Sarum in GTORC on Friday 26 May and meet Alan, flying from Wycombe Air Park in an Archer, and Malcolm and Vic flying from Fowlmere, also in an Archer, in Antwerp. We were then to route, via Allendorf (Eder), to Berlin Tempelhof, Kunovice in the Czech Republic to visit Evektor, Budapest, Klagenfurt (Austria), Venice (San Nicolo), Albenga, Nimes, Carcassonne, Toulouse to visit Airbus, Le Mans for the 24 Hour Practice weekend and then back to UK on Sunday 4 June. Well it didn’t happen this way! Read on...

• Open Day - A Huge Success
  by Simon Birt

3rd September saw the Old Sarum Open Day. The day started with low cloud and rain with a brisk wind. Undaunted the Old Sarum team lead by Vicky de Candole ignored the weather and prepared the airfield for the public. As the rain fell steadily and the wind blew the first guests began to arrive. Just when it seemed that months of planning were being slowly washed down the drain the rain stopped and a small patch of blue sky appeared. Minutes later a C42, flown by Rick Connell was airbourne. Read on...

• A New Zealand adventure
  by Geoff Prout

The highest terrain I ever cross is Snowdon in Wales at 3,600 feet therefore a week of mountain flying in the Fiordland of South Island New Zealand seemed very exciting. We had visited these stunningly beautiful (Lord of the Rings) islands previously but had only done a couple of rather short flights Read on...

• AFFORDABLE flying has truly arrived in the UK
  by Steve Hunt

...thanks to the introduction of the National Private Pilot's Licence and a new breed of ulta-light high performance aeroplanes. Which is great news for budding pilots such as myself! Read on...